Holland Robotics is a national robotics community that aims to take the national collaboration between science, industry and robotics entities to the next level. With High Tech NL functioning as a catalyst, the four technical universities, the Free University Amsterdam and the University of Groningen have joined forces with the major industrial parties DEMCON, VDL Enabling Technologies Group, Philips, Lely and Vanderlande Industries. “This is only the first phase in joining the national robotics world”, according to Willem Endhoven, managing director of High Tech NL. “Another dozen industrial parties are set to join and we are open to all parties that wish to contribute to this initiative.” Arthur de Crook, co-initiator and managing director of the international robotics platform RoboValley adds: “Holland Robotics will ensure a better link between all robotics activities in the Netherlands and we are very pleased about this. This should result in a dynamic exchange of ideas and initiatives in the field of technology and talent. We are happy to use the strengths of RoboValley to support and endorse this initiative, this collaboration at a national level.”

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts, focusing on technology as an instrument of social change, guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

The RoboHouse community believes we need a new research and development practice to answer one of the most current questions in cognitive robotics and society: ‘How can we learn to create the world's most vibrant and attractive workplaces?' We have created an industrial environment on the TU Delft Campus designed to encourage learning by doing, where robot developments and the study of social processes can occur simultaneously.