Inbots

Project description

A favorable ecosystem is essential to foster robotics, and this means that legislation, ethics, businesses, and end-users have to be ready to embrace them. With the aim of fostering a suitable paradigm for the introduction of robotics, a new EU Project was born in Brussels, called INBOTS. The consortium gathers more than 25 partners from 13 different countries and is creating a community hub that gathers together multidisciplinary experts to deliver the best future guidelines for creating responsible regulation and standards.

INBOTS CSA focuses on interactive robots, meaning all those which work closely with humans. This is the framework where PAL Robotics’ robots are also placed since their mission is to actively collaborate with people. INBOTS is an excellent opportunity to support each other and grow a positive European robotics ecosystem altogether.

INBOTS becomes “a platform to establish a working synergy between four pillars that covers all stakeholders in Interactive Robotics”, which are:

• Technical Pillar
• Business Pillar
• Ethical, legal and socioeconomic Pillar
• End-users, policy makers and general public Pillar

As the head of Unit of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the European Commission Anne Bajart stated at the Kick-off meeting, coordination and support actions are important to achieve agreements on relevant aspects, both technical and non-technical. This is key to reinforce the European leadership in robotics, which can lead to strengthen the industry and boost the economy.