APRIL: Personal Robots at Your Service

The EU-funded APRIL project, the first Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks European Industrial Doctorate (ITN-EID), is paving the way for personal robots. “APRIL's main aim was to establish the leading European Industrial Doctorate Centre for cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral training in developmental and social cognitive systems, human–robot interaction and personal robotics,” states project coordinator Angelo Cangelosi. “Training and research activities were organized around the four pillars of Scientific Excellence, Technological Innovation, Future Leaders and Entrepreneurship.”