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European robotics and AI programmes

European public programmes at the robotics and AI intersection: dates, sourced budgets, computed status, and above all which organisations already tracked by this Atlas each programme actually gathered.

European robotics no longer has a partnership of its own. SPARC, signed with euRobotics on 17 December 2013, put EUR 700M of Commission money behind robotics alone for 2014-2020. Its successor, signed with ADRA in June 2021, covers artificial intelligence, data and robotics together — and euRobotics is one founding member out of five. The cascade-funding hubs that carried European robotics through Horizon 2020 are closed, and the network of excellence that coordinates the field today, euROBIN, ends in 2026. This page is not a catalogue of European projects: CORDIS publishes every one of them as open data and does it better. It records what CORDIS does not — which organisations already tracked by this Atlas a programme actually gathered, and what each one left behind when it stopped. For the windows you can apply to, see the other page: funding your project.

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Acronym	Kind	Framework	Country	Start	End	Status	Partners tracked here	Latest shift
euROBIN	Network of excellence	Horizon Europe	DE	2022-07	2026-12	Ending	10	Neutral · 09/2026
Three published figures do not agree, and this entry settles none of them. Budget: EUR 11.5M of EU contribution (CORDIS) against EUR 12.5M announced by DLR, which states the sum covers the EU and Switzerland — EPFL and ETH Zurich sit in the consortium with zero EU contribution. End date: 31 December 2026 (CORDIS, which reflects amendments) against 30 June 2026 (DLR). Partner count: 28 signatory organisations plus 2 non-signatory partners at CORDIS, against 31 partners in 14 countries announced by DLR and by the Commission; CORDIS records one participation as ended (ABB), which may or may not explain the gap of one. Full title : euROBIN — European ROBotics and AI NetworkGrant agreement : 101070596Coordinator : Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)Funder : Commission européenne (Horizon Europe)EU contribution : EUR 11.5MTotal cost : EUR 11.5MPartners : 30Countries : 14Focus : transferable robot skills, shared software modules, manufacturing robotics, personal robotics, outdoor roboticsWhat it left behind : The euROBIN coopetitions — annual events where a team scores both for its own robot and for the software modules other teams reuse — and EuroCore, the shared marketplace where those modules are deposited. The first coopetition ran in Nancy on 25-28 November 2024 across three domains: circular-economy manufacturing, personal robots and outdoor robots.Partners tracked here : Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (RMC)coordinatordeclaredH2T - High Performance Humanoid Technologies LabbeneficiarydeclaredHUCEBOT - Human-Centered Robotics (successeur de l'équipe LARSEN)beneficiarydeclaredAICOR Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI)beneficiarydeclaredCentro di Ricerca Enrico PiaggiobeneficiarydeclaredFraunhofer IPA (Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung)beneficiarydeclaredRobotic Systems Lab (RSL)associated partnerdeclaredPAL Roboticsbeneficiarythird partySiemensbeneficiarythird partyABB Roboticsparticipation endedthird partyOther partners : Technische Universität München (DE, beneficiary) · Universidad de Sevilla (ES, beneficiary) · Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (FR, beneficiary) · Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IT, beneficiary) · Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) (SE, beneficiary) · Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (FR, beneficiary) · Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum (imec) (BE, beneficiary) · Örebro University (SE, beneficiary) · Universiteit Twente (NL, beneficiary) · Sorbonne Université (FR, beneficiary) · IST-ID, Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico (PT, beneficiary) · C.R.E.A.T.E. Consorzio di Ricerca (IT, beneficiary) · Institut Jožef Stefan (SI, beneficiary) · České vysoké učení technické v Praze (CZ, beneficiary) · Teknologisk Institut (DK, beneficiary) · Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation (ES, beneficiary) · FundingBox Accelerator (PL, beneficiary) · DHL Express Spain (ES, beneficiary) · Volkswagen AG (DE, beneficiary) · STV Machinery (SK, beneficiary) · École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (CH, associated partner) Shifts July 2022 Project start Opening euROBIN starts as the European network of excellence on AI-powered robotics, coordinated by DLR. September 2026 Successor announced Neutral Live robot demonstration at the European Parliament in Brussels on 2 September 2026, with MEP Axel Voss and euROBIN coordinator Alin Albu-Schäffer, calling for a coordinated European initiative on AI-powered robotics. No successor programme is announced at that date. Source: Commission européenne (DG CONNECT) Sources: CORDIS (Commission européenne) (2026-09-03)euROBIN (page institutionnelle du projet) (2026-09-03)euROBIN (page institutionnelle du projet) (2026-09-03)DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (2026-09-03)Commission européenne (DG CONNECT) (2026-09) Last verified 2026-09-03
ROSIN	Innovation hub	Horizon 2020	NL	2017-01	2020-12	Closed	2	Closing · 12/2020
ROSIN is one of the fourteen H2020 cascade-funding hubs, all closed. Its object — ROS-Industrial — has its own entry in this Atlas's software dataset, and the ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe it fed is hosted by Fraunhofer IPA, also a project partner. CORDIS lists seven organisations, the project's own site six: the seventh, Hitachi Energy Sweden, is the former ABB Power Grids entity. Full title : ROSIN — ROS-Industrial quality-assured robot software componentsGrant agreement : 732287Coordinator : Technische Universiteit DelftFunder : Commission européenne (Horizon 2020)EU contribution : EUR 7.5MTotal cost : EUR 7.65MPartners : 7Countries : 5Focus : ROS-Industrial, software quality assurance, automated code testing, cascade fundingWhat it left behind : The quality-assurance layer of ROS-Industrial in Europe: automated code-quality testing brought to ROS packages, and the Focused Technical Projects mechanism that spent half the project budget on third-party developers, pre-financed and meant to feed a revolving fund.Partners tracked here : ABB Roboticsbeneficiarythird partyFraunhofer IPA (Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung)beneficiarydeclaredOther partners : Technische Universiteit Delft (NL, coordinator) · IT-Universitetet i København (DK, beneficiary) · Fachhochschule Aachen (DE, beneficiary) · Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation (ES, beneficiary) · Hitachi Energy Sweden AB (SE, beneficiary) Shifts January 2017 Project start Opening ROSIN starts, with half its budget earmarked for third-party Focused Technical Projects. December 2020 Project end Closing ROSIN ends. It is one of the fourteen European cascade-funding hubs for robotics, all of which are now closed. Sources: CORDIS (Commission européenne) (2026-09-03)ROSIN (page institutionnelle du projet) (2026-09-03) Last verified 2026-09-03
EUROBENCH	Innovation hub	Horizon 2020	ES	2018-01	2022-06	Closed	1	Closing · 06/2022
