... Commission, EURON (the European Robotics Research Network), EUROP (European Robotics Platform) and the UK EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council). All these bodies can provide support to UK researchers for appropriate projects. In the afternoon, the focus was on the technical challenges...

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...Anna Kochan Describes the Eureka program that promotes multinational industrial R&D in Europe, and provides examples of recent Eureka projects in the area of robotics and automation. In 1985, the Commission of the European Communities, together with 17 other countries, established a program...

... © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Robots Europe Europe: boom in robot orders Keywords: Robots, Europe "Never before have so many orders for industrial robots been placed by the European industry, pointing towards an acceleration in the drive to automate",says Jan...

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...) allocated to the EC Framework Programme and 1,260 mecu (9 per cent) to the Euratom (nuclear) Framework Programme. The detailed breakdown is shown in Table I.   Table I: Detailed breakdown of EC framework programme © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> EU Europe FP5 Research Technology...