The international kick-off meeting of the Conbots project coordinated by theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and developed with universities and companies in the United Kingdom, Serbia, Belgium and Israel
11 February 2020 - The school of the future it will have pupils who learn to write or play a musical instrument helped by connected robots. A possible scenario thanks to the Conbots project coordinated byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma which saw its kick-off meeting on 12 and 13 February in Rome, in the presence of all the project partners, such as the Imperial College of London, the University of Ghent in Belgium, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, and three industrial realities of international level such as IBM, IUVO and ARVRtech.
Conbots means “CONnected through roBOTS” and is the first project that aims to increase the physical interaction between two human beings through the use of robots. Funded with almost five million euros from the European framework program "Horizon 2020", the project will last 3 and a half years.
Aimed in particular at the little ones, Conbots will design and test a new class of connected robots in educational scenarios through which to facilitate motor learning, alongside the figure of the traditional master: it is a new collaborative perspective between man and machine.
Recent neuroscientific studies indeed suggest that you learn a new motor task more quickly by working in pairs. A possible result also thanks to augmented reality tools and real "educational video games" developed within Conbots.
