Happy to be informed today that our proposal named TORNADO: “foundaTion mOdels for Robots that haNdle smAll, soft and Deformable Objects” has been selected to be funded by the EC.
The proposal was submitted under the competitive call HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-03, received a 14.5/15 grade and I will be acting as the project coordinator.
TORNADO 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, while largely leveraging the zero-shot generalization abilities of deep neural Foundation Models (FMs) for robotics.
Multiple vacancies for post-doc and PhD researchers will become available (interested individuals can send me their CVs at G.Th.Papadopoulos@hua.gr), regarding the following topics:
- Dynamic semantic 3D SLAM
- On-line adjustment mechanisms for Foundation Models in robotics
- Adaptive cognitive pipeline management for Foundation Models
- On-demand Learning-from-Demonstration
- AI for real-time semantic environment perception
- AI for sound analysis and verbal communication
- Human behavior analysis, modeling and anticipation
- XAI-equipped AR-based human-robot interface
