Objective Natural stone industry has a crucial importance at European level, and the overall worldwide demand for natural stone products is experiencing a steady growth; however, in the last years globalization is transforming the competitive scenario at a fast pace, with high technology available to most of worldwide players, who are able to offer good alternatives at extremely affordable prices; quality alone is therefore not able to keep up with the price gap, and the result is that the traditional European sculpturing and artistic stone processing is becoming an endangered art.It’s mandatory that the processes of artistic stone processing urgently evolves technologically to remain competitive in the international market, maintaining the inimitable artistic touch, at the same time keeping up with the new industrial requirements in terms of productivity and lean manufacturing.The main goal of the AROSU project is to advance and facilitate traditional artisan and art-work with new technologies, helping the European stone industry to lower their production costs by automating various production steps through a new flexible production concept. AROSU will implement a novel production concept able to extend industrial robot usage as an active assistant during the complex and demanding artistic work of hard natural stone carving. This will be achieved through the implementation of a novel robot cell able to produce artistic looking surfaces by implementing the following core components. 1) new robot mounted pneumatic chisel tool; 2)automated path generation from geometry data provided by a design interface for architects and artists. With AROSU it will be possible to improve the competitiveness of the stone processing industry, by drastically increasing the production efficiency through a novel co-operative workspace, in which sculptors and the robotic work-cell can jointly work on the natural product, with a vast range of different products with different sizes. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitynatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometrysocial sciencessociologyglobalization Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2013-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2013 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator KLERO GMBH ROBOTERAUTOMATION Address Siegfriedstrasse 66-70 10365 Berlin Germany See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Holger Klempnow (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 503 315,00 Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BAMBERGER NATURSTEINWERK HERMANN GRASER GMBH Germany EU contribution € 265 885,00 Address Dr robert pfleger strasse 25 96052 Bamberg See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Hermann Graser (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window KUKA ROBOTER CEE GMBH Austria EU contribution € 8 640,00 Address Gruberstrasse 2-4 4020 Linz See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Erich Schober (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window G. GIBSON & CO LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 265 885,00 Address Barrowby lane gibson house garforth LS25 1NG Leeds See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Gary Cochrane (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window II A ULUSLARARASI MIMARI TASARIM YAPI UYGULAMA VE DANISMANLIK LIMITEDSIRKETI Türkiye EU contribution € 133 225,00 Address 100 yil mahallesi matbaacilar sitesi 5 34204 Bagcilar istanbul See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Baris Cokcan (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DORTMUND Germany EU contribution € 2 400,00 Address August schmidt strasse 4 44227 Dortmund See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Arnsberg Dortmund, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Esther Rahma (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ROBOTS IN ARCHITECTURE-VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG ERFORSCHENS AUSTAUSCHES &DER BILDUNG KULTURELLER & TECHNOLOGISCHER INNOVATIONEN IN KUNST Austria EU contribution € 2 400,00 Address Gfrornergasse 6 15 1060 Wien See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Sigrid Brell-Cokcan (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window LABOR SRL Italy EU contribution € 2 400,00 Address Via della scrofa 117 00186 Roma See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Giorgio Recine (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window
