CENTRIS: Building Europe’s AI.Robotics Community & Ecosystem
The goal of Project CENTRIS is to build an AI.Robotics network and ecosystem, which will serve as a sustainable and impactful driving force behind Europe’s strategy for promoting translational research and innovation in the fields of AI and robotics.
Europe’s AI.Robotics community strives for maximum scientific excellence and translational impact along the entire value chain. Driven by strategic research missions, we aim to develop the robotic platforms and AI -algorithms of tomorrow that will help answer the grand challenges of our time.
Europe’s Milestones in AI.Robotics

Meet some of our leading scientists
Gerhard Rigoll
IEEE Fellow
Daniel Cremers
Leibniz Prize 2016
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Wolfram Burgard
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Leibniz Prize 2009
Roland Siegwart
IEEE Fellow
IEEE Pioneer Award
IEEE RAS Inaba Technical Award
Eckehard Steinbach
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Antonio Bicchi
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Carlos Balaguer
IEEE Senior Member
Alin Albu-Schäffer
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Dario Floreano
IEEE Senior Member
Aude Billard
ERC Laureate
Frank Hutter
ERC Laureate
Kostas Kyriakopoulos
IEEE Fellow
Marco Hutter
ERC Laureate
IEEE RAS Early Career Award
Bruno Siciliano
IEEE, IFAC, ASME Fellow
IEEE RAS Saridis Award
ERC Laureate
Alessandro De Luca
IEEE Fellow
IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
Helmholtz Humboldt Research Award
Alois Knoll
IEEE Senior Member
Raja Chatila
IEEE Fellow
IEEE Pioneer Award
Bradley Nelson
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Luigi Villani
IEEE Senior Member
Cyrill Stachniss
RAS Early Career Award
EXC Spokesperson
Davide Scaramuzza
IEEE Senior Member
IEEE RAS Early Career
ERC Laureate
Giorgio Metta
IEEE Senior Member
Alessandro Saffiotti
IEEE Senior Member
Jan Peters
IEEE Fellow
RAS Early Career Award
INNS Young Investigator Award
Thomas Brox
ERC Laureate
Anibal Ollero
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Danica Kragic
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Jean-Paul Laumond
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Begoña Arrue
IEEE Senior Member
AEPIA Member
Paolo Dario
IEEE Fellow
IEEE Pioneer Award
Michel de Mathelin
IEEE Senior Member
Sabine Köszegi
Member of the HLEG
Francois Chaumette
IEEE Fellow
Sami Haddadin
Leibniz Prize 2019
RAS Early Career Award
President Future Prize
Carme Torras
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Paolo Fiorini
IEEE Life Fellow
ERC Laureate
Stefano Stramigioli
IEEE Fellow
ERC Laureate
Bram Vanderborght
ERC Laureate
Cecilia Laschi
GNB Award
Oliver Brock
IEEE Senior Member
Alexander von Humboldt Award
EXC Spokesperson
Meet our entire community
Meet some of our scientific and international ambassadors
Elizabeth Croft
Ambassador
Australian Robotics Community
Ann Nowé
Scientific Ambassador
Reinforcement Learning
Guenther Knoblich
Scientific Ambassador
Cognitive Science
Nicolas Asher
Scientific Ambassador
Social Sciences
Henrik Jörntell
Scientific Ambassador
Neuroscience
Harold Bekkering
Scientific Ambassador
Development and Psychology
Wolfgang Koch
Ambassador
Signal and Sensor Processing
Virginia Dignum
Scientific Ambassador
Ethical AI
Barbara Caputo
Scientific Ambassador
Machine Learning
Mario Trapp
Ambassador
Software Engineering in AI
Romain Meeusen
Scientific Ambassador
Physiology & Ergonomics
Henrik Christensen
Ambassador
US Robotics Community
Cristina Becchio
Scientific Ambassador
Cognitive Science
Fabian Theis
Scientific Ambassador
Bioinformatics
Mark Coeckelbergh
Scientific Ambassador
Ethics
Hendrik Dietz
Scientific Ambassador
Molecular Robotics
Frank Park
Ambassador
S. Korean Robotics Community
Yoshihiko Nakamura
Ambassador
Japanese Robotics Community
Jianwei Zhang
Ambassador
Chinese Robotics Community
Barbara Mazzolai
Scientific Ambassador
Biology
Alena Buyx
Scientific Ambassador
Ethics
Albert Heuberger
Ambassador
Edge Computing & AI Hw.
Giovani Pezzulo
Scientific Ambassador
Cognitive Science
Yann Coello
Scientific Ambassador
Development and Psychology
and Educational Sciences
Andrea Bertolini
Scientific Ambassador
Law
Guglielmo Tamburrini
Scientific Ambassador
Philosophy
Claudia Eckert
Ambassador
Security
Peter Fratzl
Scientific Ambassador
Material Science
Elisabeth Pacherie
Scientific Ambassador
Philosophy
Denis Vidal
Scientific Ambassador
Anthropology
Johanna Seibt
Scientific Ambassador
Philosophy
The proposal CENTRIS was successfully submitted via the EU portal on Nov. 13th. We are now waiting for the evaluation of the EU, which will be due in March 2020. If CENTRIS is rated positively and the network takes up its work, you will be able to join and participate. Should you have any further questions until then please use the “contact” form on this website.
We are officially supported by:
Industries:
Vision
Intelligent robots for a better human future.
The grand challenges of our time, such as demographic changes, inhumane labor conditions, and preserving our planet’s ecosystem, cannot be surmounted by Europe’s member states individually.
Only united as an inclusive European community, allied through mission-oriented translational research and innovation, can we write the next chapter of our continent’s success story.
We aim to make Europe the home of trustworthy, intelligent robots, so that we may secure a better future for us humans and the planet on which we live together.
We are:
Principal Investigators in Europe
Institutions
Countries
The AI.Robotics initiative will create a network of reference platforms in the core scientific fields, initiate an educational program (Elements of Robotics) for training young researchers and the general public alike, and start an innovation program to strategically support Europe’s most promising start-ups and companies based on positions of strength.