Grants as Catalysts for Innovation
For many OEMs and machine builders, innovation is essential to remaining competitive. Examples include digitization, AI, robotization, autonomous systems, predictive maintenance, the energy transition, and new product concepts. At the same time, these developments require investments, technical decisions, and the management of development risks.
Grants can help lower that barrier. They provide the opportunity to research new technologies, develop prototypes, and bring innovations to market more quickly.
This creates more opportunities for knowledge development, product development, and smart automation solutions.
RIWO helps OEMs and machine builders turn innovative ideas into concrete development projects. Drawing on our experience in industrial automation, software development, robotics, machine control, and system integration, we work with you to assess technical feasibility, determine the right approach, and bring your project to fruition.
Innovating Together with Companies and Research Institutions
Many grant programs encourage collaboration between companies and academic institutions. That is why we regularly collaborate with organizations such as Saxion, the University of Twente, and other research organizations.
By combining practical experience, engineering expertise, and scientific knowledge, we create solutions that can be directly applied in machines, production lines, and industrial systems.
Benefits
This partnership offers benefits for OEMs and machine builders:
- Access to specialized knowledge and research facilities;
- Acceleration of technological developments;
- Reduction of development risks;
- Faster validation of new technologies;
- Building valuable knowledge and intellectual property.
RIWO as an Innovation Partner
We do not view grants as an end in themselves, but as a means to enable innovation. We are happy to collaborate on:
- Promising innovation projects within your organization;
- The technical implementation of research and development projects;
- Collaboration with research institutions and technology partners;
- Development of prototypes, pilots, and demonstrators;
- Scaling up to a robust industrial solution.
Autonomous Agricultural Navigation
Developing control software to enable agricultural ground robots to operate fully autonomously.
These must be able to navigate indoors and outdoors, based on (RTK)GNSS, vision, odometry, suitable for open standards and to be used in a universal simulation environment (based on URDF).
The Next Fruit 4.0
Conducting case studies for sensing, management information, robotization, preconditions, implementation, economic validation & innovation adoption for tomorrow's fruit growing using multifunctional robots. The project focuses on sensor innovations, orchard design and the development of prototype end-effectors for picking pears and pruning fruit trees.
NxtGen High-tech Apple Picking Robot
To develop a robot suitable for automatic apple picking in European orchards (later worldwide) and also suitable for automatic pruning.
ROBoticBINpicking
The goal of this project is to get ROS2 and Artificial Intelligence for object recognition and pose estimation closer to industry by conducting applied research and a feasibility study by building a relevant demonstrator to showcase the technique.
Advanced detection and robotic sorting system for a circular economy
Developing an advanced, modular detection and robotic sorting system to quickly, flawlessly and autonomously sort all different metals and waste types from a (ferrous) waste stream.
Magnetic-Simulataneous-Localization-And-Mapping
An investigation into the extent to which a magnetic field can be used as an information provider to simplify the localization issue for AGVs. The main research question is:
How can we reprocess and incorporate MagSLAM technology into an AGV system?
MDIEU Sustainable employability
Professionalizing HR activities and processes, project organization, standardizing RIWO technology and vitality pilots and thus ensuring that our employees are sustainably employable, remain healthy and productive.
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