PRESS RELEASE: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Hosts Kickoff of €4.9 Million Horizon Europe Project, CoreSense
Madrid, Spain – October 2022 – The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) hosted the kickoff of the CoreSense project, a €4.9 million Horizon Europe initiative aimed at developing a cognitive architecture for autonomous robots.
Coordinated by UPM, the project brings together a consortium of leading research institutions and industry partners, including Irish Manufacturing Research, Technische Universiteit Delft, Fraunhofer, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and PAL Robotics.
The project, titled “CoreSense: A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture for Deep Understanding,” seeks to address the challenges associated with the increased autonomy of robots, particularly in terms of reliability, resilience, and trust. The proposed solution is based on a formal concept of understanding and will support value-oriented situation understanding and self-awareness to improve robot flexibility, resilience, and explainability.
Over the course of the four-year project, the consortium will develop reusable software assets and conduct demonstrations in three key areas: augmenting the resilience of drone teams, increasing the flexibility of manufacturing robots, and enhancing the alignment of social robots with human behavior.
Ricardo Sanz, CoreSense Project Coordinator said, “This is an exciting opportunity to explore these risky worlds of artificial intelligence with such a good and committed team” said Ricardo Sanz, Coordinator of CoreSense. “Through CoreSense, we aim to push the boundaries of what is currently possible in autonomous robotics concerning world understanding and awareness,”
Carlos Garcia, Head of AI Strategy at IMR said, “Autonomous robots have the potential to revolutionize manufacturing and many other industries, but they are currently limited by their ability to understand and respond to complex and changing environments. With Coresense we are developing an advanced cognitive architecture, with the goal of overcoming these limitations and provide a solution that can be used across multiple domains and applications. This European project will enhance IMR´s position as Ireland’s leading technology hub for the development and application of AI in the manufacturing sector.”
The CoreSense project will run from October 2022 until September 2026. Grant agreement ID: 101070254.
About Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is the largest Spanish technological university as well as a renowned European R&D institution. With recognition as Campus of International Excellence, it is outstanding in its research activity together with its training of highly qualified professionals, very competitive at an international level. More than 2,500 researchers carry out their activity at the UPM, leading the Spanish Universities’ participation in the European Framework Programmes. The Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales that hosts CORESENSE research was founded in 1845 and offers graduate and postgraduate degrees of industrial orientation.
About CoreSense
CoreSense is a €4.9 million Horizon Europe project coordinated by Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and involving a consortium of leading research institutions and industry partners. The project aims to develop a cognitive architecture for autonomous robots based on a formal concept of understanding, supporting value-oriented situation understanding and self-awareness to improve robot flexibility, resilience, and explainability. The project will run from October 2022 until September 2026.
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