DEBBACHE-LAGIOS EE

Their core work

Operating as Gizelis Robotics, this Greek SME specializes in industrial robotics for manufacturing environments, with a strong focus on human-robot collaboration and safe robotic workplaces. They develop and integrate robotic solutions — including collaborative robots, exoskeletons, and mobile robots — designed to work alongside human operators in complex production settings. Their work spans surface finishing automation, adaptive workplace interfaces, predictive maintenance, and AI-enhanced robotic systems for factory floors.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

The company's earlier projects (2015-2016) focused on foundational industrial robotics — automating complex surface finishing and building adaptive workplace interfaces. By 2017-2018, their work shifted toward intelligent, AI-enhanced robotics: SHERLOCK introduced AI-enabled cognition, exoskeletons, augmented reality training, and advanced safety frameworks for collaborative robots. This progression shows a clear move from automating manual tasks to building smart, human-aware robotic systems.

Gizelis Robotics is moving toward intelligent, sensor-rich robotic systems that use AI and extended reality to make human-robot collaboration safer and more intuitive — a direction well-aligned with Industry 5.0 priorities.

How they like to work

Gizelis Robotics always participates as a partner, never leading consortia — a pattern consistent with a specialized SME contributing robotics expertise to larger research efforts. With 64 unique partners across 14 countries from just 5 projects, they join large, diverse consortia and rarely repeat partners, indicating broad European networking rather than a tight cluster of repeat collaborators. This makes them an accessible and experienced consortium partner comfortable working in multilateral EU project structures.

Extensive network of 64 partners spread across 14 European countries, built through participation in medium-to-large consortia. Their geographic reach well exceeds what their size would suggest, making them a well-connected robotics SME within EU manufacturing research.

What sets them apart

As a Greek robotics SME, Gizelis Robotics occupies a relatively rare niche — there are few private robotics companies from Greece with this depth of EU project experience in human-robot collaboration. Their consistent focus on the human side of industrial robotics (safety, adaptive interfaces, VR training, exoskeletons) differentiates them from pure automation companies. For consortium builders, they bring hands-on robotics integration capability paired with proven experience in five manufacturing-focused H2020 projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SHERLOCK
  Their most technically ambitious project, combining AI cognition, exoskeletons, mobile robots, AR/VR training, and safety — representing the convergence of all their expertise areas.
• SYMPLEXITY
  Their first H2020 project, focused on symbiotic human-robot solutions for complex surface finishing — establishing their core identity in human-robot collaboration for manufacturing.
• PROGRAMS
  Expanded their scope beyond robotics into predictive maintenance and reliability engineering, signaling diversification into data-driven manufacturing intelligence.