The EU FP7 ROBOSKIN project: history, scope and sources

The European Commission CORDIS record is the controlling source for the grant identity, programme, dates, coordinator, participants, and funding. It lists ROBOSKIN under the FP7 information and communication technologies programme and the cognitive systems, interaction, and robotics topic.

The project is closed. Historical university profiles and publication databases can preserve useful context, but their dates or programme labels may differ; this page therefore uses CORDIS for the formal grant record.

The Springer chapter describes the project goal as developing and demonstrating robot capabilities based on tactile feedback from robotic skin covering large areas of the robot body. The research problem was not just a sensitive material sample: it included the availability of embedded tactile technology at a scale suitable for robot experiments.

The stated application direction included robots operating more effectively and safely in unconstrained environments and interacting or cooperating with people and other robots. Those are historical project objectives, not claims that every capability reached commercial deployment.

CORDIS names the University of Genoa as coordinator and records participation by EPFL, the University of Cagliari, the Italian Institute of Technology, the University of Hertfordshire, the University of Wales Newport, and TechOnYou Srl.

The 2013 conference chapter lists authors spanning several of those institutions. Author order and institutional participation should be taken from the original publication and CORDIS records rather than inferred from later web pages.

The chapter “The ROBOSKIN Project: Challenges and Results” appears in the ROMANSY 19 proceedings, volume 544 of the CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences series, on pages 351-358. Springer records DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-1379-0_43 and publication in 2013.

The chapter is a primary project-era source. RoboSkin.ai links to the publisher record and a university research profile so readers can verify the title, author list, abstract, venue, pagination, and DOI.

A project objective or prototype-era result does not automatically establish present-day product availability, body-scale deployment, durability, safety certification, dataset access, or performance on modern tactile-learning benchmarks.

For current technical decisions, use the historical project to understand the development of large-area tactile skin, then verify modern sensors, datasets, benchmarks, and closed-loop robot evidence separately.