Displacing intensive manual labour towards human focused collaborative robots.

KeyBotics is a European project, funded by the EIT Manufacturing and launched on january 1st, 2021. KeyBotics aims to develop a new generation of collaborative robots specialized in complex surface finishing operations such as deburring and polishing on different types of parts, especially for aeronautical applications. The project is coordinated by Aerospace Valley with technical partners such as ISYBOT, in charge of the conception and the manufacture of collaborative robots, and the CEA LIST in charge of developing the end effectors, the control and command systems of the robot. The prototype will then be validated during real use-cases at LISI AEROSPACE (french end-user) and voestalpine (austrian end-user) facilities, in partnership with AMA-Tech (austrian integrator). The industrial transfer will be organized towards ISYBOT, in charge of marketing the new collaborative robot at the project term.