TORNADO

Full Title

foundaTion mOdels for Robots that haNdle smAll, soft and Deformable Objects

Grant Agreement No.

101189557

Programme

Horizon Europe

Call Topic

HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-03

Duration

42 months (1 January 2025 - 30 June 2028)

Budget (Total)

€ ~7.5Μ

Budget (VUB)

€ 356.625,00

Keywords

Cloud robotics; Autonomous mobile robot; Foundation Models; Deep Learning; Explainable AI; Adaptivity

The TORNADO project will develop an innovative, multi-functional and adaptive cloud robotics platform, supporting advanced navigation of an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) within complex, time-varying, real-world, human-populated indoor environments. The AMR will be able to manipulate small, soft or deformable objects (SSDs), as well as to naturally interact with humans via hand gestures or verbal conversation, by exploiting the zero-shot generalization abilities of deep neural Foundation Models for robotics.

IOTAM INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATIONS AND MULTI LAYER DEVELOPMENT LTD [GR] (Project Coordinator); UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA [ES]; VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL [BE]; ZAPADOCESKA UNIVERZITA V PLZNI [CZ]; ELLINIKO MESOGEIAKO PANEPISTIMIO [GR]; FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA [IT]; IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS [GR]; NETCOMPANY S.A. [LU]; CHAROKOPEIO PANEPISTIMIO [GR]; K3Y [BG]; NSBPROJECT SRL [IT]; SAN RAFFAELE S.p.A. [IT]; HANKAMP GEARS B.V [NL]; MCC BEST VALUE LTD [CY]

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