NEWS
Final results of COROMA project – applying a cognitively enhanced robotic system to the manufacturing of metal and composite parts
It is been 3 years of intensive research in the COROMA project, funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European commission. The final meeting of COROMA was performed in Brussels in October 2019. Now the project has reached the end, project partners had the...
CORONEWS6 Newsletter now available
COROMA has published their 6th newsletter, with information on what the project offers to stakeholders, the summary of the project meetings held in the last quarter, information about an industrial demonstration to show the functionalities implemented in our naval use...
COROMA at CIRP 2019- 69th General Assembly, Birmingham
COROMA had a tremendous opportunity to present its research work at the CIRP GA 2019 from 18th to 24th of August 2019 in Birmingham. Some partners of the project, attended the International Academy for Production Engineering 69th General Assembly where apart from...
Industrial demo about how to sand a boat mould at Nantes
With only 2 months remaining before project ending, COROMA had the opportunity to organise, in parallel with La Mer XXL fair, a Technology Day and industrial demo and dissemination event to show the progress of our technical developments, focusing on the applications...
COROMA PARTICIPATES ON THE WORKSHOP ON THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS
COROMA has been chosen by the EU Commission to take part in the “Workshop on the Future of Industrial collaborative Robotics”. the event took place on the 1st of July 2019 in Brussels, in the Covent Garden Building. Our Scientific coordinator, Asier Barrios, from...
COROMA at 17th CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations
Our colleage Erdem Ozturk from The AMRC had the opportunity to present COROMA project at the 17th CIRP Conference on Modelling of Machining Operations in the topic of Robots in machining. During the Conference there were different on-machine demonstrations. In this...
COROMA partners exchange practical applications results on advanced robot processes
COROMA Month 30: visit to Stäubli, our robot manufacturer With less than 6 months left for the end of the project, the last General Meeting of COROMA is hold in the premises of Stäubli, our partner specialised in manufacturing robots. No doubt it is an anticipated...
COROMA developments will be disseminated at the European Robotics Forum 2019
The tenth edition of the European Robotics Forum is taking place in Bucharest, Romania, from March 20 to 22. With such an excellent opportunity to disseminate COROMA project results, within this context, two partners are presenting our work in research and...
COROMA partners focused on demonstration… and more
New year 2019 must confirm the work of project partners on the final demosntrations in September. COROMA integration phase is taking a bit longer that initially planned, in order to erase every technical burr that can spoil the merging of the final systems, but Padova...
CORO-NEWS 5
Here is the fith Newsletter of the H2020 project: COROMA project. CORONEWS informs you regularly about news from the consortium about developments in their research work in the fiel of Robotics, advanced production, and Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, and...
Collaborative research activities perfomed in COROMA, were presented in Basque Industry 4.0
In recent years, the Basque Government has defined its RIS3 Smart Specialisation Strategy which, among other things, covers the fields of specialised production based on the industrial fabric and the technological capabilities of the Basque Country. One of these...
Diving deep into integration and standardisation
The General Meeting corresponding to month 24 of COROMA was held in Santander, hosted by our partner ENSA. 26 representatives of our 16 partners attended the meeting to discuss the situation of the developments and agreed on a common work plan for the next months. The...
Experts opinion focused on practical applications of COROMA’s results
With the beginning of the third year of COROMA, its Independent Advisory Board (IAB) has reserved a day to review the progress of the work so far. The advisory work carried out at this meeting, scheduled between the official reviews with the European Commission, is...
Results on making robots an autonomous system
With the aim of making the robot become an autonomous system, some results have been obtained with COROSENSE, the module that recognizes the scene and the workpiece, COROHAND, which is able of dexterous grasp of multiple tools and objects, and COROMOB, responsible for...
Articulated industrial robots – elastostatic compliance calibration
COROMA project consortium considers standardization as an important and relevant topic for the success of the project knowledge tranference from research stage into practice. As the projects partners perceive standardization as an important tool to ensure the...
How digitization and robots affect the industry
Gorka Herranz from Soraluce, machine tool manufacturer, leaders in milling and boring technology, was invited to a event organized by Mondragon Unibertsitatea as a speaker, where vocational training proffessionals were awarded. During the speech Gorka showed the...
