TROIA Pilot Project – Tactile Robotics in the Workplace

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The model project“TROIA – Tactile Robotics in the Workplace”prepares companies from the Hanover region and throughout Lower Saxony to understand robotics and AI with the help of a structured “Robonatives Program” and through new, needs-based continuing education offerings, to utilize them for their own processes, and to receive appropriate training.

The Robonatives Initiative of the Robokind Foundation (2019–2022) has already laid the optimal groundwork for this: In addition to “Robotics Training Made in Lower Saxony,” a sustainable Robonatives network was established and robot factories were set up throughout Lower Saxony.

The project launched on July 1, 2022, and ran successfully through February 2025. 

The initiative aims to target small and medium-sized enterprises in particular through a cross-target-group approach. This includes both unskilled and trained workers as well as apprentices in the participating companies. 

1. Identify the training needs and required skills for employees of small and medium-sized enterprises in the fields of robotics and AI by

2. Pilot companies participate in the Robonatives program of the Robokind Foundation, and in the course of this

3. a new qualification format for skilled workers is developed and tested.

- On the one hand, this aims to enable trainees to identify automation potential (under supervision) within their own company and to act as ambassadors for the field of robotics (Roboscouts).

- On the other hand, skilled workers are to be prepared in a targeted and needs-based manner for the use of tactile robotics in their own companies, with an open mindset and equipped with the necessary skills. 



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