LIFEBOTS Exchange is a project that fosters seeks cross-sectoral, international and interdisciplinary collaboration to advance social robotics with a focus on healthcare. The project promotes mobility and staff exchanges between researchers at universities and robot developers at companies across 11 countries. Through these exchanges researchers and developers advance practical knowledge about the capabilities of social robots and how they can be integrated into people's lives in meaningful and ethical ways. LIFEBOTS Exchange is currently on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we look forward to resuming activities once international travel is again possible
| Project name: | LIFEBOTS Exchange: Creating a new reality of care and welfare through the inclusion of social robots | |
| Website: | www.lifebots.eu | |
| Duration: | April 2019–January 2025 The project has been suspended since 20 November 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has resumed on 3 May 2022. This means the action was suspended for 525 days. | |
| Budget: | 768,000 € | |
| Funded by: | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (MSCA-RISE) | |
| Project number: | 824047 | |
| Project partners: | NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology Canary Tech, Romania Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra, Portugal Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece Co-Robotics SRL, Italy European Health Telematics Association, Belgium IDMind, Portugal Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea Salumedia Labs, Spain Technical University of Košice, Slovakia Université de Genève, Switzerland University Hospital of Northern Norway |