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The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship Program 1 intended to advance our understanding of the brain. It is designed to run for a period of 10 years with strong collaboration between 116 partnering organizations from all over Europe. With total planned funding of roughly one billion Euros, HBP is a large effort with very complex problems and goals. As such, HBP effort is divided into 12 unique but interconnected research areas (so-called subprojects, see Fig. 1) designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between research laboratories across Europe [1].Experts in the fields of neuroscience, biology, medicine, computation, robotics, and many more combine their efforts towards common goals. HBP researchers have published over 250 academic papers since the program's inception in 2013, and many exciting research efforts are underway. This article will focus on the Neurorobotics subproject, which is led by Technical University of Munich and is intended to place computational brain models within virtual robotic bodies that can interact within simulated environments. Imagine a computational brain model being able to sense -see or feel -the world around it and richly interact -through movement or manipulation. The goal of the subproject is to help understand the concept of neurorobotics from computational neuroscience to intelligent robots and back.

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