Collaborative Research Center on Humanoid Robots (SFB 588)

The Collaborative Research Center 588 "Humanoid Robots Learning and Cooperating Multimodal Robots" was established in July 2001 by the Germany Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: DFG) and will run until June 2012. The goal of this interdisciplinary research project is the development of humanoid robots which resemble humans in their ways of acting in the world, of reasoning about the world and of communicating about the world. Apart from the development of mechatronics components for humanoid robots, the research efforts span a wide range of disciplines such as learning from observation, multi-modal human-humanoid interaction, human-humanoid cooperation, interpretation of human activities, as well as the execution of gasping and manipulation tasks in a household environment.