RobotUnion was a project funded under the Horizon 2020 program in 2018 (Grant Agreement no 779967), Its main goal was to stimulate SMEs in the robotics sector to develop novel and challenging technology and systems applicable to new markets: manufacturing, civil engineering, agri-food and healthcare.
The starting date was 1 December 2000, with the network's first meeting taking place in Las Palmas, Spain, on 18 and 19 January 2001.
The goal of the network is to stimulate and promote research, education, and technology transfer of robotics in Europe.
EURON members were partners in euRobotics with EUROP, a Coordination Action (CA) funded by the EC to help achieve those goals.
"[6] This project aims to solve also combine the work of a highly interdisciplinary consortium involving neuroscientists, psychologists, roboticists, and machine-learning researchers.
From 2010 to 2012, The European Robotics Coordination Action (euRobotics CA), an EU project within the Seventh Framework Programme of the Information and Communication Technology, supported EUROP.