About AI-MATTERS
AI-MATTERS is the Testing and Experimentation Facility to validate new AI technologies in a manufacturing context. With a partner network all over Europe, AI-MATTERS is ready to validate your latest technology solution in AI and robotics in our facilities using real-world manufacturing data, or help you apply new technology to address your manufacturing needs – with potential financial aid.
AI-MATTERS is co-funded by the European Commission and sources at national/regional level.
Meet the Greek: AI Innovation for Industry
In this last edition of our ’Meet the Nodes’ series, we turn to Greece, where the AI-MATTERS satellite introduces pioneering technologies in manufacturing, by providing specialized, innovative services, products, and technology transfer to businesses, from SMEs to large corporations.
The Greek satellite aims to provide services that enhance the uptake of AI-based solutions in a) factory optimization, b) human robot interaction, c) circular economy, while exploiting the potential of emerging & enabling technologies such as Machine Learning and Generative AI. Consortium Partner Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation (LMS) focusses on interdisciplinary research on cutting-edge scientific & technological fields in manufacturing. It has proven expertise, competences, and experience in AI solutions for:
- Manufacturing processes modelling & energy efficiency
- Manufacturing systems
- Robots, Automation and VR in manufacturing
Service in the spotlight: Accurate prediction and reconstruction of complex robotic systems
How can companies test complex robotic systems without costly real-world trials? AI-MATTERS is tackling this challenge through advanced digital twin technology and real-time simulation.
By creating high-fidelity virtual replicas of physical systems, engineers can simulate, monitor, and optimise operations before deployment. This approach significantly reduces development time, lowers costs, and enables safer experimentation with complex scenarios.
Through initiatives like the PRISM platform, developed by Consortium Partner CEA, AI-MATTERS demonstrates how AI-powered digital twins can transform robotics by enabling faster iteration, improved testing, and data-driven decision-making in real-world environments.
BUMET explores bin-picking with AI within AI-MATTERS: an honest insight into what is already possible
Can AI help automate one of the most challenging steps in manufacturing—handling randomly stacked parts? AI-MATTERS explored this with BUMET in a real-world bin picking use case.
Together with Affix Engineering, BUMET investigated how AI-powered vision systems and robotics can automatically detect and pick sheet metal components from a pallet. While the feasibility study showed strong potential, it also highlighted current limitations in accuracy and reliability for complex, interlocking parts—offering valuable, realistic insights for industry adoption.
By enabling companies to experiment in a controlled environment, AI-MATTERS helps manufacturers understand both the opportunities and boundaries of AI-driven automation before making major investments.
RULEX and AI-MATTERS: validation and benchmarking for more transparent and reliable artificial intelligence
How can manufacturers trust AI-driven decisions in critical production processes? AI-MATTERS addresses this challenge through advanced validation and benchmarking methods.
In collaboration with Rulex, AI-MATTERS supported the assessment of AI algorithms used for decision intelligence and industrial planning. By applying formal verification techniques, the project ensured that automated decisions are consistent, reliable, and transparent, key requirements for real-world deployment.
In parallel, benchmarking analyses compared proprietary AI solutions with established methods, evaluating performance based on solution quality, speed, and scalability. This provided a clear, data-driven understanding of strengths and improvement areas, helping companies make informed decisions about AI adoption.
By combining validation with benchmarking, AI-MATTERS enables manufacturers to build trustworthy, high-performance AI systems, reducing risks and accelerating industrial innovation.
From Digital Twin to Shopfloor Reality: RoboDK Explores the Power of AI-Driven Robotic Inspection
At AI-MATTERS, we are working toward a future in which artificial intelligence and digitalization create real value How can manufacturers speed up inspection processes while maintaining high precision? AI-MATTERS demonstrates how AI-driven robotic inspection can bridge the gap between simulation and real-world deployment.
In collaboration with ARENA2036, RoboDK explored how digital twins and offline robot programming can be used to design and validate inspection workflows. By testing these solutions in a real industrial environment, they successfully demonstrated reliable transfer from simulation to shopfloor operations.
The results show significant reductions in programming and commissioning time, while maintaining high inspection accuracy and flexibility across different use cases. This proves that AI-enabled simulation tools are not only efficient, but ready for industrial-scale application.
By enabling validation in real manufacturing settings, AI-MATTERS helps companies reduce risks and accelerate the adoption of AI-driven robotics in production environments.
AI-MATTERS service: Intelligent Vibratory Feeder Optimisation with AI
Struggling with unstructured parts in your production process? AI-MATTERS shows how AI can turn complexity into streamlined automation.
In collaboration with the Danish Technological Institute, this use case demonstrates how AI-optimised vibratory feeders combined with computer vision can transform randomly oriented components into perfectly organised, automation-ready flows for robotic cells.
By leveraging virtual simulation environments, AI models can be quickly trained and adapted to different product types, enabling fast changeovers, reducing downtime, and eliminating manual sorting.
The result: more flexible, scalable production processes with consistent feeding performance, even for complex parts, helping manufacturers move closer to fully autonomous operations.
How AI-MATTERS works
AI-MATTERS helps technology providers and manufacturing companies collaborate on real-world experiments with AI and robotics. By offering access to test facilities, data, and expert support, it enables tech developers to validate and mature their solutions in realistic production settings, while allowing manufacturers to explore the potential of AI for their specific challenges without upfront investment. AI-MATTERS focuses on startups, scale-ups, and SMEs—though larger companies can also join—and aims to boost the resilience and flexibility of the European manufacturing sector by accelerating the deployment of intelligent, autonomous systems. If you would like to know how AI-MATTERS works and want to know what’s in it for you, head to our ‘how it works’ page, where you can get detailed information on how you can become part of the AI-MATTERS ecosystem.
Get in touch!
Are you interested in one of our services? Do you want to know more on how AI-MATTERS works and what we can do for you? Get in touch with us!
Upcoming events
- April 20-24: Hannover Messe
- April 23: Manufacturing Technology Conference
- May 7: ROBOTBRAG 2026
- May 20: Women of Tech Conference 2026
- June 4: EU International Drone Show 2026
