<p>The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics is a Swiss nationwide organisation funded by the <a href="http://www.snf.ch/en/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Swiss National Science Foundation</a> pulling together top researchers from all over the country with the objective of developing new, human oriented robotic technology for improving our quality of life. The Centre was opened on 1st December 2010, and binds together experts from four world-class research institutions; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (<a href="http://epfl.ch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EPFL</a>) (leading house), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (<a href="http://www.ethz.ch/de.html">ETH Zurich</a>) (co-leading house), Universität Zürich (<a href="http://www.uzh.ch/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UZH</a>), Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (<a href="http://www.idsia.ch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IDSIA</a>) Lugano for a period of up to 12 years.</p>