Project News

RobétArmé Project: Our IRR robot tested in the Alps!

Dec 5, 2025 by Admin Editor

After exactly 42 months of carefully creating the Inspection Reconnaissance manipulator (IRR), the project partners gathered in the Alps to test it in real working conditions. The IRR is a complex system which consists of an autonomous rover and a laser welding robot/manipulator mounted on a trailer.

Our DS4 team, along with our partners from Bouygues Construction and the robot developers, watched intensely against the cold wind as the IRR rover was launched. Using its specially designed grippy tires, it rolled into the muddy tunnel. The rover confidently moved forward into the tunnel, scanning the environment with its camera and detecting defective rebars. The rebars are an essential framework to allow the spraying of shotcrete, ultimately allowing the building and repairing of crucial tunnel infrastructure.

We and the current end-users from Bouygues Construction, watched on amazed as an image of the rebars and surrounding environment appeared on the laptop. The 3D image highlighted the defects in the rebars. The rover then picked up the IRR manipulator (see pictures below) and towed it to the exact right spot. Sparks flew as the software instructed the manipulator to weld (fix) the defective metal rebars.

The end-users walked forwards tentatively towards the robot, minding their step. They examined the rebar carefully, tilting their head to see all angles. Then they looked back at us with a smile and nodding faces.

Our IRR robot, at its first ever real working environment testing, had performed an excellent repair.

As we interviewed the end-users afterwards, we enjoyed gathering valuable information for our evaluation analysis of this complex system. Next week we are eagerly waiting the testing of the Shotcrete and Finishing mobile manipulator (SFR); this is further addressing the unhealthy harmful conditions of the shotcreting process in harsh environment.

We would like to thank Bouygues Construction for their professionalism during the preparation and running of the tests. In addition to handling complex logistics and safety issues, they also took into consideration the project gender equality plan ensuring female partners felt comfortable during this thrilling experience.

To further immerse you into our human-robot collaborative work in the Alpine construction setting, we are providing the images below.

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary Digital Systems 4.0!

Oct 30, 2025 by Admin Editor

5 years ago in the beautiful city of Plovdiv a new company was born.

The founders had a dream and they had the drive. They knew how to build an outstanding team and lead them on challenging journeys. Even more importantly, they knew how to collaborate and become a trusted partner.

With a few completed projects under our belt and a few more ongoing right now, we have plenty of ideas for the future.

Thanks to all our friends and collaborators for the support over the last five years! Наздраве!

Cheers to the next 5 years!

Final Project Review, Goodbye!, Thank you!

Goodbye MobiSpacers!

Oct 17, 2025 by Admin Editor

For those of you who followed our MobiSpaces journey in the past 3 years, we would like to share with you that our project work has now been completed. The final review on 16 October 2025 in Genoa presented us with an opportunity to highlight all our project achievements which could benefit thousands of citizens as well as researchers and organisations in big numbers.

Thank you project partners for the collaborative work with our DS4 team. And thank you Matteo Falsetta for your vision, leadership and support. Throughout the project you were encouraging us to ‘keep pushing’; at the end of the project your message to us was no different:

‘And remember … KEEP PUSHING … always!!!’

Promise Matteo, we will. And we know that you will too.

We also know how to celebrate our achievements as the photo from the recent Impact event in Rome shows below 🙂

Until we meet again MobiSpacers!

Project Impact

MobiSpaces Impact Event: Advancing European Mobility Data Innovation – Rome – 23 June 2025

Jul 1, 2025 by Admin Editor

Last week the DS4 team had the pleasure to attend the MobiSpaces Impact Event: Advancing European Mobility Data Innovation held in the beautiful building Spazio Europa in Rome.

It was a wonderful opportunity to take part in this final event which presented and demonstrated the innovations developed during the lifetime of the project; their results empowered 5 real life scenarios including smart cities, transportation systems and maritime operations.

Technical and use cases partners engaged in fruitful discussions with other leaders and researchers in the field of data-driven innovations including AI, data spaces and sustainable transport.

The photos below show Petia in action early in the morning getting ready to meet and greet the participants at the registration desk.

Photos also show Zhilber networking with the other fellow participants; that included smiling in front of the cameras of course 🙂

To read further details about the event and watch the recordings of the presentations follow this MobiSpaces project website link

Meetings, progress

ENACT Project Plenary Meeting – Valencia – 17-18 June 2025

Jun 20, 2025 by Admin Editor

This week, the ENACT project reached an important milestone as partners gathered in sunny Valencia for the mid-term plenary meeting. With the first phase of the project wrapping up at the end of June, this was a key moment to showcase progress—and it didn’t disappoint.

