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.
The Collegium will employ 16 RobotDoC Fellows, of which 13 will be PhD students (Early Career Researchers) and 3 postdocs (Experience Researcher). 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.
Travel Bursaries
Thanks to the support of the EUCogII (eucognition.org) network, there are 5 Travel Bursaries to be given to 5 PhD students, external to the RobotDoc Collegium, who want to participate to the training event. The application process is now closed, and we expect to announce recipients by the end of January. The programme of the workshop is availble here.
