SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1
Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.
SPRIND's largest open challenge, and an explicitly European answer to the billions going into closed robotics systems in the US and China. Track 1, Integrated Platforms, asks teams to orchestrate sub-components into complete multi-purpose robots that handle complex commercial use cases. Track 2, Hardware Components, is for novel hardware — gripping systems, sensors, joints — that delivers a radica…
Two tracks: complete multi-purpose robot platforms that handle real commercial tasks, and novel hardware components — grippers, sensors, joints — that beat the state of the art outright.
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