This third collaborative action involving Tekniker and Tabakalera will specifically address interactions between people and robots related to body-supporting machines such as exoskeletons to inspire user confidence.

The project forms part of the Creative Impact Research Centre programme (CIRCE) in which Tabakalera is now involved subsequently to having been chosen by the German government as a research lab investigating support policies for the cultural and creative industries.

Thanks to this programme, Tabakalera will carry out four projects throughout 2023 that will propose a collaborative methodology between artists and non-cultural organisations based on artistic practices. In addition to Tekniker, other initiatives developed together with the Basque Culinary Center Innovation, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) have been selected.

The projects were presented during an event held at Tabakalera. There, Luis Uriarte, general manager of Tekniker, explained that the third collaborative action between Tekniker and Tabakalera will explore issues related to communication and the quasi symbiotic, close relationship established between a person and the mobility provided by an exoskeleton. 

Exoskeletons deliver the support and assistance that a person needs to move and enhance their movements. The ultimate goal of this project developed in collaboration with the artist Amaia Vicente, proposes a multi-sensorial interface that will make it possible to improve interactions between robots and the people using them.

More generally speaking, it is a goal that Tekniker has already worked on in the areas of collaborative robotics and artificial intelligence in which the human being has always been placed in the centre of the development process.