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Discovering unforeseen challenges and driving breakthroughs – this is the essence of the WASP Research Arena for Robotics (WARA Robotics). We are creating a tangible, industry-relevant environment tailor-made for revolutionary industrial automation research.

WARA Robotics was created to explore technologies in their relevant environments, which allows researchers to discover and explore unexpected challenges otherwise invisible.

WARA Robotics is designed to support research connected to common industrial tasks: kitting, assembly, and lab automation. Kitting is the process in which all material needed for assembling a product is collected and delivered to a workstation. This task requires refined navigation and manipulation skills such as pick and place, as well as perception and object detection capabilities. Assembly is the task performed when the pieces are put together. This additionally demands contact-rich manipulation where the contact dynamics reflecting the physical properties of the pieces exhibit a high degree of variation. Lab automation is the process of integration of new technologies to improve or produce new processes in medical, chemical and analysis labs, among others.

You can also watch this introductory video about the WARA:

Support for Research Activities

WARA Robotics goal is to support research in several areas, some of which are:

Reinforcement Learning

• Reduction of samples
• Sim-to-real transfer
• Multiple robot data generation

Automated Reasoning

• Task planning
• Resource scheduling
• Motion planning
• Multi-robot coordination

Perception

• Segmentation and scene understanding
• Object recognition and tracking
• Multi-modal perception

Human-Robot Interaction

• Multi-modal interaction
• Learning from demonstration and observation

Assembly with Dual-arm Robots

• Utilization of dual arms in assembly

WARA Robotics Community

As the community grows, we look forward to expanding this list. If the research you are conducting is not listed, please reach out to us anyway and we can discuss if it is possible to include.

We welcome all academic and industrial researchers and PhD students in Sweden to contact us if they have any questions. Be part of the WARA Robotics community!