Published 9 August 2024
ARISE (Agile, human-centric, and Real-tIme enabled open SourcE technologies advancing industrial HRI in Europe) is a Horizon Europe funded project that aims towards making industrial human-robot interaction (HRI) more accessible, cheaper, and easier to adopt. The particular focus of the project is in HRI in healthcare, intralogistics and manufacturing.
ARISE is a multidisciplinary project that aims to set the standards of human-centric, agile and ethical HRI. It employs and coordinates a set of different methodologies combining the development of technologies while considering social science ethical perspectives and attempting private sector penetration.
ARISE will
• address major application challenges from today’s industry,
• develop human-centric solutions, tools, and software modules which expand the state-of-the-art in industrial HRI, and
• deploy industrial HRI at scale in four testing and experimentation facilities and more than 25 workplaces across Europe through pilot projects.
Project duration: 01/01/2024 – 01/07/2027
Project objectives
• Open-source middleware: Developing robust real-time enabled open source middleware for HRI
• A Human-Centric framework for trustworthy and ethical development: Building a set of context aware specifications, recommendations and guidelines to ensure safe, ethical, and equitable HRI development
• Best-in-Class use cases: Deploying and maintaining Testing and Experimentation Facilities for the HRI solutions developed
• Open HRI toolbox: Providing an open library of open-source based AI modules for industrial HRI
• Flagship experiments: Piloting HRI solutions in concrete SMEs and industry in Europe, with strong support from the ARISE consortium
Demos Helsinki’s role
Demos Helsinki brings strong expertise in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) to the ARISE project. Demos Helsinki leads the development of the ARISE framework for human-centric and ethical HRI. This framework includes specifications, recommendations, guidelines, and reference use cases implemented throughout the project.
Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution to the ethical, legal, and societal (ELS) aspects of industrial HRI, the framework provides a toolkit to ensure contextualized, human-centric innovation at every stage of the project. It addresses critical issues such as privacy, ethical concerns, and broader social implications of industrial HRI.
Project consortium
The project is coordinated by CARTIF and the consortium includes the FIWARE Foundation, Politecnico Milano, PAL Robotics, Intellimech, FundingBox, Engineering, eProsima, Algebraic AI and Demos Helsinki.
Read more about the project and stay up to date via the ARISE project website.
ARISE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No 101135784.
Want to know more about this project? Get in touch:
Rita Latikka
Senior Researcher
rita.latikka@demoshelsinki.fi
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