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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EMERGE celebrates the its first year!

EMERGE celebrates the its first year!

Calendar22 November 2023

The EMERGE consortium got together at Delft University of Technology and RoboHouse in the Netherlands.

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First open meeting of the portfolio of projects funded by the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Awareness Inside“

First open meeting of the portfolio of projects funded by the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Awareness Inside“

Calendar27 September 2023

The meeting is taking place Oct. 1st, 2023, in Kraków, Poland, during the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023).

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Workshop “Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness”

Workshop “Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness”

Calendar12 September 2023

The workshop presents an opportunity for philosophers, computer scientists, roboticists and other experts to contribute to a nuanced understanding of ethical concerns surrounding artificial 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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