Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing — Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges
Pays one European consortium EUR 18 million to run a three-stage robotics competition, with automotive as a required use case, that re-grants up to EUR 3 million per finalist team to smaller developers who compete in it.
The lead consortium applies under the Research and Innovation Action route and receives the full EUR 18 million; the Commission funds one such project. The consortium then runs an open call where up to 10 competitors per challenge win a EUR 200,000 grant to reach Stage 2, and the 3 best from each challenge win a EUR 1,000,000 grant for the Stage 3 grand finale — so a robotics team wanting the comp…
The Commission wants a consortium of manufacturing and robotics organisations, including automotive companies, to define three technical robotics-skills challenges (such as high-precision pick-and-place or human-robot collaboration) and run a multi-stage competition around them. It wants the resulting robotics-foundation-model-based solutions to be reconfigurable across different manufacturing settings, not tied to one factory.
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