Exploitation and standardisation workshops
COROMA partners met at the KTH (Stockholm) to share the progress of the project after a successful mid-term review. All the work packages devoted to technical development have finished, and it is time to have a look at their results in order to focus on...
Disseminating awareness about Intelligent, flexible and safe robots for manufacturing industry
In the last months COROMA project partners have also been disseminating the project to different audiences in several events and conferences. In this way researchers, engineers, students and robot enthusiasts from all over the world, among other publics, have been...
COROMA projects present its exploitation potential at the midpoint of the project
COROMA WP leaders met again at the University of Nantes, at the midpoint of the project. This time, the goals of the meeting were to present to the review team the progress of the work accomplished so far, to show a practical demo at the workshop, to give a clear idea...
COROMA present at MACH18, the UK’s premier manufacturing technologies event
Dr. Erdem Ozturk, from AMRC presented and shared COROMA project's progress on Virtual Machining and Robotic assisted machining in MACH18, an event intended to be the destination of choice for engineers and manufacturers, bringing together the best of UK manufacturing...
Presence of COROMA at the European Robotics Forum 2018, 13-15 March, Tampere, Finland
On behalf of IK4-IDEKO, Javier Hernández, coordinator of COROMA project attended the European Robotic Forum at Tampere. The aim of this initiative is to Enhance the efficiency of manufacturing environments and further developing collaborative robots with the ability...
Facing the integration phase with a good collaborative approach towards a completely automated application
In the scope of this robotic project, which aim is to develop Cognitively improved robots for the flexible manufacture of metal and composite material parts, Work Package leaders have met in the “IUT of Nantes”, to review the work progress until month 15th of the...
COROMA project presented to Naval sector in Nantes
On the 13th of December 2017 , Vincent Desfontaine, from Europe Technologies and Benoit Furet from University of Nantes, have been invited for presenting the COROMA Project to a local conference on Naval Economic Challenges and Opportunities at the Techno Campus...
Looking for young talents to join the COROMA team at IK4-IDEKO Research Centre
Last Friday, November 17th, our colleague Xavier Beudaert attended the FMA, Future Job Forum in premises of ESTIA Engineering School in Bidart, looking for young engineers to develop their master thesis at IK4-IDEKO in the framework of COROMA project. Xavier presented...
COROMA project attracted the attention of Oil & Gas sector
Oil and gas and robotics specialists collaborated at the Oil & Gas Technology Centre’s Robotics Week from 30 October to 2 November to identify 15 potential projects that could accelerate the use of robotics offshore. This event connected industry, experts and...
CORO Modules Integration Workshop at IK4-IDEKO
On the 11th October, after having the 12 months General meeting, Modules Integration Workshop took place at IK4-IDEKO facilities. The main objective of the workshop is to progress in the definition of the integration structure. As a result of the workshop the Workflow...
COROMA project will present in Finland and Sweden advances in industrial robotics
In order to address the scientific and informative dimension of the project, COROMA officials will attend next year's Conference on Manufacturing Systems (CIRP CMS 2018) of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP), a leading body in research applied...
COROMA project was promoted at SOHOMA’17
This Workshop on Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing, took place on the 19th and 20th October in Nantes. The main objective of the SOHOMA’17 Workshop is to foster innovation in smart and sustainable manufacturing and logistics systems and in...
COROMA consortium met in SORALUCE
The 10th of October 2017, COROMA consortium met in SORALUCE, one of the largest machine tool and production system manufacturers in Europe (that has over 50 years’ experience in supplying high precision equipment and innovative solutions to many industry sectors),...
COROMA Project has received the first visit of his Independent Advisory Board
The meeting has allowed the COROMA Work Package Leaders to discuss with key representatives of different areas the project approach, work progress and future tasks to be done. Coming from the world of robotics (Roboconsul), research (ManuFuture), manufacturing (BAE...
COROMA presented in the EMO 2017 by our partners in the stand of SORALUCE.
EMO fair is the biggest European fair on machine-tools and related technologies: a first-class opportunity to make COROMA project visible to this driving sector of the European economy. Soraluce milling machine builder, and a member of DANOBATGROUP, used...
One step forward towards the construction of flexible robotic prototypes for manufacturing industry
AMRC KTC premises have witnessed our second WP leaders regular meeting. At month 9th, project is progressing at good cruising speed, as different WP developments aim to the goal of a single enhanced robotic system. WP leaders presented the work made by their project...
