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Paolo Dario

The BioRobotics Institute

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Pisa, Italy

Heading Towards a Robotics Infrastructure:

the Case of Tuscany Region

www.bioroboticsinstitute.eu

“The Role of the EU Regions in

Supporting Robotics” The contribution from the Regional Research and Innovation to Europe’s growth strategy

Brussels, October 30, 2013

www.bioroboticsinstitute.eu

12 Faculty

75 PostDocs

88 PhD Students

Enrico Letta (PhD in Political Science at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) Prime Minister of Italy

Maria Chiara Carrozza (PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) Minister of Education, University and Research

Tuscany, Italy A country and a region with an extraordinary wealth

of artistic and cultural heritage, deep attention to

preserving the environment and social relations,

excellent climate, good food and a relaxed, friendly

atmosphere favoring long and active life (highest life

expectancy in the world for males: 80.4 years;

second highest for women: 84.9 years)

Tuscany: the Land of Robots

Tuscany is not only natural,

historical and artistic beauties,

but also advanced technology

Peccioli, Tuscany: the lab town for robot validation

Clinical centres use robots for

surgery and

rehabilitation

Il Sole 24 Ore,

a major economics newspaper in Italy

Tuscany: the Land of Robots

Tuscany is not only natural,

historical and artistic beauties,

but also advanced technology

Robotic systems endowed with advanced

perceptual capabilities and intelligence are

used to cooperate safely with humans

Robotics technologies are applied to

preserve the natural environment and the

underwater human heritage

Il Sole 24 Ore,

a major economics newspaper in Italy

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Regione Toscana

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE TUSCANY

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SYSTEM TO THE

EUROPEAN CHALLENGES

Department of Research Coordination

Regione Toscana

www.intoscana.it/TuscanyEurope2020

Bruxelles, May 24, 2012 Workshop Tuscany-Europe 2020

Prof. Paolo Dario

Robotics and Biorobotics

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Robotics in Tuscany

In Tuscany research in robotics is

grounded on solid roots distributed

across the districts of Firenze, Pisa

and Siena. Tuscanian research

centers on robotics feature tradition,

innovation and passion.

Firenze Pisa

Siena

SSSA

UniPi

CNR

UniSi

UniFi

Six research institutions:

A network of internationally renowned research

institutions pursuing and addressing excellent

research and education, industrial innovation

and societal needs

http://www.robotics-in-tuscany.eu

Robotics

Researchers

(Permanent +

Graduate)

Active

EU

projects

Budget

per year

(K€)

CNR

IIT@SSSA 0 + 9 1 3.000

SSSA 10 + 228 30 6.151

UniFI 3 + 7 1 1.056

UniPI 42 + 56 18 5.528

UniSI 8 + 11 4 2.302

Total 370+ 54 18+M€

The Network RObOtics in TuScany

“ROOTS”

Humanoid robotics

Neuro-Robotics

and Neuroprosthetics

Biomimetics

Safe Human-Robot Interaction

Perceptual Robotics

Robotics for Diagnosis and Surgery

Upcom ing Events

SMI T2 0 1 2 , 2 0 - 2 2

Septem ber, 2 0 1 2 , BARCELONA- SABADELL ,

SPAI N.

Abstract submission deadline 7 May, 2 0 1 2

Details under, http://www.smit2012.com/

ARAKNES new slet ter

w w w .araknes.org

Array of Robots Augmenting the KiNematics of Endoluminal Surgery

EMBC 2 0 1 2 , August 2 8 –

Septem ber 1 , 2 0 1 1 , San

Diego.

Abstract submission deadline: March 1 5 , 2 0 1 2

For details, see http://embc2012.embs.org/

BioRob 2 0 1 2

June 2 4 - 2 8 , 2 0 1 2 Rom a,

I ta ly.

See details under: http://www.biorob2012.org/

I CRA 2 0 1 2 , 1 4 - 1 8 May St .

Paul – Minnesota, USA.

See details under: http://www.icra2012.org/

February 2 0 1 2 , I ssue no. 2

Project

Coordinator: Prof. PAOLO

DARI O (SSSA)

Coordinator of

Medical

Act ivit ies: Prof.

ALFRED

CUSCHI ERI

ARAKNES Website: www.araknes.org

Email: [email protected]

I m pressum

This newsletter is issued by the ARAKNES European Project.

