European Commission
Executive body of the EU; has funded major AI and neuroscience research programmes including RobotCub (iCub) and the Human Brain Project.
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Neurorobotics Platform, Human Brain Project
In 2015, the Human Brain Project, a European Commission Flagship Initiative, released its Neurorobotics Platform, a simulation environment allowing researchers to connect large-scale brain models to virtual robot bodies and run closed-loop cognitive experiments without physical hardware.
iCub Humanoid Robot Platform
The iCub humanoid robot was developed from 2004 onward by the RobotCub Consortium, coordinated by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), as an open-hardware child-sized platform for research into embodied cognition, motor learning, and human–robot interaction.