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    The congestion charge zone might irk many London drivers but the move towards traffic-free streets in Europe's cities has prompted the EU to fund a project that aims to use robots within urban settings.

    The programme envisions robots roaming city streets transporting goods to stores or acting as robo-cops, surveying areas for suspicious activity. The three-year project, called Ubiquitous Robots in Urban Settings (Urus), will design and develop a robotic cityscape that accommodates wirelessly networked robots that autonomously perform tasks, which might be too complex, time -consuming or costly for humans to do.

    The programme's lead researchers from the Technical University of Catalonia will demonstrate this networked robot system in a pedestrian area of a Barcelona city quarter when the project is near completion. Until then, the researchers are working with a European consortium to perfect the technologies needed.

    The project aims to create 10 unique robots capable of different tasks based on individual motion capabilities and types of sensors on board. Most of the robots will interact with people, so researchers are keen to design robots with an intelligent robot head that is capable of human-like expression.
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    With the use of visual sensors, on-board GPS systems and programmed 3D image analysis algorithms, a robot will not only be able to determine its location and move around city streets but will also have the ability to interpret and react to moving objects such as pedestrians or vehicles.

    The university will also contribute its experience with gesture recognition and the use of vision for human-robot interaction. The plan is for people to communicate with robots by phoning them on a mobile or speaking or calling them like a waiter. The robot will absorb this information with audio and visual sensors and respond by voice, an interactive robot screen or mobile phone.
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