New EU-Project „RoCKIn“

RoCKIn is an EU project that will be run over the next three years, consisting of robot competitions, symposiums, educational RoCKIn camps and technology transfer workshops. Our mission is to act as a catalyst for smarter, more dependable robots. We are doing this by building upon the principles of challenge-driven innovation laid down by RoboCup, facilitating cognitive and networked robot systems' testing, and streamlining research and development through standardised testbeds and benchmarks. For this we have two challenges which will run concurrently in 2014 and 2015 with an introductory event to be held in June 2013. These challenges were selected due to their high relevance and impact on Europe's societal and industrial needs.

The project will run for three years and has the following partners:

• Tecnico Lisboa (IST)
• Universität Rom
• Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• KUKA
• Politecnico di Milano
• Innocentive

• Projectwebsite www.rockinrobotchallenge.eu