JARVIS Open Call 1 for external pilots
JARVIS Open Call 1 for external pilots
To strengthen the competitiveness of the EU industry, there is an increasing need for flexible production, exploiting the capabilities of both the machinery and human workforce. The growing market of robots has reacted, adapting to the changing situation by providing collaborative robotic solutions with a variety of characteristics in terms of payload, type and mobility. A number of technological solutions for perception and safety allow their coexistence with humans. While several research activities have been conducted over the past 5 years on this topic, wider industrial adoption is lagging due to the following restrictions: • Limited cognition and intelligence • Low performance of collaborative operations • Collaboration fluidity is rather low as the operators have to adapt to the particularities of the robots. • Complexity in robot programming which requires the involvement of skilled engineers, does not provide flexibility in the execution phase, and does not benefit from the tacit knowledge of experienced operators. Thus, despite the fact the mechatronics are quite advanced, a perfect matching of mechanics and control is required to create robots that advance from repetitive and precision-oriented tasks to becoming intelligent and helpful co-workers. Proper human robot interaction is the most important ground to be covered. Thus, JARVIS aims to develop a reusable set of tools that enable AI driven multimodal means of interaction: a) involving interfaces for physical and remote information exchange, robot control and programming, b) providing social skills to a variety of robots to achieve seamless user-centric interaction that extends human ability for complex tasks and c) demonstrating scalability of application and ability to achieve economies at scale.
Entité de financement
Commission Européenne - Horizon EuropeClôture de l'appel
5 mai 2025Zone géographique
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Objectif
The 1st Open Call (OC1) of JARVIS will fund 8 external pilots, focusing on extending beyond the challenges addressed in the context of the four JARVIS pilots (Aeronautics, Automotive, Nuclear, Offshore energy). Specifically, it aims to support third parties in the development and implementation of innovative solutions through funding, mentoring, and access to project’s digital tools, while demonstrating the replicability and sustainability of the JARVIS framework.
The 8 pilots that will be selected for funding are expected to build value added services or products benefiting from the components of the JARVIS framework leveraging technology providers’ and end-users’ expertise on specific market segments.
Critères d'éligibilité
JARVIS will fund third-party projects forming a team of 2 or 3 organisations including:
• Mandatory: 1 SME/Startups as a pilot leader (serving also as Technology Integrator/Provider/Developer).
• Mandatory: 1 Industry End-user (serving as Technology Adopter).
• Optionally: 1 Research organization providing technology/ expertise, which is accepted if and only if there is already one technology adopter and one SME technology provider in the
consortium.
These entities are eligible under the following conditions:
• An organization based in the EU or any Horizon Europe associated member state.
• A SME following the EU definition by the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC.
Technologies clés
The funded pilots should fit in one of the 7 topics defined by the JARVIS Consortium :
Agile Manufacturing
1. Human Augmentation and Assistance for Safe and Adaptive Manufacturing
2. Agile Collaborative Robotics for Logistics and Warehousing
3. Generative AI and Human-Robot Collaboration for More Efficient and Scalable Remanufacturing
AI Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance
4. Inspection and Maintenance of Plants, Infrastructure Areas, and Linear Infrastructure
5. Inspection and Maintenance of Industrial and Public Sector Assets and Equipment
6. Inspection Solutions for Assisted Inline Quality Assessment
7. Open Topic and Novel Domain: For innovative proposals that do not fit within the core pillars but align with the overall goals of the Open Call. This is an opportunity for groundbreaking ideas in novel domains.
Typologie de consortium
Each project will last 10 months and receive funding of up to EUR 130K.
The idea is to reach TRL7 by demonstrating the proposed solutions onsite or at relevant testbeds, justify product-market fit, and support the comprehensive evaluation of the JARVIS tools by including end-users at the centre of the pilot’s deployment and validation.