11/09/2025
On 1 September 2025, the JARVIS consortium brought together all eight pilot consortia selected under Open Call 1 for an online Bootcamp. The event marked the official launch of the pilot projects’ journey, and each representative had the chance to introduce their ideas, getting to know the support available, and setting up mentoring and collaboration structures.
The Bootcamp served to kick off mentoring relationships and collaboration processes between the pilots and JARVIS consortium members, so that pilots can access guidance, tools, and validation support.
Below is an overview of each of the eight winning pilot projects, their focus, and what they bring to the future of safe, human‑centric robotics in Europe. Each one will deploy AI‑driven human‑robot collaboration tools in real industrial or manufacturing settings.
Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robotic Inspection of Electrical Substations
Multidisciplinary team with proven expertise in robotics, human–machine interaction, and energy infrastructure. The consortium is composed by ATHENA/Institute of Robotics, Castalia, and IPTO. The project will allow end-users to make the transition from traditional time-based maintenance to a modern, condition-based maintenance (CBM) model. The solution facilitates real-time monitoring and maintenance during operation, optimizing equipment usage, minimizing unexpected outages, and significantly increasing system availability and productive uptime.
The consortium is composed by PAL, specialized in designing, manufacturing, and deploying humanoid and service robots, and Cetriko, expert in supply chain operations, textile innovation and industrial process optimization. CO-HAND is a pilot project aiming to implement semi-automated cone handling, promote safe human-robot collaboration, reduce physical strain & improved ergonomics, and increased efficiency & smoother logistics.
Electronic Appliance Recovery using Teams of Humans and Robots
EuroDAO, deep‑tech/AI‑robotics company, and SUEZ, a global environmental services company mainly operating in water and waste management, are part of the consortium. The expected results of this pilot project are Electronic Appliance Recovery using Teams of Humans and Robots.
Development of a Float Arm link with an integrated EMAT sensor for inspection of industrial plants and assets
The goal is to develop a novel robotics-based system to enable the semi-autonomous and remote inspection of assets in oil & gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, and other industrial plants. The consortium is made up of Hibot, a venture from the Tokyo Institute of Technology with the mission to create a safer and sustainable world with robotics, and BASF, the world’s largest multinational chemical company.
QUality Assurance with Robotic Knowledge
IDEA is an Italian SME specialized in robotic systems integration, artificial intelligence, and advanced vision solutions for industrial automation; GERMANPLAST is an Italian manufacturing SME with extensive expertise in plastic molding and high-quality component production. The QUARK project aims to reduce inspection setup and reconfiguration time (≥30%).
Flexible automation solutions for the inspection of products during the initial phase of the remanufacturing process
RE-PAIR expected results are the quality control system to integrate robotic automation and AI vision to handle repetitive inspection tasks efficiently in the remanufacturing process of gear motors. The consortium is composed by Deep Vision Consulting, a consulting company and a solution provider revolving around computer vision, and Bonfiglioli, global leader in design and manufacturing of mechanical power transmission systems for industrial applications.
RObot supported DIsinfection of medical devices
In 2023, 16.53 million operations were performed in German hospitals. Many manual steps are required to clean, disinfect, test, sterilize and pack the surgical instruments. Surgical instruments are delivered partly disorderly in trays, are picked up by employees and prepared for the sterilization process. The expected impact is to relieve for infectious and monotonous work for the employee and develop a solution for labor shortage in medical sector. The partners in this consortium are UR & KUKA, leading industrial robot manufacturers, and Aesculap, which designs and manufactures high-precision surgical and medical instruments.
Teleoperation for welders
TELEWELDER will be developed by a consortium composed by LS Group, aa company specializing in the development of immersive simulation, virtual reality training and 3D configurators, and Naval Group, major player at the international in the design, manufacturing and maintenance for naval shipyard and submarines. They aim to develop a human assistance welder system for safe operations and adaptive manufacturing and offer better working conditions to Naval of defense’s workers.
As these eight pilots get underway, the JARVIS consortium is preparing for Open Call 2. If you’re a startup, SME, or industrial organisation with innovative ideas in human‑robot collaboration, keep an eye out on the JARVIS website as the next call will soon be open for applications!
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