Here is the history of CANOPIES progress

Date Description
10/06/2024

Paleblue presents a new release of the Canopies Simulator, version 4.0.

16/04/2024

Paleblue presents a new release of the Canopies Simulator, version 3.4

19/03/2024

Paleblue presents a new release of the Canopies Simulator, version 3.3

March 2024

CANOPIES Field experimentation for robotic pruning in Aprilia, Italy 
22-23/10/2023

Exhibition at Maker Faire event in Rome, Italy. During the 3-day exhibition several demos were performed, demonstrating the manipulation capabilities of the robot for grape harvesting, grape cluster recognition and quality estimation capabilities, mobile base motion capabilities and coordinated manoeuvring for box-exchange, as well as the virtual reality.

Moreover, several press releases appeared in the context of the Maker Faire Event in national News Agency  Adnkronos (IT)

https://www.adnkronos.com/economia/innovazione-gasparri-roma-3-agricoltori-e-macchine-possono-coesistere_2ViBhDE21nf1laKXjYQi4L

and National Press"Il sole 24 ore" (IT)

https://stream24.ilsole24ore.com/video/italia/gasparri-roma-tre-coesistenza-armoniosa-agricoltori-e-macchine/AFOJBbLB

28/09/2023

Expanding possibilities in precise manipulation: introducing the new TIAgo SEA Arm.

https://blog.pal-robotics.com/introducing-new-tiago-sea-arm/

11-15/09/2023

Field experimentation in Aprilia, Italy, with the  participation of UPC, UNIROMA1, UNIROMA3, UNICLAM, PAL Robotics and AGRIMESSINA.

During this field experimentation, a new version of the Canopies bi-manipulator robot was tested.

Moreover, new versions of algorithms of peduncles and grapes detection and localization, 3D human skeleton prediction, human intention prediction and grape mapping with quality grape estimation methods, were tested.

29/05/2023-02/06/2023 PAL Robotics launched the newly robot TIAgo Pro Edition, developed building on the CANOPIES project prototype, with SEA arms and latest generation premium software by using human-centric approach
19/05/2023

The European Comission recognizes PaleBlue Virtual Reality Platform, developed as a part of CANOPIES project and that has been named a significant EU innovation. 

https://pale.blue/2023/05/19/european-commission-recognizes-paleblue-robotics-platform/

17/05/2023

A new release of Canopies VR simulator - v3. This is a major release to better support for the different setups used by the partners.

03/2023 ERF 2023. Odense, Denmark. A live CANOPIES demo was performed at the booth from PAL Robotics and DTI. 
24/03/2023

A new release of the Canopies Simulator, version 2.5.

It is a minor release with two bug fixes: movement of motion bases, and spawn human orientation.

09/02/2023

A new version of the Canopies Simulator have been shared by Paleblue:

Version 2.4. It features support for static humans, and also an initial implementation of BEM mechanism.

13/02/2023

UPC, PAL and UNICLAM shared one week of field experimentation for Robotic pruning in Aprilia, Italy. 

Our teams from UPC, PAL and UNICLAM developed a field experimentation during one week to test robotic pruning of table grape in Aprilia, Italy, performed with Tiago robot by Pal Robotics.

03/01/2023

20/12/2022

Two new versions of the Canopies Simulator have been shared by Paleblue:

Version 2.2. This is a release containing a number of bug fixes, along with functionality for teleporting, gripper, and timestamping of camera images.

Version 2.3. It features multiplayer VR human functionality, with voice communication between humans and robots.

07/11/2022

A new release of the Canopies Simulator - v2.0 - have been developed by Paleblue. This is a major release that finally supports networking, meaning   having multiple robots and multiple humans in the same situation. 

7-9/10/2022

Maker Faire event, Rome, Italy. Organization of an exhibition area with two robots, demonstrating the manipulation capabilities of the robot for grape harvesting, human-robot interaction capabilities using voice commands and gestures, grape cluster recognition and quality estimation capabilities, mobile base motion capabilities as well as the virtual reality.

