Welcome to SPENCER, a EU-funded research project in the area of robotics. We are a consortium of six University partners and two industrial partners from five European countries. SPENCER will break new ground for cognitive systems in populated environments. Our research covers key areas of interactive intelligent systems such as perception of people and groups of people in sensory data, normative human behavior learning and modeling, socially-aware mapping, and socially-aware task, motion and interaction planning in unstructured real-world environments and from mobile platforms. In a final demonstration scenario we will deploy a fully autonomous mobile robot for smart passengers flow management at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

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Slideshow
Apr 2015: Impression from the third integration week at LAAS in Toulouse.
News
2016, Mar 09 - Mar 23:
SPENCER Robot at Schiphol Airport, Final demonstration.
2015, Nov 30 - Dec 3:
First Robot Deployment at Schiphol Airport.
2015, Apr 22:
Acceptance of our workshop proposal 'Social Norms in Robotics and HRI' at IROS 2015.
2015, Apr 13 - 22:
Third SPENCER integration 'week' at LAAS in Toulouse.
2014, Oct 30:
Third Steering Board meeting
2014, Oct 26 - 31:
Second SPENCER integration week at LAAS in Toulouse.
2014, Sep 8:
SPENCER robot platform arrives in Toulouse.
2014, Jul 4:
Review Meeting Year 1
2014, Jun 11 - 12:
First data collection at Schiphol
2014, Apr 7 - 11:
First SPENCER Integration Week at LAAS in Toulouse
2014, Mar 31:
Project brochure available:
[PDF, hires] and [PDF, lores]
2013, Oct 1:
First Steering Board meeting
2013, July 1:
Deliverable D7.1 done: web page and communication platform
2013, June 6:
First deliverable done, robot design process kicked off
2013, May 30:
First SPENCER paper is nominated for award
2013, April 8-9:
Kick-off meeting at Schiphol Airport
2013, April 1:
Project start!