COROMA modules integration Workshop at AMRC
On 4th June, previous to WP leaders regular meeting, Integration Workshop took place at AMRC Knowledge Transfer Centre (University of Sheffield). The aim of the workshop is to progress in the development of the general supervision structure that will make possible...
COROMA project present at the open day of the Robotics Innovation Center
Within the scope of the OPEN CAMPUS 2017 of the University of Bremen on 17 June, COROMA project was presented at the open day of the Robotics Innovation Center In the period from 3 pm to 6 pm, interested parties have the opportunity to participate in one of the...
Technology Center IK4-IDEKO presents COROMA project to the Spanish Minister of Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda
Last Monday the 5th of June, The Spanish Minister of Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda, Mr Álvaro Nadal visited the Technology Center IK4-IDEKO. The purpose of the visit was to know first-hand the facilities and development plans of DANOBATGROUP, one of Europe’s...
COROMA in FoF Community day
On 16 May, EFFRA, European Factories of the Future Research Association, hosted Factories of the Future Community Day with the aim of enabling the community to share recent project results and exchange views on common challenges. The Factories of the Future Public...
Partners M6 meeting at BA Systemes
The 5th and 6th of April 2017, COROMA consortium met in BA Systemes, the most active French player in the field of internal logistic systems with automated vehicles, or “AGVs”, for the six month General Meeting and the first Exploitation Strategy Seminar. The...
Exploitation Strategy Seminar
On the 5th of April, BA Systèmes will hold an Exploitation Strategy Seminar in the frame of COROMA H2020 European Project. The sixteen partners of COROMA will meet to celebrate the ESS Exploitation Strategy Seminar in BA Systèmes facilities, Mordelles, France. The...
Intelligent, flexible and safe robots for a more competitive manufacturing industry
The COROMA European project, seeks to develop a new robot concept with capacity to carry out multiple industrial tasks autonomously. The initiative, that got underway at the end of 2016, has the participation of a consortium of 16 international partners, a budget of...
Increasing Role of Robots in Machining
Erdem Ozturk from AMRC with Boeing,University of Sheffield attended to the 2017 CIRP Winter Meetings celebrated in Paris between 15th to 17th February. He participated in the meeting of Scientific Technical Committee of Machines and made a technical presentation...
Training session about Stäubli robots
COROMA project researchers from The University of Sheffield, University of Nantes, KTH, ENSA, Europe Technologies, Soraluce and IDEKO attended a training session on Stäubli robots from 6th to 10th of March in Stäubli facilities in Faverges, France. The objective of...
COROMA project partners meeting at ACITURRI
The 25th of Jaunuary 2017, The COROMA consortium met in ACITURRI, Centro Tecnológico de Miranda de Ebro's facilities, for the first work package leaders meeting. The objective of the meeting was to present the industrial use cases in which the COROMA developments...
Work meeting in ENSA
COROMA research project partners visited Equipos Nucleares S.A. in order to define the industrial use case scenario and ensure that the project developments will be aligned with real requirements from the European manufacturing industry. Researchers from IK4-IDEKO,...
Job offer, University of Nantes, Coroma Project
The University of Nantes is looking for an engineer to work on the field of Mechanical Enginnering, Machining, Vibration analysis in the framework of COROMA project. COROMA project proposes to develop a cognitively enhanced robot that can execute multiple tasks for...
Looking for young talents to join the COROMA team at IK4-IDEKO
Last Friday, November 18th, our colleagues Xavier and Patrick attended the Future Job Forum at ESTIA university in south-western France looking for young engineers to develop their master thesis at IK4-IDEKO in the framework of COROMA project. During the event dozens...
Work meeting in Beneteau
A work meeting took place on October 21st, at Beneteau’s facilities in Dompierre sur Yon, France, to commence the specifications of the naval sector demonstrator. The meeting attendants visited the glassfiber boat manufacturing workshops from Beneteau and familiarized...
Kick-off meeting in Brussels
The kick-off meeting of COROMA project was held on October 4th-5th in the Spanish embassy in Brussels. Main objectives of the meeting were to set the official start of the project, establish relations between all partners, provide clarification about administrative...