Unfortunately EURON's funding runs out on 30th April, sothere is now very little opportunity for funding, except for travel reimbursement for attending the annual meeting.

EURON members are eligible for support of up to 700 €per institution/formal member to subside the cost of two people (at least one of whom must be a PhD student, otherwise the max. reimbursement is 350 €) attending the annual meeting.

In order to get this money you need to complete the Travel Reimbursement form and send it to EURON administrator Jeanna Ayoubi no later than April 15th together with the travel receipts. Note that the money can only be refunded to the formal EURON member, ie the account holder has to be your university/organisation, the money cannot be transferred to private personal accounts.

Travel connected with Special Interest Group activities is also subsidised.

The LeRoS-F project involves the design and development of an innovative modular joint system for dexterous lightweight robots with flexible fluidic actuators. The idea is that such robots can operate safely around humans. [ Technical details. ]

A novel and particularly safe inherently compliant fluidic actuator is being developed: the "Rotary Elastic Chambers" actuator. This actuator is of revolute type and thus suitable for compact robotic modules of different sizes and power.

The modules comprise a small number of fully integrated components with matched mechanical and electrical interfaces: fluidic vane motor, sensors, control elements, as well as electronic unit and control algorithms.

LeRoS-F was developed by the Institute of Automation of EURON member 60, the University of Bremen, in close collaboration with the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Institute (FWBI), Bremen, Germany.