Hybrid ultra-precision manufacturing process based on positional assembly and self-assembly for complex micro-products In the HYDROMEL project, Datacon and 23 European companies and academic partners aim at developing a new versatile 3D-automated production for complex micro-devices. The groundbreaking combination of ultra-precision robots improved with self-assembly technology will be a part of the massive production of high-added-value strategic and emerging micro-products.
The combination of robotic positional assembly – where objects are mechanically manipulated one by one – and self-assembly – where objects arrange themselves into ordered structures – has never been achieved at the industrial scale. Relying on the latest scientific developments in robotics and self-assembly, HYDROMEL’s partners will make a hybrid/self-assembly technology available at an industrial scale. This will be radically new and will push the field of high-added-value micro-products manufacturing.
The following strategic fields will be addressed:
Mechanics
Electronics
Biological engineering
Microfluidics
Information technology
HYDROMEL is supported by the European Commission under the 6th European Framework Programme.
Start of project: October 2006
End of project: September 2010