MENTOR · ARISE programme
Operators’ know-how, turned into robot skills
MENTOR captures how an experienced operator dismantles a product and turns it into a skill a robot can reuse, once a person has approved it.
euroDAO develops MENTOR with SUEZ within the ARISE programme. The work feeds one capability of our dismantling operator: learning new tasks from the people on the line.
Method
From a demonstration to a shared task
Why
Tasks change faster than robots can be reprogrammed
- Dismantling lines handle many products, and the mix keeps changing. Each new task has meant a new programming job before a robot could help.
- The know-how sits with experienced operators. They know where to hold, what to release first and what to leave alone.
- MENTOR lets those operators teach the robot directly, and keeps them in command of what it is allowed to do.
First validation
Memory modules on computer motherboards
The method was first validated with SUEZ on end-of-life computers: removing memory modules from motherboards. It is a small, precise task that varies from one board to the next, which makes it a fair test of learning from demonstration.
The project at a glance
- Project
- MENTOR
- Programme
- ARISE
- Developed by
- euroDAO
- Industrial partner
- SUEZ
- Field
- WEEE dismantling, end-of-life computers
- First task
- Removing memory modules from computer motherboards
Where it goes
Now a capability of the dismantling operator
What MENTOR built is part of the AI employee euroDAO builds for industry: it learns new tasks from your operators and executes them only after a person has approved them.
Funding
Developed by euroDAO SAS within the MENTOR experiment of the ARISE project.
Co-funded under Horizon Europe Programme of the European Union under Grant Agreement no. 101135784.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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