title: Beyond robotics: a new proactive research initiative from the EU IST program.
abstract: A research initiative on embodied artificial intelligence has been launched in 2004 by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) arm of the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme of the European Union. The initiative is called "Beyond Robotics" to emphasize that the research projects funded are required to set ambitious objectives and to aim at breakthroughs going well beyond the state of the art. Four projects worth 20 M E of EC funding were selected for 2004-2008 to address the objectives of the initiative.
authors.affiliation: Future and Emerging Technologies, European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 33, B-1160 Brussels, Belgium. pekka.karp@cec.eu.int
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Karp
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design / Q000639:trends*; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*