AI-PRISM comprises 25 partners (#AIPRISM25) from 12 countries committed to improving manufacturing workers’ lives through human-centred and AI-based solutions. From educational institutions to research and technology organisations, robot manufacturers, industries and use case providers, this interdisciplinary team combines strong expertise in large national and international innovation projects. Representing all EU manufacturing value chains, they have all the key competencies to develop the collaboration ecosystem between humans and robots.
All this hard work needs a Project Coordinator who will be at the frontline of AI-PRISM, ensuring that all members participate, innovate, collaborate, and accomplish a common objective: turning the manufacturing industry and its SMEs into smart through digitalisation. So today, we have a short interview with Ana Gonzalez, Project Coordinator of AI-PRISM, who, in addition to replying to our questions, closed with an inspiring message. Find it out here:
What is AI-PRISM about, and what are its objectives and expected results?
AI-PRISM is an industrial-end-user-driven project aiming to achieve a seamless collaboration between humans and robots. This will be done in different manufacturing scenarios, including Furniture, Food/Beverage, Built-in Appliances, Electronics and one generic demonstration facility, with tasks difficult to automate and where speed and versatility are essential. The main result will be a human-centred AI-based solutions ecosystem in which safety, ergonomy and skills management will be emphasised through a Social Science, Humanistic, scientific approach.
What are the challenges of coordinating AI-PRISM?
AI-PRISM is a challenging project to coordinate not only for the significant number of partners but also because some are newcomers to EU funding, and not all have collaborated previously. Also, associated partners from outside Europe are part of the consortium, which is an exciting task to overcome because we all can learn a lot from aspects such as cultural differences or new ways of doing things.
In any case, lots and lots of communication is essential to be successful. Partners especially need to see the coordinator as a helping figure, not as a “dictator”.
What are your expectations of AI-PRISM?
I expect to create a big family throughout the three years of the project and that partners can collaborate smoothly and learn a lot, not only in the project aspects but also in the human one.
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