Heidelberg scientist coordinates new EU project “KoroiBot”
Teaching two-legged robots a stable, robust “human” way of
walking – this is the goal of the international research project “KoroiBot”
with scientists from seven institutions from Germany, France, Israel, Italy and
the Netherlands. The experts from the areas of robotics, mathematics and
cognitive sciences want to study human locomotion as exactly as possible and
transfer this onto technical equipment with the assistance of new mathematical
processes and algorithms. The European Union is financing the three-year
research project that started in October 2013 with approx. EUR 4.16 million.
The scientific coordinator is Prof. Dr. Katja Mombaur from Heidelberg
University.