The BOOT project aims to develop interdisciplinarity and scientific innovation in the field of robotics interacting with the real world in a strategy that departs from the current vision of robotics and its limitations. Moreover, this project aims to position Grenoble as one of the major players in robotics interacting with the real world, visible at the national and international levels.

Challenges

The current societal and economic challenges, strongly linked to the ethical balance of this new human-robot ecosystem, are to open the real world to robots in a harmonious synergy. It is a very visible and immediate challenge in all fields of robotics: industrial robotics, service robotics, medical robotics and social robotics. It is clear that no robot currently designed can yet satisfactorily meet this challenge, due to the complex, changing and ill-defined nature of the interaction taking place in the applications.

Interdisciplinarity

In this project, we adopt a resolutely multidisciplinary approach to robotics based on Grenoble’s robotics communities in Mathematics, Information, and Communication Sciences (MICS) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in a strategy that departs from the current vision of robotics and its limitations. With the opportunity of this common framework of cooperation federating Grenoble's strengths, robotics will benefit from the integrative emergence of the competences of each of the actors, each of whom is highly recognized in their specialty.

A transformative project

A cooperative and visible Grenoble community will be built in the field of robotics interacting with the real world by federating Grenoble's robotic skills in the engineering sciences of automation, mechatronics, signal processing, image processing, and computer science, and in the human and social sciences of cognition, social psychology, work psychology, neurobiology, automatic language processing, and ergonomics.

National and international reach

Thanks to recent technological progress and the cultural evolution of our societies, robots are more and more present in our daily life (automotive industry, service robots, medical robotics, assistant robots, etc.) and share their environments and tasks with humans. Robotics is considered as an imminent technological and societal revolution: the "France 2030" investment plan has announced an amount of 800 million Euros for robotics.

For a better visibility of Grenoble

This Cross Disciplinary Program (CDP) aims to position Grenoble as one of the major players in robotics interacting with the real world, visible at the national and international levels. Indeed, there are few places in France, and even internationally, that have such a multidisciplinary community with the skills and the will to address the major societal and economic challenge that is robotics interacting with the real world in which humans evolve.