ASTOUND Overview

Headquarters: Global Challenges.
Website: www.astound-project.eu
Industry: Research Services
Employees: 2
NAICS: Scientific Research and Development Services

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Machine Conciousness Attention Schema Theory Contextually Aware Chatbot Human Robot Interaction Awareness Engineering Natural Language Understanding

About ASTOUND

A EC funded project aimed at improving social competences of virtual agents through artificial consciousness based on the Attention Schema Theory. The goal is to pose the basis for effective collaboration between humans and machines, promoting machines from the status of tools to those of (empathic) partners. The ASTOUND consortium consists of Alien Venture Studio, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, University Medical Centre Hamburg and Ecole Normale Superieure. The ASTOUND project was awarded a EIC Pathfinder grant, under the umbrella of the Horizon Europe programme. This prestigious European funding scheme is dedicated to helping researchers realize an ambitious vision for a new technology with potential to create new markets and/or to address global challenges.