The RobotDoc Collegium
The RobotDoC Collegium is a multi-national doctoral training network for the interdisciplinary training on developmental cognitive robotics. The RobotDoc Fellows will develop advanced expertise of domain-specific robotics research skills and of complementary transferrable skills for careers in academia and industry. They will acquire hands-on experience through experiments with the open-source humanoid robot iCub, complemented by other existing robots available in the network’s laboratories.
Marie Curie Actions ProgrammeThe Collegium will employ 16 Marie Curie Fellows, of which 13 will be PhD students (Early Career Researchers) and 3 postdocs (Experience Researcher). It also has over 15 Associate Fellows.
Research training will be centred on a series of training milestones such as two summer schools, international conferences and interdisciplinary research methods workshops. Fellows will also be directly involved and closely supervised for research in novel projects on embodied cognition, motivational and affective mechanisms, neuro-robotics modelling, developmental psychology, sensorimotor learning, social interaction and higher-order cognitive modelling. An individual coaching programme will support each Fellow’s training progress as well as professional and personal enhancement through individualised skill development plans.
Next Fellows Meeting
Interim meeting for introducing new Fellows, Plymouth, 13 September 2010
This one-day event will allow all new and old Fellows to meet and discuss ogoing work in Robotdoc.
Next Training Meeting
Project Proposal Workshop, Bielefeld, 25-27 October 2010
The next training event will focus on the presentation of the Fellows' reserach proposals and additional training on developmental robotics. This workshop is for Fellows and collegium staff only.
