When intelligence is distributed across many parts, be they robots, devices, or objects, it can be tricky for the bigger picture to emerge. Yet answering these questions is key to making collective systems that are easy to design, monitor and control.

EMERGE will deliver a new philosophical, mathematical, and technological framework to demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, how a collaborative awareness – a representation of shared existence, environment and goals – can arise from the interactions of elemental artificial entities.

In this effort, we will rely only on unstructured conditions that the real world demands without leveraging a pre-existing shared language between them. Our goal is to surpass the limitations and barriers of the current state-of-the-art distributed systems to produce breakthroughs and open new markets in the next generation of robotic systems.

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Exploring the Ethical Frontiers of Aware Artificial Intelligence: EU Researchers Convene in Uppsala

Exploring the Ethical Frontiers of Aware Artificial Intelligence: EU Researchers Convene in Uppsala

Calendar20 January 2025

Event organised by the European Innovation Council (EIC) funded projects in the “Awareness Inside” portfolio discusses the ethical implications of designing aware artificial intelligent systems.

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3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI 2025)

3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI 2025)

Calendar10 December 2024

EMERGE partners from UNIPI are involved in the organisation of the 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI 2025) to be held in Istanbul, Türkiye, on July 9-11, 2025.

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EMERGE joins the 2nd EIC Portfolio Workshop on ‘Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness’

EMERGE joins the 2nd EIC Portfolio Workshop on ‘Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness’

Calendar14 November 2024

Held in Uppsala, Sweden, the event gathered speakers from numerous European projects to discuss the ethical implications of designing aware artificial multi-agent systems.

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Partners

The EMERGE consortium brings together the University of Pisa (Italy), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), University of Bristol (United Kingdom), and Da Vinci Labs (France).

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