The European Robotics Week (ERW) offers one week of various robotics related activities across Europe for the general public. Through the organisation of over 700 events, Europeans get the opportunity to have their questions about how robots will impact the way we work, live, and learn, addressed. Every year the ERW changes the central event […]
This Saturday the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, one of Germany’s most important newspapers, published a half-page article about ECHORD and ECHORD++. The article features the projects ECHORD and ECHORD++ with all their instruments, some success stories and also shows that EU-Commissoner Oettinger holds the ECHORD scheme in high esteem. We were very proud to read that the […]
With the MARS research project, the company AGCO/Fendt and the Hochschule Ulm have developed small robot units which, with the assistance of a cloud-based solution, can be controlled independent of location during sowing operations. Sowing operations can be planned and monitored at any time using the MARS app. The exact placement of each individual seed […]
The EU-funded project ROBOTT-NET recently asked us to spread the word about their Open Labs, coming up in October and November 2017. These events will promote state-of-the-art industrial and professional service robot technologies to robot developers, investors, end-users and others to help participants develop their network. Since the beginning of 2016, four national research technology […]
Rome – Swarms of drones will help farmers to map weeds in their field, and improve crop yields. This is the promise of a research project called SAGA (Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Applications), selected for funding under the umbrella of ECHORD++. SAGA will be presented at the forthcoming Maker Fair held in Rome from October […]
For the first time this year, the Human Brain Project is hosting a public OPEN DAY in the beautiful city of Florence! This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about one of Europe’s emerging research infrastructure for brain research. The Open Day will take place in the Firenze Fiera Congress Center on 12 October […]
Technische Universität München (TUM) is one of Europe’s top universities. It is committed to excellence in research and teaching, interdisciplinary education and the active promotion of promising young scientists. The university also forges strong links with companies and scientific institutions across the world. At TUM’s Department of Informatics, chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems (Prof. […]
Did you ever wonder what a robotics laboratory looks like? Are you interested in using one of our Robotics Innovation Facilities (RIFs) and would like to know what you can expect to find there? ECHORD++ has now 360-degree-tours through two of our RIFs available for you to watch: with the videos below you can tour […]
Six months can be over very, very fast as our research and development consortia in Public end-user Driven Technological Innovation (PDTI) could experience from 6th – 8th July in and around Barcelona. During these test days the researchers presented the results of their work completed during the first half year of their participation in the […]
If you are in Pisa on Monday, 11th July, don’t miss the opening ceremony of the Jean Monnet Summer School at SSSA. “The Regulation of Robotics in Europe: Legal, Ethical and Economic Implications” will take place in Aula 3 of the Main Campus (Sede Centrale) starting at 9:30 am. Members of the ECHORD++ consortium will […]