W hat is

ARAKNES?

ARAKNES Project is part of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission and it involves 11 partners: SSSA (Italy), I CL (United Kingdom), UNI PI (Italy), EPFL (Switzerland), MT (Italy), STM (Italy), USTAN (United Kingdom), KST (Germany), NVN (Germany), UB (Spain), CNRS

(France).

The aim of the ARAKNES Project is the development of an innovat ive

robot ic plat form for

scar- less, or even

no-scar, surgery.

The 5 th Ham lyn Sym posium

on Medical Robot ics, 1 - 2 July

2 0 1 2 , South Kensington

London

Abstract submission deadline 2 8 March 2 0 1 2

Details under, http://www.hamlyn-robotics.org/

I ROS 2 0 1 2 , 7 - 1 0 October

2 0 1 2 Vilam oura, Algarve,

Portugal.

Paper submission deadline: March 1 0 , 2 0 1 2 ; See details under: http://www.iros2012.org/site/

2 0 th I nternat ional Congress

of the European Associat ion

for Endoscopic Surgery

( EAES)

2 0 - 2 3 June 2 0 1 2

Brussels, Belgium See details under: http://congress.eaes.eu/congress2012.aspx

UNI PI – com puter guidance and sim ulat ion pla tform

An integrated platform has been developed to integrate the

SPRINT robot with SIMULATION and NAVIGATION modules. The patient specific simulator allows to practice with the

surgical robotic platform simulating some steps of the

intervention (e.g., single port placement).

The patient specific navigator assists the surgeon during the intervention allowing him to control each part of the robot in

respect with the surrounding anatomy.

For the

SPRINT

assessment an

innovative patient specific

physical

simulation

platform with

silicone organs has been

developed.

After several in vitro optimization tests of the

electrochemical array for

ischemia detection, the

final prototype was tested under in vivo conditions.

This array, that integrates

one bioimpedance sensor

and two potentiometric

sensors for pH and potassium detection,

demonstrates a good

performance in laboratory

experiments, measuring solutions that mimic the

hard conditions found on

the stomach tissue. The

first in vivo test of the

array had shown a change on the

bioimpedance and on the

potentiometry sensors

due to the

ischemia/perfusion changes, which are

promising results for the

biomedical application of

these sensors.

The first in vivo test of the e lectrochem ical array

w as carr ied out successfully.

Robotics for Rehabilitation

Assistive and Service Robotics

Marine and

Environmental

robotics

Educational Robotics

ELS

Robotics Science and Technology in Tuscany

Robotics for Neuro-

development

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Industrial Leadership in Robotics in Tuscany

Tuscany hosts many excellent industries related to robotics:

• 83+ industries

oaverage annual turnover 5.500.000

o25 employees in average

• 28+ spin-off

Tuscany is the third Italian Region

for number of industries and

employees in the field of robotics

120.000+ units

sold worldwide

A new application

for industrial

robotics: robots to

sculpt

RobLog develops

technologies to automate

logistics processes

19 companies in the ICT-

Robotics Innovation Pole

1) Creating Innovation Poles

The Innovation Poles are groups of companies,

research organizations and service centers designed

to stimulate innovative activity by promoting intensive

interactions, the shared use of facilities and exchange

of knowledge and expertise, and by effectively

contributing to technology transfer, to the networking

and the dissemination of information among

companies that make up the Pole

The strategy of the

Tuscany Region towards

Smart Specialization &

Technological Districts

1) Creating Innovation Poles

The Tuscany Region has identified 11 Innovation

Poles, depending on the specific productive potential

of different geographic areas LIFE SCIENCES

TECHNOLOGIES FOR

RENEWABLE ENERGY AND

ENERGY SAVING

OPTOELECTRONICS

FASHION

NAUTICS AND

TECHNOLOGIES

FOR THE SEA FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS

NANOTECHNOLOGIES

SUSTAINABLE CITIES

MECHANICS

PAPER

ICT & ROBOTICS

The strategy of the




2) ICT & ROBOTICS Pole

The ICT & Robotics Pole is a network of over 500

companies, 22,000 employees of which 20% are

employed in R & D, 11 research organizations and

service centers for growth in the Tuscan market

sectors on ICT and Robotics. A network coordinated by

the Technology Centre of Navacchio, as the Subject

Manager.

