EU Horizon 2020 MAIA Project Mid-term Meeting

On June 6, 2023, Dr. Yuqian Lu presented a research update at the mid-term meeting of the MAIA project, representing The University of Auckland.

He discussed the institution's vision of human-centric manufacturing and progress on understanding and optimising human well-being in manufacturing and human-robot collaboration. He also briefed on collaboration outcomes between the University of Padova and the Industrial AI Team.

About MAIA

MAIA is a Research and Innovation Staff Exchange initiative funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It comprises an international academy of 14 academic partners: 7 European universities and 7 Third Countries universities. The focus addresses active ageing industrial workforce problems and needs.

The University of Auckland team develops digital technologies to measure, monitor and optimise human fatigue during human-robot collaborative assembly — with the goal of changing how collaborative workstations are designed and how frontline worker jobs are arranged.