Moreover a press released was launched "Arrivederci Maker, ifl futuro e sostenibile" on the national newspaper "Il Messagero"

https://uniroma3.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/project-canopies/ET4BAc5Ezo9CtBbFwdrnhgQB7pLqwOTpomRLiO-VR_Imtw?e=dWCvGN)

09/2022

UPC published a press article about CANOPIES project: "Robots that help to do harvesting and pruning in table grape"

https://www.upc.edu/es/sala-de-prensa/noticias/desarrollan-robots-cooperativos-para-recolectar-uva-de-mesa

22-23/09/2022

1st Review Meeting of Canopies Project

September 2022

On September 22 and 23, the 1st Review Meeting of the Canopies project took place. A good part of our partners attended in person the meeting at UNIROMA3 University. 

05/09/2022

09/09/2022

Integration weeks and Field validation at Aprilia, Italy. UPC, UNIROMA1, UNIROMA3, UNICLAM, PaleBlue, PAL Robotics, KTH and AGRIMESSINA participated in the experiments. 

Moreover

01/09/2022

Press release: TIAgo++ starts to work in an Italian vineyard. 

https://blog.pal-robotics.com/tiago-work-in-italian-vineyards-for-project-canopies/

18/07/2022

During three days - 18 to 20 of July - the CANOPIES Teams are in the field of Aprilia, Italy for the first performance of the robot and checking and taking real data of the grape. UPC, UNIROMA1, PAL Robotics, UNIROMA3 and AGRIMESSINA participated. 

06/2022

ERF 2022. Rotterdam, Netherlands. Pal Robotics introduced the new Tiago ++ robot to ERF participants focusing on the challenges of Human-Robot interaction and Human-Robot Collaboration in crop farming.

Moreover several press releases were launched:

https://blog.pal-robotics.com/meet-us-at-the-erf-2022-europes-most-influential-robotics-event/

https://blog.pal-robotics.com/erf-2022-european-robotics-forum-highlights-2022/

25/05/2022

The new release of the CANOPIES Simulator v1.8. 

30/12/2021

Document: Guidelines for the integration of System Components (Deliverable 3.4). DTI

This report describes the composition of a Wiki page containing the guidelines for robot integration and to ensure the compability of software/hardware components with related documentation. 

14/09/2021 17/09/2021

Integration weeks and Field validation. Collecting Data in Corsira, Italy.

14/09/2021

Document: Simulated Farming Environment and Basic Robotics Components. (Deliverable 3.4). PaleBlue

PaleBlue established the first deliverable in the Canopies EU project, dedicated to creation of the simulated 3D environment that would later be used in training up autonomous robots. A virtual vineyard with the grapes and vines is created, and set up in different light conditions. A mobile robot base is implemented, along with a number of sensors such as LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). This builds the necessary foundation for prototyping and verification of robot interactions in a virtual 3D environment.

30/06/2021

Document: Specifications and KPIs for the two robot prototypes (D2.2). DTI

This deliverable describes all the specifications and KPIs that will be defined during the development of the robotic prototypes. Following the development of the robotic prototypes the deliverable will be periodically updated during the project.

30/04/2021

Document: Requirements, Specifications and Benchmarks  for validating the project outcomes (D2.1). Agrimessina

31/03/2021

Document: Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation Plan (2021-2024) for the CANOPIES project (D10.3). UPC and all partners.

01/03/2021

The website is on-line (D10.1). UPC and UNIROMA3

02/2021

Robots to revolutionize thousand-year-old agriculture tradition. DTI, DK.

https://www.dti.dk/specialists/robots-to-revolutionise-thousand-year-old-agriculture-tradition/43190

11/02/2021 12/02/2021

Kick-off meeting

01/01/2021

Official start of the project CANOPIES