The strategy of the




3) The Robotics Cluster

A cluster is a thematic and / or sectoral aggregate

between companies and research organizations

appointed to carry out functions of integration and

technology transfer. It is a sub-group of the Pole and

constitutes the advisory and guidance instrument for

the definition of technical, operational, strategic

choices of its Pole in the related field

The strategy of the




3) The Robotics &

Automation Cluster

25 Companies

4 Research Centers

(Scuola Superiore S.

Anna, and Pisa, Firenze

and Siena Universities)

COORDINATOR:

Scienzia Machinale

SCIENZA MACHINALE - Leader

Quadrifoglio S.p.A.

Prensilia S.r.l.

Opus Automazione S.r.l.

Brusa S.r.l.

Ekymed S.p.A.

Ma.Vi S.r.l.

Linari Engineering S.r.l.

LifeResult S.r.l.

RoboTech srl

Kayser Italia S.r.l

Tecnalia Research &

Innovation

Era Endoscopy

FASTENICA S.R.L.

TechnoDeal S.r.l.

EResult

AIM

HUMANOT

TEXE

ESANASTRI

UNIVERSITA' DI PISA

UNIVERSITA' DI SIENA

UNIVERSITA' DI FIRENZE

Powersoft

Belvedere

QB Robotics

Pitom

SCUOLA SUPERIORE S. ANNA

Rekno

The strategy of the




4) Technological Districts “The purposes of technological districts are the larger ones to

contribute to the development and coordination of local

competitiveness through research and innovation, and through

the partnerships between companies, universities and research

institutions in relation to a specific field of technology and

application. "(regional Decree)

In this context, the role of universities is to identify the strategic

lines of scientific-technological development of the territory and

promote its development.

The strategy of the




ICT & TLC LIFE SCIENCE

TECHNOLOGIES OF CULTURAL

HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABLE CITY

RENEWABLE ENERGY

MECHANICS AND RAIL TECHNOLOGIES

5) Towards Smart Specialisation

The Smart Specialisation policies are integrated

programs of economic transformation within the

strategies for regional development in the new “Fondi

Strutturali” (2014 – 2020) programming.

The ICT & Robotics Pole is preparing a Smart

Specialisation document with the contributions of each

Cluster which was identified, in particular the one on

Robotics & Automation.

The strategy of the




Infancy Maturity Old age

Neurodevelopmental bioengineering

Robotics at work

Robotics for frail age to prolong autonomy

Educational robotics

Surgery/rehabilitation

Search and rescue

Service robotics

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

Robot Companions for all ages

Preterm birth Extended independent life

Demographic Ageing

Social Necessity

Major Opportunity

••• 19

Dependency Ratio

•From 1:4 to 1:2

•80+ doubles by 2025

Cost of Care

•Up by 4-8 % of GDP by 2025

Human Resources

•Shrinking work force •Lacking 20 million carers by 2020

Empowerment

•Active Ageing

New Care Models

•Integrated care •Large Efficiency gains

Growth and Markets

•3000 B€ Wealth

•85 Million Consumers and growing

Robotics may be a solution to these societal needs. Provided that…

Research

Local

Administrations

Industry

Insurance and legal

regulations

Infrastructures to test robots in real situations

Citizens

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Societal Challenges

In order to successfully deploy robots it is necessary to involve, inform and

demonstrate to citizens and to public administrations that they will bring about

real benefits to society. Robots should be affordable, sustainable, dependable and

intuitive to interact with.

RoboLaw

The most important outcome of the

research will consist of a White

Paper on Regulating Robotics,

containing guidelines and

suggestions for the European

Commission in the field of regulating

emerging robotic technologies, in

response to the ethical concerns

regarding its applications

Collaborative Project FP7 GA 289092

Sustainable Welfare Roboethics

Roboethics is the ethics

applied to robotics, that is the

human-centered ethics

guiding the design,

construction and use of the

robots.

Roboethics discuss the

potentialities and the limits

of robotics to help building

a better human society.

