ESMERA funds SMEs developing robotics solutions

The solution design and evaluation will be carried out in two competitive phases. In phase I, the best experiments need to proof their concept. Phase II makes winners advance in Industrial Leadership and Business Support.

September 2nd, 2019. The EU funded robotics project ESMERA (European SMEs Robotics Applications) has opened its second open call. Within that call, industrial end users have defined specific challenges that are to be solved by introducing a robotics solution. The challenges come from the areas of Manufacturing, Energy, Construction, Agriculture, Food Processing, Retail, Healthcare and Emergency Response. Until December 2nd, European SMEs can now apply to solve one or more of these challenges by developing a robotics application and receive funding of up to 200.000 Euros.

SMEs can propose a project, so called experiment, on their own or form a small consortium, teaming up with R&D organizations or other companies that can supplement their activities. ESMERA asks for handing in proposals aiming to develop innovative robotic technologies. Such technologies may involve but are not limited to, fully/nearly autonomous robots or human-robot collaboration applications and should be able to be demonstrated in real-world scenarios.

ESMERA offers direct financial support to the solution-providing SMEs, through a cascade funding mechanism. On top, the core ESMERA partners will provide the beneficiaries with an environment for developing, evaluating, testing and demonstrating novel robotic technologies, alongside with non-technical mentoring and support.

The solution design and evaluation will be carried out in two competitive phases. In phase I, the best experiments need to proof their concept. Phase II makes winners advance in Industrial Leadership and Business Support. The ESMERA core partners will help the winners on their path from idea to a final product ready to go to market. Phase I offers funding of up to 75.000 Euros, Phase II another 125.000 Euros per experiment.


About ESMERA
Within the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, ESMERA aims to boost robotics innovation by European Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). In January 2018, the European Commission launched the ESMERA project to unlock the innovation potential of robotics SMEs. ESMERA promotes applied robotics technology developed for industrial challenges set by key European companies. Thereby the SMEs get a chance to implement, apply and prove new technologies that address real-life problems and thus already have a market.

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