Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Manolo Garabini, Centro di ricerca “E. Piaggio”

THING will advance the perceptual capabilities of highly mobile legged platforms through haptic perception and active exploration.

In this light, THING will deliver: 1) Novel foot designs for enhanced tactile perception and locomotion, 2) Improved perceptual capability, enriching existing modalities (lidar, vision) with haptic information, 3) Heightened physical sense of the environment, including friction, ground stability (difficult through vision alone), and 4) Enhanced mobility through improved perception, prediction, and control.

Coordinator
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (United Kingdom)

Other participants

• POLITECHNIKA POZNANSKA (Poland)
• UNIVERSITA’ DI PISA (Italy)
• EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH (Switzerland)
• THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (United Kingdom)
• QBROBOTICS SRL (Italy)
• ANYBOTICS AG (Switzerland)
• KGHM CUPRUM SP ZOO CENTRUM BADAWCZO-ROZWOJOWE (Poland)

Start date 01/01/2018
End date 31/03/2021
Duration 39 months
Project cost 4.071.685 €
Project funding 4.071.685 €
Unipi quota 454.375 €
Call title H2020-ICT-2017-1
Unipi role Partner

Project website http://thing.put.poznan.pl/