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AICOR Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI)

Germany

The institute anchors EASE (SFB 1320), the German Research Foundation's collaborative research centre on Everyday Activity Science and Engineering, hosted by the University of Bremen since 2017; it is also the Bremen partner named by euROBIN, and a different group from the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center based in the same city.

Updated 2026-09-03 · Last verified 2026-09-03

AffiliationUniversität Bremen, Fachbereich Informatik
CountryDE
TypeAcademic
Research areascognition-enabled robotics, knowledge representation for robots, everyday activity, robot manipulation plans
Flagship contributionPublishes the cognition-enabled robotics stack for everyday manipulation as open software: the CRAM plan executive, the KnowRob knowledge-processing system, the openEASE activity knowledge service, the Giskard motion planner and the RoboKudo perception framework.
Key peopleMichael Beetz (directeur de l'institut)
Open outputsCRAM, KnowRob, openEASE, Giskard et RoboKudo, publiés ouvertement, plus les données d'activité diffusées par openEASE.
CityBrême

Sources: AICOR Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Universität Bremen (2026-09-03)EASE (SFB 1320), Universität Bremen (2026-09-03)euROBIN (page institutionnelle du projet) (2026-09-03)

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