University of Bremen
Key role in robotics network of excellence
The University of Bremen becomes a member of the European Robotics Network of Excellence 'euRobin': Within the network, it coordinates one of four scientific focal points.
The most important European centers in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) will cooperate closely within a network of excellence in the future. This will establish a cooperation infrastructure for European robotics with the aim of achieving a leading international position in this disruptive field of research. The coordinators of the network will include the University of Bremen, which has built up extensive expertise in the field of AI-based robotics in recent years. Other participants include the University of Naples (Italy), ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) as well as several international industrial companies.
The 'euRobin' network is funded by the European Union as part of Horizon Europe, the EU's central funding program for research and innovation. In this network, the University of Bremen coordinates the activities in the research area 'Knowledge Representation and Reasoning'. In addition, the team led by Professor Michael Beetz contributes key elements for the development of an infrastructure for European cooperation.
"Bremen may be one of the smallest locations in the network, but we have been given one of the key roles," says the Rector of the University of Bremen, Professor Bernd Scholz-Reiter. "This is a great success for our focus on artificial intelligence and AI-based robotics in particular."
Professor Beetz and his team not only coordinate one of the four scientific areas of the network with the research area 'Knowledge Representation and Reasoning', but also lead one of the nine work packages with specific research topics. In addition, the University of Bremen is helping to develop the infrastructure for intensive European cooperation. Specifically, the plan is to set up a knowledge base under the name 'EuroCore' (European Robotics Collaborative Repository). The university is providing an important building block for this with openEASE, a comprehensive web-based knowledge service for robots.
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