Project Participants

The German Aerospace Center (DLR)

www.dlr.de

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is the national aeronautics and space research centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security and digitalisation is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. DLR is also responsible for the planning and implementation of Germany’s space activities on behalf of the federal government. DLR is also the umbrella organisation for one of Germany’s largest project management agencies.

The DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics develops a wide array of robots to enable humans to interact more safely and efficiently with their surrounding environments. The robots are designed to act in surroundings inaccessible or dangerous to humans as well as to support humans in everyday life and work.

Sorbonne University

www.sorbonne-universite.fr

Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary and research-intensive university. It is structured in three faculties in humanities, medicine and science. The University has 53,500 students, 3,400 professor-researchers and 3,600 administrative and technical staff members. The Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) is a multidisciplinary research laboratory that brings together researchers and academics from different disciplines of Engineering Sciences and Information and the Life Sciences. Research at ISIR covers most topics of robotics from the mechanical design to control, signal processing and cognitive abilities and are organised around two axes: autonomy (autonomous movements, decisional autonomy) and interaction with humans through multimodal channels (haptics, movement, verbal and non verbal communication channels).

Sorbonne is involved in multiple European projects, for instance SoftManBot or CORSMAL and, in the context of the Tremplin Carnot “Interfaces” Institute, in collaborations with industrials like SoftBank Robotics, PSA, Wandercraft or Percipio. Sorbonne University was the coordinator of the DREAM FET Proactive project.

Armines

www.armines.net/fr

Armines is a private non-profit research and technological organisation (RTO) funded in 1967, having 48 common research centres with several Ecoles des Mines and French Engineering Schools, gathering public and private personnel and means, to collaborate on an arms lengths basis and perform contractual research activities and academic research training. The Joint Research Units and the collaboration between Armines and the research centres are organised within the frame of a convention signed in conformity with the Law dated April 18th, 2006, under the administrative authority of the French Minister of Industry; Armines having in addition, the duty to manage contractual research activities and the related intellectual property rights.

The Armines/ENSTA Paris common research centre “Computer Science and System Engineering Department” (U2IS) is involved in the VeriDream project. U2IS focuses on the engineering of complex systems and comprises ENSTA Paris research activities in the fields of computer science, robotics and computer vision, embedded systems, and signal and image processing. The research of the “Autonomous Systems and Robotics” team in particular focuses on mobile robot navigation, perception, embedded vision, machine learning and human-robot interaction. Our emphasis is on applying machine learning to real-world applications, such as assistive and service robotics, intelligent vehicles, defence and security.

Magazino GmbH

www.magazino.eu

Magazino GmbH develops and builds intelligent, mobile robots that perceive their environment and make their own decisions. These autonomous robots work alongside people and make processes in e‑commerce, fashion and production logistics more flexible and efficient than ever before. With over 100 employees in Munich, Magazino is the largest Advanced Robotics team in Europe. Magazino’s investors include Jungheinrich AG, Körber AG, Zalando and Fiege Logistik.

GoodAI

www.goodai.com

GoodAI is a research and development organization based in Prague with the goal to develop general artificial intelligence – as fast as possible – to help humanity and understand the universe. It was founded by CEO/CTO Marek Rosa in January 2014 and now has over 30 research scientists, engineers, and consultants working across its divisions.

SYNESIS

www.synesis-consortium.eu/en

SYNESIS is a European private-public Consortium whose main shareholders are private Italian and German SMEs, and whose public shareholders are Italian and German RTD Institutions, namely the National Research Council of Italy and the German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Synesis represents the new frontier of Technology Transfer in the industrial automation domain, where it is active for implementing a virtuous circle between research and industry that allows customers to take advantage from the most recent knowledge available.