This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 779942.
CrowdBot is a European Union Horizon 2020 (EU H2020) project for research and innovation in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and funded by the European Commission for the period of January 2018─December 2021 (initially January 2018─June 2021). The official name of the project is “Safe Navigation of Robots in Dense Human Crowds”, which is also the focus area of our research activities. The name “CrowdBot” is an amalgam of human “crowd” and machine “bot.” We also lovingly refer to any of our three robots as a CrowdBot.
Consortium
The CrowdBot Team, also known as the CrowdBot Consortium under official EU H2020 terminology, is comprised of leading experts and researchers from the following academic institutions and commercial enterprises:
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), France.
- University College, London (UCL).
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland.
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen University (RWTH), Germany.
- SoftBank Robotics, Europe (SBRE), France.
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
- Locomotec (LOC), Germany.
