The Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ROBIN) group has an active international collaboration through their Research Council of Norway INTPART project Collaboration on Intelligent Machines (COINMAC). The project involves leading partners in the US, Brazil, and Japan within the domains of artificial intelligence and robotics. COINMAC consists of a number of different activities such as short-term and long-term reciprocal stays by students and staff for collaboration in research, curriculum development, and teaching materials, guest lectures, and organizing intensive courses or workshops. This far, there have been for example long-term outgoing and incoming MSc student visits and partner professors contributing to the ROBIN course Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Systems (IN5490). Another example is the 9th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics that was organised in Oslo in August 2019 with several project partners among the organizing committee.
The initial COINMAC project has been running since 2017, and in early 2020 the consortium has been awarded continued funding for another three years. This will allow for further strengthening their international collaboration and allow students and researchers to get international experience.