Consortium

The ANT consortium comprises leading members of large national initiatives (the ROBUST initiative on Trustworthy AI-based Systems for Sustainable Growth, the Convergence AI, Data & Digitalisation, and the Dutch AI Coalition in the Netherlands, etc.), the recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant on Mobile Healthcare, and world-leading industrial robot manufacturer, leading semiconductors manufacturer, international leader in patient monitoring and health informatics, precision manufacturing and digitalization expert, etc. ANT tackles the interdisciplinary nature of Embedded AI through a diverse and complementary group of experts in theoretical and experimental aspects of computer science, electrical engineering, and robotics engineering. Furthermore, the presence of academic and industry leaders in experimental verification, prototyping, and open-source testbed design of microcontrollers and beyond systems creates the essential training ecosystem for ANT, where the existing expertise and large testbed facilities of the consortium members satisfy the experimental nature of the topic and the lack of commercial prototypes. These facilities are key to transferring our innovative solutions in ANT from theory to practice and accounting for the intricate cross-system dependencies that can only be observed and evaluated using real-world implementations.