Research funding
The best robot experiments
The EU project 'Echord++' promotes cutting-edge research in robotics. With the launch of 'Echord' in 2009 and its successor 'Echord++' in 2013, over 50 robots have since made it to market maturity. We show the best in a picture gallery.
The individual robotics developments are supported from the 20 million euro pot of 'Echord++ (European Coordination Hub for Open Robotics Development) with around 300,000 euros each for around twelve to 18 months. The prerequisite is that they are economically viable and have the potential to reach market maturity in the near future.
The project partners come from research, industry and SMEs and, thanks to the EU funding, only have to raise around five million euros themselves. The EU project is being coordinated by the Chair of Real-Time Systems and Robotics at the Technical University of Munich under the direction of Alois Knoll. 'Echord++' will run until September 2018.
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