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The Issues

The current societal and economic challenge—closely linked to the ethical balance of this new human-robot ecosystem—is to open up the real world to robots in a harmonious synergy, a challenge that is highly visible and immediate across all fields of robotics: industrial robotics, service robotics, medical robotics, and social robotics. It must be acknowledged that no robot currently being designed is yet able to satisfactorily meet this challenge, due to the complex, ever-changing, and poorly defined nature of real-world applications.

Interdisciplinarity

In this project, we are adopting a resolutely multidisciplinary approach to robotics that draws on Grenoble’s robotics communities in the fields of MSTIC and the social sciences and humanities, as part of a strategy that breaks with the current vision of robotics and its limitations. Thanks to this shared framework for cooperation, which brings together Grenoble’s strengths, robotics will emerge from the integrative combination of the expertise of each participant, all of whom are highly recognized in their respective fields.

A Transformative Project

A cooperative and visible community in Grenoble will be built by bringing together the city’s expertise in robotics from the engineering sciences—including automation, mechatronics, signal processing, image processing, and computer science—and from the humanities and social sciences—including cognition, social psychology, occupational psychology, neurobiology, natural language processing, and ergonomics.

A national and international reach

Thanks to recent technological advances, robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in our daily lives (automotive, service robotics, medical robotics, and industrial robotics) and are sharing their environments and tasks with humans. Robotics is considered an imminent technological and societal revolution: the “France 2030” investment plan has allocated 800 million euros to robotics.

To increase the visibility of the Grenoble site

This CDP aims to position the Grenoble site as one of the major players in robotics that interacts with the real world, both nationally and internationally. Indeed, there are few places in France—or even internationally—that have such a multidisciplinary community with the expertise and determination to tackle the major societal and economic challenge posed by robotics that interacts with the real world.