The European Robotics Week (ERW) was conceived at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2011 by the desire of the European Robotics community to bring robotics research and development closer to the public and to build the future Robotics Society. This year’s European Robotics Week will take place from 21-30 November 2025. Every year, local activities are organised and held all over Europe. Each year euRobotics and a local host organise a headline event in a prominent European location, as in Tallinn this year (3-4 December 2025), to provide a high-level point of focus for ERW.
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The Focus Event for the 15th edition of European Robotics Week will take place in Tallinn (Estonia) at the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) in collaboration with Robotex.
The euRobotics event will take place on 3-4 December 2025. It will include both activities open to the general public, with the aim of bringing robotics closer to society as a whole, and institutional events with representatives from administration, industry, research centres and academia.
The centre of attention will be on the social impact of robotics and technology. In keeping with European Robotics Week’s traditional areas of interest, this year’s event will spotlight the role of robotics in education, working life and society at large.
Immediately after the Focus event at TalTech, the international robotics festival Robotex International will take place from 5-6 December 2025 at the Unibet Arena. It is one of the world’s largest educational robotics and technology festivals, bringing together young innovators, researchers and companies from all over the world.
Over two days the Focus Event will offer:
- Workshops for schools and children – inspiring young people to take an interest in technology and science.
- Hands-on events for the elderly – to help them better understand and use digital solutions in their daily lives.
- High-level meetings, debates and a dinner for invited senior representatives and decision makers from a range of institutions – creating opportunities for collaboration between businesses, researchers and policy makers.
- Meetings with Estonian industrial policy makers – to discuss the direction for promising future innovation.
The event’s broader aim is to bring robotics closer to society as a whole by raising awareness of the potential of robotics and to support collaboration between research, education and industry.
About the European Robotics Week
The European Robotics Week (ERW) was conceived at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2011 by the desire of the European Robotics community to bring robotics research and development closer to the public and to build the future Robotics Society. Since then and every year, the ERW has offered one week of various robotics related activities across Europe for the general public, highlighting the growing importance of robotics in a wide variety of application areas and the growing importance of skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
STEM subjects are increasingly becoming an important part of basic literacy in today’s knowledge society, and we need to continue developing and growing Europe’s future scientists and researchers to close a skills gap, which by 2020 will require us to have an additional one million individuals! ERW therefore aims at inspiring technology education in students of all ages to pursue careers in STEM-related fields.
Science education can no longer be viewed as an exclusive endeavour for future scientists or engineers. It has to engage in dialogue on science-driven societal issues, since only science-conscious citizens can make informed decisions.
Why Robots?
Simply because Robots occupy the minds of everyone. Tens of thousands of school children in Europe, who may have no interest in technical subjects, change their mind as a result of these essential interactions. The interaction with robots complements the overall teaching experience and helps to motivate young people of any age to learn not only the basics of STEM, but also to direct them on to an independent exploratory, self-motivated learning path.
Stimulating this key sector, especially through the youth and all grown-ups who want to join the many tours and events, has another, equally important effect: to raise awareness of the type of impact that robots can have in our society. Robotics provides a solution to many of the current and future societal challenges, such as: working in dangerous fields of work, or taking care of disabled and elderly people.
The robot ambassador of the ERW
The robot “Ari” from Pal Robotics is the ambassador of the Week as of 2021.
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#ERW2017 in Duborvnik, Croatia (press release by Futura)
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#ERW2017: robotics as a social inclusion tool in Spain (Press release by Hisparob)
The European Robotics Week #ERW2017: activities at Politecnico di Milano
Workshop presentations: How regions can benefit from robotics and how the EU can support innovation processes (#ERW2017)
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History of the ERW
The European Robotics Week, #ERW, celebrated its 10th edition at #ERW2020. The central event took place online and its theme was “Robotics For Humanity”. Watch the video showing the history of the ERW Central Events. The European Robotics Week Central Event has been organised every year since 2014.
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