Robotics technologies to improve

the life of people and help elderly

people to remain active and

creative

Deploying real robots in a real urban setting. The

experience of the FP6 DustBot Project in Peccioli,

Tuscany

The EU DustBot campaign in Peccioli, Pisa, Tuscany

- from June 15 to August 7, 2010-

- in the very heart of the town

with real users: 24 families and 10 business activities

95% of users declaring satisfaction and ease of use

Peccioli (Pisa): The RoboTown

The case of Peccioli as ONE

example of what a

ROBOTICS

INFRASTRUCTURE could be:

a lab town for testing robots

and robotic services

“RoboTown”

Robotic services High-tech

companies

School for designers of robots

and services

Theatre

Theatre school

Museum

Education

Virtous model of

ecosustainable

development

Wellness and

clinical center

Assisted residence

www.robotown.eu

19.11.

2013

ECHORD++’s aim is to help robotics community to work together very closely on an operational level.

New instruments will be used, such as:

Experiments

RIFs (Robotic Innovation Facilities)

PCPP (Pre-Commercial Procurement Pilots)

European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development

Europe has a long tradition of outstanding research and manufacturing in robotics. ECHORD (2008-2013) was installed as an incubator to promote innovation by facilitating the cooperation between academia and industry. ECHORD++ (2013-2018) will further stimulate this interaction between robot manufacturers, researchers and users.

RIFs are facilities for bringing researchers and industry in direct

contact with current and new users of robotics technologies.

The Concept of Robotic Innovation Facilities (RIF)

Advantages that a RIF offers:

• Possibility to have a ready-to-use

realistic test bed, anytime you

want

• Technology transfer/knowledge

sharing straightforward access

to robotics equipment and experts

to support bootstrapping and to

cater for knowledge exchange for

everyone and anyone who is

interested in robotics- no matter

how “unexposed to robotics they

have been before

• Specific technology-oriented

programs for spin-offs/SMEs

RIFs are facilities for bringing researchers and industry in direct

contact with current and new users of robotics technologies.


Advantages that a RIF offers:

What is the goal?

To build an “Innovation

Ecology”.

RIFs will attract new

stakeholder groups,

facilitate interdisciplinary

cooperation and address

longterm research fields.

Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA), Institute for Smart Digital Systems, Paris, France

RIF: Medical & Health Robotics

Target users:

• SMEs in medical engineering interested

in the latest robotics equipment and its

control as well as interface with

operators (doctors)

• Researchers who have an idea in the

area of medical technology and want to

test it in real environments

• Students from medicine, psychology,

biology who want to test an improve

real robots for medical use

• Health care institutions and end user

association.


Bristol Robotics Lab (BRL), Bristol, UK

RIF: Cognitive Workers

Target users:

• SMEs or larger companies

considering how to use robotics

in their processes and where

expertise or considerable

collaborative research is needed

to establish the industrial

feasibility and commercial

viability of the process or

products


Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

RIF: Outdoor Logistic, Urban Robotics


Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Pisa, Italy

RIF: Indoor & Outdoor, Logistic, Agricultural, Medical Robotics

Target users:

• Robot manufacturing SMEs and

companies (service robots:

autonomous cars, edutainment

robots, assistive robots,

components)

• Robotics researchers

• Sociology researchers

• Service providers (health care,

waste management, museum

management, public

transportation).


: PECCIOLI RIFs

Bio Farm

EredeCrecchi

Nursing Home

Ghizzano

DomoCasaLab

Peccioli Town

Bio Farm

Floriddia Farm of Stassano

Landfill Belvedere

Auxilium Vitae

Rehabilitation Centre-

Volterra

Kitchens Warehouse

Toncelli

Cisanello Hospital

Research Centre on

Sea Technologies and

Marine Robotics

: PECCIOLI RIFs

Cognitive Tools and Workers for Cognitive Factories Target:

Cognitive Tools and Robot Workers that can work on a diversity of tasks in structured environments, such as cognitive factories, labs, warehouses, landfill (i.e. Robotic worker in rubbish dump), etc .

What we offer: - Landfill of Belvedere

i.e.: Tools for the automatization of compaction process

: PECCIOLI RIFs

i.e.: kitchen assembly, transport and storage in the warehouse

Cognitive Tools and Workers for Cognitive Factories Target:

Cognitive Tools and Robot Workers that can work on a diversity of tasks in structured environments, such as cognitive factories, labs, warehouses, landfill (i.e. Robotic worker in rubbish dump), etc .

