1st Open Call of ARISE is officially open! Get your Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) solution funded

The 1st ARISE Open Call is now launched and offers a unique opportunity for your organisation to develop innovative HRI solutions and receive up to €200,000 in funding.

What is the ARISE Open Call?

The ARISE Open Call is a competitive funding opportunity designed to support the development of innovative human-robot interaction (HRI) solutions for industrial applications. We are seeking up to 13 projects that involve a collaboration between a SME/Mid-cap/Start-up acting as a technology provider and an end-user of any entity type.

Why should you participate?

  • Funding: Receive a grant of up to €200,000 per project.
  • Support and Mentoring: Benefit from a 12-month support programme designed to help you succeed.
  • Collaboration: Work with leading experts in the field of HRI.
  • Innovation: Develop cutting-edge solutions that will shape the future of industry.

We are particularly interested in projects that focus on:

  • Dismantling and assembly of high-value products
  • Complex Product Picking in industrial warehouses
  • Flexible Collaborative robots
  • Smart Programming
  • Enhanced robot functionality through multimodal HRI interactions
  • Fetch & carry tasks in healthcare environments
  • HRI for improving the efficiency of workers in high precision flexible tasks
  • HRI for improving ergonomics in high precision tasks

We are looking for teams composed of a maximum of 2 entities: technology provider + end-user.

  • Technology Provider: A technology provider is a company that develops and supplies the hardware, software, or other technologies needed to implement an HRI solution. This could include robotics, AI, or other relevant technologies.
  • End-User: An end-user is the organisation that will ultimately use the HRI solution in their operations. This could be a manufacturing company, a healthcare facility, or any other entity that could benefit from the use of robots to automate tasks.

We have pre-selected a group of end-users and technology providers in the Expression of Interest. These organisations have demonstrated a strong interest in HRI and have the potential to contribute to innovative projects. You’ll find them in the Guide for Applicants of the 1st Open Call.

Remember that the submission deadline is set at 17:00 CET on the 16th of January 2025.

We are also launching ARISE webinar to tell you more about the whole project, application process, and answer all questions live during Q&A session with our experts. Save the date and register today -> 7th of November, 10:00 CET! 

Submit your application here until 16th of January 2025, 17:00 CET:

Apply now!

Join us during our 1st ARISE webinar  – 7th of November, 10:00 CET

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  • 13 SME-led experiments, carried out in collaboration with industrial end-users, are advancing real-world human-robot interaction (HRI) solutions across 7 countries.

  • Solutions are tested in real-world industrial and healthcare scenarios, validating ARISE’s open-source middleware and SSH framework through practical proof-of-concept demonstrators.

  • Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) provide large-scale environments to validate outcomes and inspire future innovation models, ensuring practical, scalable, and industry-ready modules.

  • A tailored mentoring programme supports SMEs in technical integration, human-centric design, and business development.

  • First shareable modules — open-source, reusable building blocks for industrial HRIare expected by March–April 2026, enabling faster, cost-effective adoption across European industries.

 

The ARISE project, funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe, has entered a decisive phase. Following its successful first Open Call, 13 innovative experiments led by SMEs are now being implemented across seven countries, demonstrating the industrial added value of AI-powered robots in accelerating safer, more efficient, and inclusive industrial workplaces.

These experiments showcase the potential of the ARISE all-in-one middleware open, standards-based, and real-time enabled while validating the AgileHRI concept: combining agility, openness, and human-centric design to accelerate industrial adoption.

At the heart of ARISE are its Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs). These living labs serve as controlled, large-scale environments where HRI solutions are tested, validated, and demonstrated under real-world conditions. TEFs ensure that ARISE outcomes are not just conceptual, but practical and scalable, while also laying the foundation for the ARISE Community of Practice (CoP), a long-term ecosystem for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation transfer.

Through ARISE’s 12 month mentoring programme (2 rounds), each SME experiment benefits from targeted guidance in integration and interoperability, the development of reusable open-source modules, human-centric design, and business exploitation planning. This structured approach ensures innovations are technically robust, ethically sound, and market-ready, bridging the gap between early adopters and mainstream industry uptake.