The REEM-C humanoid that EUROBENCH offered to third parties is built by PAL Robotics, the project partner that this Atlas already tracks — one of the rare cases where a European benchmarking programme and a European robot maker meet on the same machine. Full title : EUROBENCH — EUropean ROBotic framework for bipedal locomotion bENCHmarkingGrant agreement : 779963Coordinator : Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Funder : Commission européenne (Horizon 2020)EU contribution : EUR 8.19MTotal cost : EUR 8.19MPartners : 10Countries : 5Focus : bipedal locomotion benchmarking, exoskeletons, humanoid robots, test benches, cascade fundingWhat it left behind : Europe's first benchmarking framework for bipedal systems: the test benches built in the project, kept operative with their safety systems to serve third parties, and a REEM-C humanoid made available to open-call users, plus eleven peer-reviewed publications on exoskeleton and humanoid performance metrics.Partners tracked here : PAL Roboticsbeneficiarythird partyOther partners : Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (ES, coordinator) · Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IT, beneficiary) · Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (DE, beneficiary) · Roessingh Research and Development BV (NL, beneficiary) · Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation (ES, beneficiary) · Embla Medical hf (IS, beneficiary) · IUVO Srl (IT, beneficiary) · Altran Innovación SL (ES, beneficiary) · PKF Attest Inncome SL (ES, beneficiary) Shifts January 2018 Project start Opening EUROBENCH starts, to build Europe's first benchmarking framework for bipedal robots. June 2022 Project end Closing EUROBENCH ends; the test benches remain, the funded programme does not. Sources: CORDIS (Commission européenne) (2026-09-03)CORDIS (Commission européenne) (2026-09-03) Last verified 2026-09-03
SPARC	Partnership	Outside any framework programme	BE	2014-01	2020-12	Closed	0	Neutral · 05/2021
SPARC has no grant agreement: it was a contractual public-private partnership, not a project, which is why it appears in no CORDIS record. Its EUR 700M of Commission funding was matched by roughly triple that from European industry, for about EUR 2.8bn in total. Full title : SPARC — The Partnership for Robotics in EuropeCoordinator : euRobotics AISBL et Commission européenneFunder : Commission européenne et industrie européenne (partenariat public-privé contractuel)EU contribution : EUR 700MTotal cost : EUR 2.8bnFocus : robotics public-private partnership, multi-annual roadmap, civilian roboticsWhat it left behind : EUR 700M of European funding dedicated to robotics alone between 2014 and 2020 — the largest civilian-funded robotics innovation programme in the world at the time — and the multi-annual robotics roadmap that euRobotics still maintains. What it did not leave behind is a successor dedicated to robotics. Shifts December 2013 Partnership signed Opening The contractual public-private partnership in robotics is signed on 17 December 2013 by Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes and euRobotics president Bernd Liepert, for the 2014-2020 period. December 2020 Project end Closing SPARC's term ends. European robotics loses the partnership that was its own. May 2021 Successor announced Neutral ADRA is founded on 21 May 2021 by five associations — BDVA, CAIRNE, ELLIS, EurAI and euRobotics — as the private side of a partnership that now covers AI, data and robotics together. Sources: euRobotics AISBL (page SPARC) (2026-09-03)euRobotics AISBL (2026-09-03)ADRA (AI, Data and Robotics Association) (2026-09-03) Last verified 2026-09-03
ADR	Partnership	Horizon Europe	BE	2021-06	No term	Running	0	Opening · 06/2021
No budget figure is published either on ADRA's own site or on the Commission's launch page consulted on 3 September 2026. A figure of about EUR 2.6bn circulates in secondary sources, attributed to the DG RTD partnership fiche; it is deliberately left out of the numeric fields of this entry rather than published without a primary source. Full title : Partenariat européen co-programmé « AI, Data and Robotics »Coordinator : ADRA (AI, Data and Robotics Association) et Commission européenneFunder : Commission européenne et ADRA (partenariat co-programmé Horizon Europe)Focus : co-programmed partnership, artificial intelligence, data, roboticsWhat it left behind : The partnership itself, and what it replaced: since 2021 European robotics reaches partnership funding only through an instrument it shares with artificial intelligence and data. This is the single most consequential fact about European robotics funding, and it is structural, not budgetary. Shifts June 2021 Partnership signed Opening The Memorandum of Understanding between the European Commission and ADRA is signed, establishing the co-programmed partnership as the European focal point for AI, data and robotics. Sources: Commission européenne (Futurium, European AI Alliance) (2026-09-03)ADRA (AI, Data and Robotics Association) (2026-09-03) Last verified 2026-09-03
ADRA	Association	Outside any framework programme	BE	2021-05	No term	Running	0	Opening · 05/2021
The member count is published as "over 180", not as an exact figure, and is therefore left null here rather than rounded. ADRA's own site names CAIRNE among its five founders, while sources contemporary with the 2021 founding name CLAIRE: the association was renamed, and the date of that rename is not established by the sources consulted here. Full title : AI, Data and Robotics Association (ADRA)Coordinator : ADRA asblFunder : Cotisations des organisations membresFocus : artificial intelligence, data, robotics, European advocacyWhat it left behind : An association of more than 180 member organisations, the private side of the Horizon Europe AI, Data and Robotics partnership — in which robotics is one founding member out of five, alongside big data, machine learning and two artificial-intelligence bodies. Shifts May 2021 Founded Opening ADRA is founded on 21 May 2021 as a Belgian asbl by BDVA, CAIRNE, ELLIS, EurAI and euRobotics. Sources: ADRA (AI, Data and Robotics Association) (2026-09-03)Commission européenne (Futurium, European AI Alliance) (2026-09-03) Last verified 2026-09-03
euRobotics	Association	Outside any framework programme	BE	2012-09	No term	Running	0	Closing · 05/2021
euRobotics reports about 250 member organisations; the roster is not published on its public site, so no member of this Atlas can be attached to this entry as a sourced partner. The association has no end date: it is the permanent structure that outlived the programme it signed. Full title : euRobotics AISBLCoordinator : euRobotics AISBLFunder : Cotisations des organisations membresFocus : European robotics community, strategic research agenda, European Robotics Forum, industry representationWhat it left behind : The European Robotics Forum, the strategic research agenda of European robotics, and the representation of the sector in Brussels — but no public-private partnership of its own since SPARC ended in 2020. Shifts September 2012 Founded Opening euRobotics is established in September 2012 as a Brussels-based international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics. December 2013 Partnership signed Opening euRobotics signs SPARC with the European Commission: EUR 700M dedicated to robotics for 2014-2020. May 2021 Partner change Closing euRobotics becomes one of five founding members of ADRA. European robotics stops being the counterpart of its own partnership and becomes a fifth of an association covering AI, data and robotics. Sources: euRobotics AISBL (2026-09-03)euRobotics AISBL (page SPARC) (2026-09-03) Last verified 2026-09-03

