CO-ROBOTICS SRL

Their core work

CO-ROBOTICS SRL is an Italian technology SME specialising in social robotics for care environments, with a focus on building robots that can navigate domestic spaces, hold conversations, and support independent living for older adults. Their technical work spans socially-aware navigation, dialogue management, and distributed cognitive robotics — the combination of skills needed to make a robot genuinely useful in a home rather than a lab. In PHArA-ON, they contributed to large-scale pilots integrating AI, cloud platforms, and smart wearables for healthy ageing. In LIFEBOTS Exchange, they participated in an international staff exchange network advancing the science of bringing social robots into real care contexts.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects began in 2019, so the keyword split reflects thematic differences between the two projects rather than a multi-year trajectory. LIFEBOTS Exchange concentrates on the robotics layer — navigation, cognition, dialogue, and the challenge of integrating robots into domestic life. PHArA-ON shifts the lens outward to the digital ecosystem: open calls, pilots at scale, smart wearables, data platforms, standards, and marketplace models. The pattern suggests CO-ROBOTICS moved from pure robotics engineering into broader digital health system integration, though both threads are active simultaneously rather than sequentially.

CO-ROBOTICS appears to be expanding from core robot technology into the wider digital health ecosystem — platforms, marketplaces, and pilot-scale deployments — which positions them for future projects at the intersection of robotics, IoT, and care services.

How they like to work

CO-ROBOTICS has never led an H2020 project; they join as a specialist participant and contribute technical expertise rather than administrative coordination. Their two projects placed them inside large consortia — PHArA-ON in particular is a major Innovation Action with pilots across multiple EU countries. With 72 unique partners across 19 countries from just two projects, they are clearly comfortable operating as one node in a complex, multi-partner network rather than as the hub.

CO-ROBOTICS has reached 72 unique consortium partners across 19 countries from only two projects, reflecting the large consortium sizes typical of IA and MSCA-RISE schemes. Their network is broadly European with no evident concentration in a single country or region.

What sets them apart

CO-ROBOTICS is a rare Italian SME operating at the intersection of cognitive robotics and care-sector deployment — a combination that few small companies can credibly offer. Their dual presence in both a research exchange network (LIFEBOTS, MSCA-RISE) and a large-scale innovation pilot (PHArA-ON, IA) suggests both technical depth and the capacity to contribute to real-world validation. For a consortium building a project around assistive technology or active ageing, they bring robotics expertise that most digital health partners lack.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PHArA-ON
  Their largest project by far (EUR 209,367), a multi-country Innovation Action for healthy and active ageing that spans AI platforms, smart wearables, open calls, and real-world pilots — the clearest evidence of their applied digital health capability.
• LIFEBOTS Exchange
  An MSCA-RISE international staff exchange network focused specifically on social robots in care, demonstrating engagement with the European robotics research community even though the funding received was minimal (EUR 4,600).