MAIN TOPICS COVERED

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Experiments are expected to cover the following topics: 
 

• TOPIC 1: AI at the Edge applications and edge-to-cloud continuum
  AI is pivotal across various industries, and manufacturing is no exception. In AI REDGIO, our primary focus is highlighting the transformative impact of AI in manufacturing when executed at the edge. Leveraging edge-to-cloud frameworks and cutting-edge infrastructures, along with AI models for local execution, brings numerous benefits, including low latency, minimal data transfer, and enhanced data sovereignty and privacy. Experiments to be selected should demonstrate the above-mentioned approach, with providing real-life use cases that call for AI execution at the edge, or using hybrid cloud-edge infrastructures, and building the necessary services and AI models to realise this target.
   

• TOPIC 2: Industry 5.0 and human-centric, resilient and sustainable manufacturing
  While Industry 4.0 emphasizes advancing industrial activity beyond technical and economic goals like productivity and efficiency, Industry 5.0 takes a step further by prioritizing additional crucial objectives for the sector. These include human well-being, sustainability, and resilience. Industry 5.0 represents the next stage of industrialization, marked by the reintroduction of human labor to factories, distributed production, intelligent supply chains, and hyper customization. The overarching goal is to consistently provide a personalized customer experience. Experiments to be selected should explore how Industry 5.0 and human-centred digitalization can contribute to the flexibility and adaptability of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) production processes, resulting in more resilient and sustainable systems. The goal is to explain on real use cases the relationship between digital technologies and production system features through progressively more human-centric stages of a digitalized manufacturing system.
   

• TOPIC 3: TERESA (Technology Regulatory Sandboxes) experiments
  In the envisioned Industry 5.0 workplace by AI REDGIO 5.0, humans and machines collaborate closely using cutting-edge Collaborative Intelligence. This creates an immersive, real-time human-machine co-working environment. Recognizing the importance of work in adult lives, it's essential to address the ethical, regulatory, and societal impacts of this collaboration. Conducting experiments is crucial to ensure both companies and workers benefit while putting workers and their rights at the center of the evolving workplace. The main goal of this topic proposals is to develop a TEchnology and REgulatory Sandbox (TERESA) experiment, exploiting a DF’s facilities and addressing Human-AI interactions and regulatory and ethical issues. The experiments to be selected under topic 3 must cover one or more of the Topics 1 and 2, following the “humans in the loop” train-explain-sustain paradigm. The TERESA experimentation should have a twofold objective: i) a technical validation of the Human-AI interaction through a DFs, following the test-before-invest paradigm, and ii) a regulatory and ethical validation, involving volunteers and at least a competent authority (such as regulators, supervisors, policy-makers, innovation agencies, Vanguard Initiative representatives, regional or local authorities, etc.)