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Why does this page exist when CORDIS already publishes every European project?

Because CORDIS knows contracts and does not know robots. It publishes the grant agreement, the budget, the dates and the list of legal entities, in full and as open data: no page here will beat it on that. What it cannot tell you is which of the organisations you already follow a programme gathered, or what survived the programme once its funding stopped. Each entry therefore carries two lists: the partners that already have an entry in this Atlas, with the role each played, and the partners that do not. The second list is the honest measure of how much of a programme this Atlas actually sees.

Does European robotics still have a programme of its own?

No, and that is the fact this page is built around. SPARC, signed on 17 December 2013 between the Commission and euRobotics, put EUR 700M behind robotics alone for 2014-2020, matched by roughly triple that from industry. It ended in December 2020. The instrument that replaced it, signed with ADRA in June 2021, covers artificial intelligence, data and robotics together, and euRobotics is one of five founding members of that association. The change is structural, not budgetary: robotics no longer has a counterpart seat, it has a fifth of one.

How is the status computed, and will these entries age badly?

The status is never stored: it is computed at every build from the end date — closed once that date has passed, ending within six months, active beyond that or when no end date is published at all. A hand-written status would already be wrong the day it was typed: CORDIS gives euROBIN until 31 December 2026 while DLR announces 30 June 2026, and this page shows both instead of picking one. As for ageing: an entry whose value is 'this programme is running' dies on its end date, which is why every entry carries a 'what it left behind' field. A dated, sourced archive is the opposite of stale data — nobody else keeps one.

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