What we offer: - Landfill of Belvedere - Kitchens Warehouse Toncelli

: PECCIOLI RIFs

General Purpose and Robotic Co-workers

Target: Applications like personalised companion robots, “intelligent” teleoperators, assistants in a mechanical or car-repair work-shop, edutainment robot (robot guide and robot companion, in museum, in the domotic house and nursing home)

What we offer: - DomoCasaLab

i.e.: domotic house and personalised robot companion

: PECCIOLI RIFs




- Museum of Russian Icons

: PECCIOLI RIFs

i.e.: robotic museum guide





- Nursing home

: PECCIOLI RIFs

i.e.:robotic assistant for deambulation and daycare





- Nursing home

- Industries

: PECCIOLI RIFs

i.e.: industrial co-worker

Cognitive Logistics Robots

Target: Robotic environment able to provide a service for people in order to simplify the execution of specific tasks, such as logistics robots that provide autonomous transport of goods and autonomous transport of people (especially elderly people) in urban area, from streets to houses passing through condos (i.e. Robotown)

What we offer:

- Peccioli: from streets and squares to condos

i.e.: - Robotic services to assist in every climatic condition (helping in food and medicine shopping and garbage collection)

: PECCIOLI RIFs

Medical Robotics

Target: “intelligent”, adaptive and auto-navigating instruments for minimally invasive surgery, cooperating robots performing typical tasks in parallel in a surgical environment, novel interfaces for instrument control and multimodal feedback to/from surgeons, situation-sensitive assistance systems for surgical procedures, observation systems for tracking the steps in an operation room, etc.

What we offer: - Auxilium Vitae Rehabilitation Centre, Volterra

- Joint Open Lab with Telecom Italia on Disruptive Innovation in e-Health Systems, Pontedera

- Locomotion Disorders Laboratory, Pisa;

- Center for Micro-BioRobotics IIT @ SSA, Pontedera.

- Neuro-Developmental Engineering Laboratory, Pisa;

- Cisanello Hospital, Pisa

: PECCIOLI RIFs

Agricultural and Food Robotics

Target: Robotics can change the entire homestead or agricultural facility: thanks to the automatization of the entire process from the raw product to the finished one (i.e. from grain to flour to pasta; from fruit to beverage) and the development of agricultural robots for precision farming (i.e. automatized cleaning of barns, harvest, groom).

What we offer: - Biofarm Floriddia

- Biofarm Erede Crecchi

i.e.: automatization of process: - From seeding to final product

: PECCIOLI RIFs





i.e.: automatization of process:

- Collecting and cleaning processes - From seeding to final product

: PECCIOLI RIFs




- Farm of Stassano


i.e.: automatization of process:

- Collecting and cleaning processes - From seeding to final product

- Harvesting

: PECCIOLI RIFs

i.e.: Automatization of animal cleaning and feeding processes




- Farm of Stassano


: PECCIOLI RIFs

From excellent science and technology to validation in real circuits…

… to fulfil real societal needs and to materialize a new and huge market

From basic tasks to more demanding

tasks and to ‘dream’ tasks…

Up to 50 hours

per household

lost each week

with labor at

home

Forecasts predict a 2-digit

growth for the market of

robots, in particular for service

robots, and an even sharper

growth for HEALTHCARE

robots (in surgery,

rehabilitation, assistance to

elderly and disabled persons)

Conclusions

• Robotics is one of the 12 ‘Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy’ (McKinsey Report, May 2013)

Conclusions


• Robots can provide very useful services to citizens and contribute to a sustainable welfare system

• Europe is an undisputed world leader in research, education and industry (Industrial Leadership) in robotics

• The real exploitation of the enormous potential market of robotics requires additional research (Excellent Science), better education of innovators, and extensive tests and validation in realistic and real settings (Social Challenges)

• Dedicated infrastructures are needed to ….

From the Workshop ‘Heading Towards Horizon2020’, June 2013, by Philippe Froissard

Conclusions


• Robots can provide very useful services to citizens and contribute to a sustainable welfare system

• Europe is an undisputed world leader in research, education and industry (Industrial Leadership) in robotics

• The real exploitation of the enormous potential market of robotics requires additional research (Excellent Science), better education of innovators, and extensive tests and validation in realistic and real settings (Social Challenges)

• Dedicated infrastructures are needed • Several cases already exist of how these robotics infrastructures

could be implemented • The robotics community (academic, research, industry) is ready

and willing to extend these examples to a real distributed infrastructure of nodes in many different Countries and Regions throughout Europe

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