Get to know the intelligent robot for labautomation of the future

CH-Basel | The aim of the TraceBot project is to develop laboratory robots that fulfil the criterion of traceability and are therefore suitable for use in laboratory environments and other fields of application with high safety and flexibility requirements. On 26-27 June 2024, representatives of the TraceBot consortium will present the project at the international trade fair Future Labs Live in Basel.

The objective of TraceBot is to bring verifiable actions to robot manipulation by reasoning over sensor-actor trails in a traceability framework based on digital-twin technology and extend current robot motion planners with the automatic execution of self-checking procedures that create a semantic trace of the actions performed. The goal is to create robotic systems able to understand what they perceive and do, to ensure that any manipulation action is verified, thus meeting the needs of the regulated environment.

The TraceBot project is aimed at companies of all sizes, from SMEs to internationally operating corporations. They can all benefit from the results of the funding project, as TraceBot is designed to offer an intelligent robot solution that can be easily integrated into existing laboratory facilities and brings them one step closer to the automated laboratory of the future.

TraceBot will now present itself for the first time at the renowned Future Labs Live trade fair in Basel. All interested parties, such as robotics experts, but also laboratory users, scientists and students, are cordially invited to meet the TraceBot-team and discuss the challenges and goals of modern laboratory automation.

The TraceBot consortium representatives are looking forward to a lively exchange at booth number 108!

German press release HERE

About TraceBot

The EU funded TraceBot project aims at addressing healthcare-related processes, and more exactly the membrane-based sterility testing process. The objective of TraceBot is to bring verifiable actions to robot manipulation by reasoning over sensor-actor trails in a traceability framework based on digital-twin technology and extend current robot motion planners with the automatic execution of self-checking procedures that create a semantic trace of the actions performed. The goal is to create robotic systems able to understand what they perceive and do, to ensure that any manipulation action is verified, thus meeting the needs of the regulated environment.

The TraceBot project brings together six strong partners from five countries: Astech Projects Limited (England), the health network BioLAGO (Germany), Commissariat à l‘Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (France), Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain), Invite GmbH (Germany), Technische Universität Wien (Austria) and Universität Bremen (Germany) and is being guided by representatives of the pharmaceutical industry. Each partner contributes its own expertise by providing a solution working hand-in-hand with each other partner’s solution. This cooperation will permit the development of tactile grippers for handling medical products, the design of a set of manipulation skills to execute the regulatory checking actions for every assembly step, the generation of an intuitive programming method for a quick adaptation to novel products and tasks and, last but not least, the development of a reasoning framework to monitor and control the safe and failure-resistant operation of the robot system, in order to meet the need of safety-critical automation. The TraceBot project’s coordination, communication and dissemination is carried out by the health network BioLAGO (Germany).

More information on the TraceBot Website

Funded by

TraceBot receives funding from the European Union‘s H2020-EU.2.1.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP programme (grant agreement No 101017089), 2021-2025

Contact

BioLAGO e.V. - the health network
Maike Neumann
Projectmanagement
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