The European Robotics Week offers one week of robotics related activities across Europe for the general public, highlighting growing importance of robotics in a wide variety of application areas. The week, which will run23-29 November 2015, aims to connect the robotics community to the public, and engage children in fun and educational activities. This year, […]
ECHORD++ is now one step closer to funding more experiments, our research projects for real-life applications: the evaluation for the second call for experiments has been completed and all proposers have been informed about the outcome of the evaluation. Congratulations to all successful applicants and thank you to everyone who worked one of the 114 […]
Lisbon. Portugal’s beautiful capital was the location of choice for our second review meeting. For us as the project team, this annual meeting with our programme officer from the European Commission and the independent experts evaluating the progress of our project, is certainly one of the most exciting events every year. Why? Well, because here […]
What an amazing day! RIF@Bristol was lucky enough to be invited to take part in this year’s “Venturefest Wales” held at the Swalec cricket stadium in Cardiff on Tuesday 29th September. Together with over a thousand delegates representing start-up businesses, SMEs, consultancy firms, universities and business support networks, Mark, Farid and Salim from RIF@Bristol celebrated […]
Urban Robotics is a new challenging area of robotic applications, which will have an impact in key urban areas: Collaborative Society, Mobility, Information and communications technology, Energy and Environment. Robots will have an impact on the transportation of people and goods, urban services (like maintenance or cleaning), environment monitoring, road repairing and urban surveillance.
Could you switch on and off a light bulb only with the power of your mind? Well, ECHORD++ scientist Francesco Maurelli could try for himself at Innorobo 2015 in Lyon and was duly impressed that it’s actually possible. The event in France showcased a huge variety of technological innovations that offer solutions to today’s and […]
The American engineering news portal EEWeb featured ECHORD++ as “Engineering Site of the Day”. We would like to thank EEWeb for giving us the opportunity to showcase our project to a wide range of professionals. Have a look at our profile on EEWeb: http://www.eeweb.com/websites/echord
The Bristol based Robotics Innovation Facility (RIF@BRL) had the pleasure of being a part of this year’s VentureFest in Bristol on June 9th. The annual event showcases Bristol’s much celebrated standing as the UK’s leading centre for innovation, aerospace and high-tech development attracting visitors from across the South West region and beyond. Over 1,600 people […]
“RoboBusiness Europe” is coming! From May 26th-28th the conference will provide a platform for robotic developers to meet, connect and identify the needs of robotics end-users. As a project which fosters the cooperation between industry and academia, ECHORD++ will be part of RoboBusiness Europe, especially as the event is organized by our core-consortium partner Blue […]
A while ago we asked you for your feedback regarding the ECHORD++ experiment application process. Thank you to all who took part in the survey! The feedback we received is very interesting and helpful for us. If you are interested in the results of the survey, you can download them here. Among other interesting and […]