The technical partners presented the first working versions of their components and it was inspiring to see how far we’ve come in such a short time and how well the different parts are beginning to integrate.

At DS4, we’re proud to be contributing to the ENACT project by developing a Security Risk Modeller (SRM)—an automated tool designed to assess deployment configurations for security threats. SRM identifies risks and recommends ISO 27001-aligned controls to ensure that deployment decisions made by the ENACT orchestrator are secure and standards-compliant.

A huge shout-out to Nadia for presenting the first version of the SRM and delivering an impressive live demo of its capabilities! The session sparked valuable discussions with our partners and demonstrated how SRM is shaping up to be a key component of the project.

None of this would have been possible without the tireless work of our brilliant technical team working behind the scenes. Your hard work made this milestone possible—thank you!

Onwards and upwards —ENACT is well on its way!

Meetings, progress

MobiSpaces Project Plenary Meeting – Madrid – 27-28 May 2025

May 30, 2025 by Admin Editor

Time flies when you’re having fun, and we couldn’t believe how quickly we got into the final months of the MobiSpaces project.

The project partners were delighted to get together again for a plenary meeting; this time they joined in at the ATOS premises in Madrid.

Every partner updated the consortium on their achievements to date; this was followed by discussing the open issues and outstanding tasks in the few remaining project months.

The DS4 work on the Security Risk Modeller was presented by Zhilber with the active participation of Nadia on-line.

Special mention also to our excellent technical team who work hard in the background on integration activities.

Thank you DS4 team and thank you project partners for our collaborative work 🙂

exhibition, Feedback

RoBétArmé Project – And the Winner is …

May 21, 2025 by Admin Editor

In our recent blog post about Hannover Messe we informed about receiving valuable feedback from people working in the constructions, robotics and digital transformation industries who attended our RoBétArmé project booth.
As promised, the prize winner has been drawn and they received their gift card.
Congratulations!
As for us, we were glad to receive constructive comments verbally and in writing.

As such, our project is a big winner as well 🙂

Impact, Save the Date!

MobiSpaces Project – Information about Impact Event – Advancing European Mobility Data Innovation – 23 June 2025 – Rome

May 15, 2025 by Admin Editor

After three years of research and innovation, the DS4 team is joining in with all our partners to showcase our main achievements on the MobiSpaces project.

MobiSpaces is an EU-funded initiative developing a mobility-aware, optimised data governance platform. It focuses on extracting actionable insights from mobile sensor and IoT data in a decentralised manner, enhancing intelligent transportation services while ensuring privacy and compliance.

Click on this link to find further details about the event and how you can register to attend.

exhibition

RoBétArmé Project – Hannover Messe – Spring 2025

Apr 4, 2025 by Admin Editor

Our RoBétArmé project just took part in the world’s leading industrial trade fair Hannover Messe.

Many project partners attended our stand during the fair week in order to showcase how RoBétArmé aims to achieve a human-robot collaborative construction system for shotcrete digitization and automation though advanced perception, cognition, mobility and additive manufacturing skills.

Our DS4 team participated with the aim to obtain valuable feedback from external stakeholders who are experts in the fields of construction, robotics and digital transformation. Their insights will be included in our project analysis in order to drive the future developments of the system until the end of the project and beyond.

Thank you to those participants who provided their feedback by completing our questionnaire. As promised we shall announce the winner of our prize early next month.

Meetings, progress

ENACT Project Plenary Meeting – Athens – 18-19 February 2025

Feb 20, 2025 by Admin Editor

It is good news that Nadia likes Athens because she had to board the plane to Athens once again and attend the plenary meeting for ENACT project.

Our plenary hosts from FDI made everyone welcome with some small gestures like the lovely personal tags as shown below:

Nadia presented the latest work of the DS4 team on our Security Risk Assessment tool. The demo showed how the tool creates an automatic system model, displays the uploaded model in a dashboard and auto-validates the model. Nadia also led the Data Management Plan workshop covering topics related to FAIR Data Principles, Ethical and Legal Considerations as well as Data Security.

Thank you Nadia 😊 In addition to participating in the productive plenary days, we hope you managed to enjoy a little bit of beautiful Athens before you had to board the plane again.