These experiments showcase how ARISE is bridging the gap between cutting-edge robotics research and real industrial needs.…

1st Open Call of ARISE is officially open! Get your Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) solution funded

The 1st ARISE Open Call is now launched and offers a unique opportunity for your organisation to develop innovative HRI…

€10 Million invested in the ARISE project to develop Industry 5.0 for Agile Human-Robot Interaction Applications

  • ARISE will develop an all-in-one open source based middleware for agile, human-centric HRI.
  • HRI stands for human-robot interaction which stands for going beyond mere coexistence and cooperation and rather aiming towards collaboration within a shared workspace, ensuring an ethical and SSH (Social, Sciences and Humanities) friendly framework.
  • Deployment and maintenance of best-in-class industrial HRI use cases in four Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs).
  • The project is set up as a co-creative and community based development process offering European SME and startups up to 200.000 euros of funding, as well as mentoring and the infrastructure to work on their own use cases.


Valladolid, Spain, August 28th, 2024 – A consortium of ten leading European organisations in technologies and science launched the ARISE project. It is funded  with around €10 million by the Horizon Europe programme of the European Union, to facilitate the industrial landscape towards Industry 5.0, promoting resilient, sustainable, and human-centric work environments. The project aims to address major challenges faced by today’s industries by developing an all-in-one software middleware as a base for innovative, human-centric solutions, tools and software modules that advance existing industrial HRI technologies. 

Recognizing the strategic value of industrial human-robot interaction (HRI), ARISE aims to transform HRI from a perceived cost to a crucial asset that enhances both short- and long-term organisational goals. Over the next three and a half years, ARISE will deploy these advanced HRI systems at scale in four state-of-the-art testing and experimentation facilities and more than 20 workplaces across Europe. Thus, it will enable seamless collaboration between humans and robots on complex tasks, fostering more efficient and effective industrial operations.

 

Mireya de Diego, MSc Automation Engineer in European R&D Projects and ARISE coordinator, stated: “In ARISE we want to develop a new open software middleware that helps European companies to generate robotic applications in an agile and robust way respecting ethical and security standards to contribute to competitiveness of European companies, making human-robot interaction a cornerstone of industrial innovation. By investing in and advancing HRI technologies, we are not only addressing current industrial challenges but also setting the stage for a more collaborative and productive future“.

In a bid to accelerate the interest of collaboration among businesses and technologies on the market, ARISE is launching the first open call for pilots scheduled to open in October 2024. Through a Financial Support for Third Parties (FSTP) scheme the project will offer funding to European small and medium sized companies (SMEs) aiming to advance human robot interaction technologies as developers or end-users. Participating companies will not only receive financial support of up to €200.000, they will also gain access to infrastructure, expert mentoring and best practices  in robotics for manufacturing, healthcare and intra-logistics services. 

 

Joined forces of technological leaders

Ten partners from five European countries bring together a diverse group of industry leaders, academic institutions, and research organisations from technical and social sciences such CARTIF (project coordinator), FIWARE FOUNDATION (technical coordinator) are joined by eProsima, FundingBox, PAL Robotics, INTELLIMECH, Politecnico de Milano, Engineering group, DEMOS HELSINKI and ALEGBRAIC AI.  The collaboration  merges a wealth of knowledge and expertise to drive the development and deployment of cutting-edge HRI technologies. Their collaborative effort not only focuses on the technical execution but also places significant emphasis on the ethical implications and human-centric aspects, ensuring a comprehensive and responsible approach to innovation.

 

Objectives for the upcoming three and a half years

  • Empower the European industry, particularly the AI, data, and robotics ecosystem, with a robust, real-time enabled open-source middleware for industrial robotic applications, leveraging standards such as FIWARE, Vulcanexus and ROS4HRI.
  • Develop a human-centric framework and methodology for the design, development and assessment of trustworthy industrial HRI.
  • Create, deploy, and maintain best-in-class industrial HRI use cases in four testing and experimentation facilities.
  • Scale industrial HRI deployment through flagship FSTP projects, engaging HRI suppliers (startups and SMEs) and end-user companies across Europe.
  • Establish an open library of reliable open-source HRI modules and technology enablers.
  • Showcase illustrative HRI use cases and reference implementations in dedicated testing and experimental facilities.

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