Publication: RoboCom++: Rethinking Robotics for the Robot Companion of the Future
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2017-06-08
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The main objective of the RoboCom++ proposal is to lay the foundation for a future global interdisciplinary research programme (e.g., a FET-Flagship project) on a new science-based transformative Robotics, to be launched by the end of the H2020 Programme. RoboCom++ will gather the community and organise the knowledge necessary to rethink the design principles and fabrication technologies of future robots. RoboCom++ will aim at developing the cooperative robots (or Companion Robots) of the year 2030, by fostering a deeply multidisciplinary, transnational and federated effort. The mechatronic paradigm adopted today, although successful, may prevent a wider use of robotic systems. For example, system complexity increases with functions, leading to more than linearly increasing costs and power usage and decreasing robustness. RoboCom++ will pursue a radically new design paradigm, grounded in the scientific studies of intelligence in nature. This approach will allow achieving complex functionalities in a new bodyware with limited use of computing resources, mass and energy, with the aim of exploiting compliance instead of fighting it. Simplification mechanisms will be based on the concepts of embodied intelligence, morphological computation, simplexity, and evolutionary and developmental approaches.
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This document has been presented at Jornadas Nacionales de Robótica 2017.
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Robotics, Soft robotics, Bioinspired robotics, Morphological computation, Cognitive robotics, Intelligent materials, Ethical, Legal, Economic and social aspects
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C. A. Monje, C. Balaguer. RoboCom++: Rethinking Robotics for the Robot Companion of the Future. Jornadas Nacionales de Robótica, JNR 2017, pp. 1-5.