Advances in Robotics Research: From Lab to Market: ECHORD++: Robotic Science Supporting Innovation

In this book Part I presents first an overview of the ECHORD++ project, with its mission and vision together with a detailed structure of its functionalities and instruments: Experiments, Robotic Innovation Facilities and Public end—user Driven Technology Innovation PDTI.

Chapter 1 explains how the project is born, the partners, the different instruments and the new concept of cascade funding projects. This novelty made ECHORD++ a special project along the huge number of research groups an...