The ARISE project is designed to simplify, reduce costs, and accelerate the deployment of industrial human-robot interaction (HRI) across Europe. At its core, ARISE introduces AgileHRI, a flexible, scalable, and real-time enabled open-source middleware that facilitates the seamless integration of robotics into industrial environments. To validate its impact, ARISE is conducting large-scale demonstrations in four internal Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) and more than 25 (FSTP) funded projects across Europe, covering diverse industries such as automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare. A key aspect of these pilots is the creation of the so-called ARISE All-in-one Middleware, which combines open technologies such as ROS2, FIWARE, and ROS4HRI to create a unified and standardized framework for industrial HRI applications. This middleware enables seamless communication, real-time data exchange, and enhanced interoperability between robots, sensors, and human operators, ensuring adaptability to various industrial scenarios. These pilots will showcase the scalability, flexibility, and economic benefits of AgileHRI while gathering essential user feedback to refine and optimize the solution.
Beyond technological innovation, ARISE integrates social sciences and humanities (SSH) through a structured ethical framework, ensuring HRI solutions are trustworthy, inclusive, and aligned with European ethical, legal, and societal (ELS) principles. This framework provides guidelines, tools, and impact assessments to support responsible innovation. The ARISE external ethics committee oversees compliance, conducting periodic ethics reviews and refining methodologies based on real-world insights from TEFs.
By fostering open-source collaboration, industry-standardization efforts, and ecosystem-building initiatives, ARISE contributes to the European AI, data, and robotics strategy. The project’s expected impact includes lowering the entry barriers to industrial HRI, increasing adoption rates, and ensuring long-term sustainability through a growing network of stakeholders. Ultimately, ARISE paves the way for safer, more efficient, and ethically responsible human-robot collaboration at scale.
