# CORE — Cognitive Software in Europe > A joint initiative by leading European universities — TU Clausthal, Babeș-Bolyai > University Cluj-Napoca, and partners — advancing cognitive software, autonomous > systems, and machine learning research. ## Overview - [CORE — Cognitive Software in Europe](https://www.core-network.ai/): A joint initiative by leading European universities advancing cognitive software, autonomous systems, and machine learning research. - [CORE Labs](https://www.core-network.ai/core-labs): The laboratories behind the CORE Network: robotics, multi-modal egocentric perception, spatial reasoning, and robot learning across Goslar, Cluj-Napoca, and Rostock. - [Demonstrations](https://www.core-network.ai/demos): Video demonstrations of CORE research systems, from autonomous navigation and mobile manipulation to laboratory automation. - [Publications](https://www.core-network.ai/publications): Peer-reviewed publications from the research groups of the CORE Network on cognitive software, autonomous systems, and machine learning. - [Compute Cluster](https://www.core-network.ai/compute-cluster): Shared GPU infrastructure for CORE researchers: NVIDIA H200 NVL and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell nodes interconnected via NVLink, plus dataset storage and simulation environments. ## Research demonstrators - [DyNAMO](https://www.core-network.ai/dynamo): Dynamic Navigation & Autonomous Manipulation Operations — a mobile robot system that combines navigation and autonomous manipulation in unstructured environments. - [Leader Following](https://www.core-network.ai/leader-following): A mobile robot that detects, tracks, and follows a human leader through changing environments using onboard perception. - [Vial Sort](https://www.core-network.ai/vial-sort): A laboratory automation demonstrator: robotic perception and manipulation for identifying and sorting sample vials. ## AI Team Projects - [AI Team Projects](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects): Semester-long applied AI projects built by mixed international student teams — recommender systems, cognitive robotics, LLM agents, MLOps, and simulation tooling. - [TEMPO](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/tempo): A recommendation model that fine-tunes itself to each chess player's memory, learning to act as a personal guide to their opening repertoire. - [LECTRA](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/lectra): A planned course learning-platform demonstrator that combines course-material retrieval, a context-aware LLM assistant, and a lightweight model of each student’s topic-level learning state. - [FastMile](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/fastmile): A planned real-time routing platform that merges data from several mobility providers into one intermodal journey, and uses language models to handle disruptions, cancellations, and events. - [Visual Human Awareness Estimation](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/human-awareness-detection): A vision-based system combining person tracking, gaze, head and body orientation, motion, and gestures to estimate whether nearby people appear aware of a mobile robot. - [DyNAMO](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/dynamo): The AI Team Project behind DyNAMO: how dynamic navigation and autonomous manipulation are split into subsystems and brought together on one mobile platform. - [AI4BIM](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/ai4bim): Integrated web platform for IFC extraction, BIM question answering, XGBoost house-price prediction, room-image classification, and Stable Diffusion layout generation. - [Vergabepilot.AI](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/vergabepilot): Cost-aware tender data extraction across changing procurement portals, combining reusable scrapers, browser automation, AI-generated extraction, self-healing retries, and document processing. - [The Village at Scale](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/werewolfs): Training LLM agents to reason and negotiate in Werewolf, combining supervised fine-tuning from clean gameplay with reinforcement learning through self-play. - [NeuroCore Dashboard](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/neurocore): Next.js dashboard that queries cluster nodes over SSH, parses nvidia-smi and Slurm data, and displays GPU health, running jobs, storage, training metrics, and benchmark history. - [Stratego — LLM Based Games](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/stratego): Python benchmark that runs Ollama or Hugging Face models against each other in Stratego and logs prompts, moves, invalid actions, timing, outcomes, and player-position effects. - [Traffic Network Builder](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/traffic-network): Unity editor for assembling road layouts from reusable pieces, exporting OpenDRIVE 1.4 files, and loading the generated maps into CARLA with Python helper scripts. - [Self-Driving 1:10](https://www.core-network.ai/ai-team-projects/self-driving): A 1:10 vehicle testbed that combines SLAM, perception, path planning, feedback control, and autonomous parking in a compact end-to-end autonomy stack. ## Bartelt Lab (TU Clausthal) - [Bartelt Lab](https://www.core-network.ai/tuc): Research group at the Institute for Software Systems Engineering (ISSE), TU Clausthal, exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, and software engineering. - [Projects](https://www.core-network.ai/tuc/projects): Student research projects offered this semester at the Bartelt Lab, run on the Kaiser I cluster with travel, accommodation, and social event costs covered. - [Industry Projects](https://www.core-network.ai/tuc/industry-projects): Transfer and publicly funded projects at the Bartelt Lab, including AI-BIM, an AI-supported copilot for sustainable architectural design under environmental standards. - [Teaching](https://www.core-network.ai/tuc/teaching): Courses, seminars, and thesis topics offered by the Bartelt Lab at the Institute for Software Systems Engineering, TU Clausthal. - [Seminars](https://www.core-network.ai/tuc/seminar): Seminar topics and application details at the Bartelt Lab — send your Transcript of Records and topic preferences to apply. - [Theses](https://www.core-network.ai/tuc/theses): Bachelor and master thesis topics in artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, and software engineering at the Bartelt Lab, TU Clausthal. - [Join Us](https://www.core-network.ai/tuc/join-us): Open positions at the Institute for Software Systems Engineering (ISSE), TU Clausthal, for researchers with a strong background in computer science or mathematics. ## Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca) - [UBB Cluj-Napoca](https://www.core-network.ai/ubb): A joint research initiative with Babeș-Bolyai University in autonomous systems, intelligent simulation, and robot learning — a new home for cognitive robotics and embodied intelligence.