The document summarizes an R&D project called ACROSS that aims to incorporate robotic services into social scenarios. The 27-month project has a budget of 6.2 million euros and involves a consortium of 13 organizations led by Treelogic. The objectives of ACROSS are to allow robots to anticipate user needs by improving communication and empathy between people and robots. It also aims to create intelligent systems that can self-reconfigure and modify behavior without human guidance.

1. TSI-020301-2009-27 Reunión Kick-Off 05/10/2009 R&D Project www.acrosspse.com

2. Index 1 ACROSS Project 2 Consortium 3 Objectives 4 Project Structure 5 Application Domains

3. Singular Strategic Scientific-Technological Project . Execution time-frame: October 2009 – December 2011 (27 months). Budget: 6,2 millon Euros . Consortium: 13 organizations (6 enterprises, 3 universities, 2 technological centres y 2 hospitals) led by Treelogic. ACROSS is aligned with HispaRob, eVIA and es.INTERNET Strategic Research Agendas Funded by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (TSI-020301-2009-27) and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)‏ 1. ACROSS Project

4. Index 1 ACROSS Project 2 Consortium 3 Objectives 4 Project Structure 5 Application Domains

6. 2. Consortium

7. Index 1 ACROSS Project 2 Consortium 3 Objectives 4 Project Structure 5 Application Domains

8. 3. Objectives ACROSS aims to incorporate robotic services into social scenarios allowing them to anticipate to user needs by improving communication and empathy between people and embodied agents. ACROSS will change the present conception of social robotics, which is at a s tandstill to provide pre-established services, taking the step to create intelligent systems capable to self-reconfigure and modify its behavior without human guidance using abilities for understanding, learning and remote access to software .

9. Index 1 ACROSS Project 2 Consortium 3 Objectives 4 Project Structure 5 Application Domains

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12. Index 1 ACROSS Project 2 Consortium 3 Objectives 4 Project Structure 5 Application Domains

13. 5. Application Domains Marketing Social Work Psycho-Affective Disorders Autonomous Living

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