Who we are
The MAGICIAN consortium brings together the diverse knowledge and expertise of 11 project partners from 7 countries. Coordinated by the University of Trento, the project assembles the collective strengths of universities, research institutions, business support organizations, digital solution developers, and industry including an industrial use case from the automotive industry.
Application Developers
University of Trento (UNITN) is active in a variety of research fields including civil, environmental and mechanical engineering. It ensures overall project coordination and contributes to all technical activities as well as the implementation of the open calls and communication and dissemination tasks.
The internationally renowned Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) is one of the largest Greek research centers and has ten research institutes, including the Institute of Computer Science.
FORTH leads project activities related to data acquisition and skills learning from workers for the development of the robotic modules.
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) is a major Italian research center focusing on robotics, nanomaterials, LifeTech, and Computational Sciences. In the MAGICIAN project, IIT brings in research expertise on Humanoid & Human Centered Mechatronics.
IIT leads the development of the robotic platform and interfaces and supports activities in all other technical project tasks.
Pipple consults its customers on data and AI and offers various associated services and solutions. As project partner, Pipple contributes with expertise on machine learning, optimization and data engineering.
In MAGICIAN, Pipple supports data definition and analysis, contributes to system integration and leads the development of the configuration tool optimizer.
Harms+Wende (HWH) is a German Welding Equipment Manufacturer offering individual solutions for resistance and friction welding in various segments.
HWH contributes to technical MAGICIAN activities including data acquisition, defining the motion controller strategy and setting up of the demonstrator at the pilot location. It leads activities related to closed-loop defect analysis of welding processes.
System Integrators
Altinay is a multidisciplinary engineering company specialized in robotic production technologies for factory automation and system integration.
Altinay is one of the two MAGICIAN’s pilot demonstration areas and leads the platform integration of the robotic modules.
Sustainability of Results
Tofaş is a a leading Turkish automotive manufacturer with product lines including car brands such as FIAT.
Tofaş supplies the car bodies and parts for the demonstrator set up at Altinay premises and also represents another pilot demonstration area for the MAGICIAN robotic solutions.
Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF) is FIAT’s center for research and innovation and brings research and industry expertise into the MAGICIAN project.
CRF leads activities related to use case definition and contributes to overall technical tasks. Given its industry background, CRF plays a major role in contributing to the economic sustainability and uptake of MAGICIAN results.
Stakeholder Engagement and Open Calls
Steinbeis Europa Zentrum (Steinbeis) is an innovation consultancy specialising in international markets and EU funding.
With contribution from all MAGICIAN partners, Steinbeis ensures transparent communication and dissemination of the project activities and results and leads activities supporting the uptake of MAGICIAN solutions including ecosystem mapping.
Zabala is an international consultancy specialized in R&D financing and innovation strategy, with more than 35 years of experience and specialized knowledge on cascade funding built over 17 projects.
In MAGICIAN, Zabala will coordinate the implementation of financial support to third parties, encompassing launch and dissemination of open calls, the selection process, and monitoring of funded projects.
User-centred Design
Lund University (LU) is a renowned research partner and contributes expertise in Design Sciences, more specifically Human-centred design.
Lund University leads MAGICIAN activities in the frame of use case definition and platform design. In this context, LU also covers the involvement of workers and other stakeholders and the evaluation of social and psychological impact.
MAGICIAN Equality
MAGICIAN activities are guided by a holistic and human-centred approach to human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, a sector where women are typically underrepresented. As part of this commitment, MAGICIAN partners will strive for an equal participation of men and women (e.g. workers, managers and union representatives) in project activities wherever possible, including feedback on the development of robotic solutions.
MAGICIAN solutions also have the potential to reduce gender and age imbalances as operations requiring significant physical effort are executed by the robot while workers can focus on tasks with low physical strain, for instance supervision of the robot.
By implementing a human-centred approach, MAGICIAN partners seek to contribute to a strengthening of mutual learning and skills development for workers in the manufacturing sector regardless of gender and age, and thereby promote an inclusive and sustainable industrial transition towards trusted human-robot collaboration.