Traceable Robotic Handling of

Sterile Medical Products

PROJECT

TraceBot – Traceable Robotic Handling of
Sterile Medical Products

Today manual procedures still dominate when it comes to creating and testing new healthcare products. This is because regulations require certainty in the execution of each process step and systematic checking to verify task completion, known as traceability. A particular challenge in this field is the handling of sterile medical products. Lab automation with dexterous and reasoning robots is the solution.

The EU funded TraceBot project aims at addressing healthcare-related processes, and more exactly the membrane-based sterility testing process. The objective of TraceBot is to bring verifiable actions to robot manipulation by reasoning over sensor-actor trails in a traceability framework based on digital-twin technology and extend current robot motion planners with the automatic execution of self-checking procedures that create a semantic trace of the actions performed. The goal is to create robotic systems able to understand what they perceive and do, to ensure that any manipulation action is verified, thus meeting the needs of the regulated environment.


The TraceBot project brings together six strong partners from five countries: Astech Projects Limited (England), Commissariat à l‘Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (France), Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain), Invite GmbH (Germany), Technische Universität Wien (Austria) and Universität Bremen (Germany) and is being guided by representatives of the pharmaceutical industry. Each partner contributes its own expertise by providing a solution working hand-in-hand with each other partner’s solution. This cooperation will permit the development of tactile grippers for handling medical products, the design of a set of manipulation skills to execute the regulatory checking actions for every assembly step, the generation of an intuitive programming method for a quick adaptation to novel products and tasks and, last but not least, the development of a reasoning framework to monitor and control the safe and failure-resistant operation of the robot system, in order to meet the need of safety-critical automation. The TraceBot project’s coordination, communication and dissemination is carried out by the health network BioLAGO (Germany).
Duration: January 2021 till March 2025.

Traceability framework based
on digital-twin technolgy

Tactile Grippers essential for
handling of sterile liquids

Intuitive programming method
adapts quickly to novel products

Sensors recognize and handle
transparent vials with liquids

CONSORTIUM

Six Robotic Experts from five Countries bundle
European Lab Automation Expertise

Coordinator

TraceBot receives funding from the European Union‘s H2020-EU.2.1.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP programme (grant agreement No 101017089), 2021-2025

News

Find here the latest news on TraceBot

Short Interview with author Irati Rasines (TECNALIA) about the new publication

Special issue in SLAS Technology – hand in completed manuscripts until January 15, 2024.

D-Bremen | The University of Bremen invites researchers to submit their scientific contributions to the AIC scientific journal

EVENTS

Conferences, Fairs & Meetings

25
Sep
2024

Location: Konstanz (Germany)


25.Sep-25.Sep 2024

26
Jun
2024

Location: Basel, Switzerland


26.Jun-27.Jun 2024

CH-Basel | The TraceBot funding project will have an information booth at booth number 108 at Future Labs Live trade fair in Basel on 26-27 June 2024

 

22
May
2024

Location: Basel, Switzerland


22.May-23.May 2024

CH-Basel | Bringing together key experts in the field of drug discovery screening, target identification, validation & neuroscience drug development - the foremost venue to explore cutting-edge advancements in smartlabs automation and mobile robotics.