The INCOBOTICS; Ready for Industry 5.0 project (2019-2021) unites four EU partners from France, Italy, Greece and Spain in the development of innovative didactic materials in cobotics. The integration of cobots (collaborative robots) into the industrial and business sectors of the EU which will work side by side with their human counterparts in workspaces is predicted to grow from 2020. Future electronics and robotics graduates will be required to work alongside AI data technicians to programme, monitor and analyse the data fed into and coming from cobots and their integrated artificial vision (AV) systems. Skilled programming and monitoring will see cobots safely perform an ever wider range of (interactive) functions in the world of work. The INCOBOTICS project will create an INCOBOTICS Module with a general visual introduction to Industry 5.0 for all students, presenting current or planned examples from companies in each partner region. It will then cover the main characteristics and functions of cobots and develop structured units of learning in understanding and programming cobots and AV systems. The Project will develop a Best Practice Guide for teachers and trainers and offer "challenges" for students around which to develop competence in cobotics. The Guide will support user staff in the understanding of Challenge Based Learning and how to adapt or develop challenges for students in their cobotics and other courses. The INCOBOTICS Module and Best Practice Guide will be tested by pilot groups in Spain, France and Italy in 2020-2021, refined and freely available in Sept 2021 for downloading from the project website. The final products will be reviewed and validated by major cobot distributors and industrial representatives from partner countries. Politeknika Txorierri (ES), ADAMICS (FR), APRO (IT) and IDEC (EL) aim to provide higher education providers with the most innovative, quality and ready to use didactical materials in cobotics which will see student graduates in electronics and robotics better prepared for the emerging 5.0 scenario. The INCOBOTICS Module comes with integrated ECT accreditation guidelines. All INCOBOTICS outputs will be produced under the Creative Commons License. Project partners actively encourage higher educational organisations and other training entities to use the INCOBOTICS: Ready for Industry 5.0 Module and Guide.
The INCOBOTICS project aimed to improve the chances of employment of job seekers by improving demanded skills by industry: the skills to manage the performance of a wide variety of COBOTS and AV systems. We have provided HE (HE and high level VET centres) robotics staff with attractive, quality, ready to use didactical materials in the innovative field of cobotics so that they can help electronics and technical engineering students (future workers in Industry) for skilled employment in Industry 5.0. The INCOBOTICS Module contents cover setting up, programming and monitoring collaborative robots and AV systems for Industrial functions. The Guide supports user teachers in the Challenge Based Methodology so that they can adapt or develop challenges for students and in the ECT and ECVET accreditation to foster mainstreaming and certifying learning. Now there is a growing pool of qualified high-level technicians with the skills needed by the local/ regional (now global) market,
We applied for the INCOBOTICS project to meet the rapidly evolving needs and shifts in Industry. Consulting firm Accenture released an outlook in 2018 from a survey they conducted with 512 manufacturing executives from all over the globe revealing that 85% of them envisioned a collaborative production process between humans and robots in their plants by 2020. Industry 4.0 is presently seeing a massive digitalization of mechanical processes and creating smart factories. Industry 5.0 represents the personalization of Industry which will see direct interactive collaboration between humans and robots (currently bulky and separated from workers in caged areas), allowing for increased productivity as they can be programmed to perform detailed, routine, repetitive, difficult or dangerous tasks (such as complex sorting, inspection, inventory, repair etc.). Cognitive computing united with skilled robotics programming, artificial visioning systems (AV) and monitoring allows employees to safely carry out value added tasks in closer proximity with these flexible cobots. Integrating artificial vision via sensory cameras into COBOT systems makes them programmably intelligent, responsive and discriminatory towards the objects /persons around them, ensuring safety and allowing them to be more versatile in their movements and actions. The project addresses this need for Industry to employ skilled engineers and technicians with the competences to manage the performance of a wide variety of COBOTS and AV systems that are already appearing in the industrial work space.
The INCOBOTICS; Ready for Industry 5.0 project (2019-2021) unites four EU partners from France, Italy, Greece and Spain in the development of innovative didactic materials in cobotics. The integration of cobots (collaborative robots) into the industrial and business sectors of the EU which will work side by side with their human counterparts in workspaces is predicted to grow from 2020. Future electronics and robotics graduates will be required to work alongside AI data technicians to programme, monitor and analyse the data fed into and coming from cobots and their integrated artificial vision (AV) systems. Skilled programming and monitoring will see cobots safely perform an ever wider range of (interactive) functions in the world of work. The INCOBOTICS project will create an INCOBOTICS Module with a general visual introduction to Industry 5.0 for all students, presenting current or planned examples from companies in each partner region. It will then cover the main characteristics and functions of cobots and develop structured units of learning in understanding and programming cobots and AV systems. The Project will develop a Best Practice Guide for teachers and trainers and offer "challenges" for students around which to develop competence in cobotics. The Guide will support user staff in the understanding of Challenge Based Learning and how to adapt or develop challenges for students in their cobotics and other courses. The INCOBOTICS Module and Best Practice Guide will be tested by pilot groups in Spain, France and Italy in 2020-2021, refined and freely available in Sept 2021 for downloading from the project website. The final products will be reviewed and validated by major cobot distributors and industrial representatives from partner countries. Politeknika Txorierri (ES), ADAMICS (FR), APRO (IT) and IDEC (EL) aim to provide higher education providers with the most innovative, quality and ready to use didactical materials in cobotics which will see student graduates in electronics and robotics better prepared for the emerging 5.0 scenario. The INCOBOTICS Module comes with integrated ECT accreditation guidelines. All INCOBOTICS outputs will be produced under the Creative Commons License. Project partners actively encourage higher educational organisations and other training entities to use the INCOBOTICS: Ready for Industry 5.0 Module and Guide.