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Tech Hive Labs · Athens, Greece

Robotics and AI research, backed by public and private funders.

Tech Hive Labs is a non-profit research organisation. Since 2019 we have worked in 25 publicly funded projects with 280 partner organisations, and we coordinate 7 of them. Alongside the grants, 19 private clients have commissioned projects worth about €1.3 million.

The record

Our work in numbers

25
publicly funded projects since 2019
23 EU grants and 2 national projects.
23
EU grants
21 Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, 1 CERV, 1 Erasmus+.
7
coordinated by THL
Echoes of Memory, ARISE, SWAG, PALPABLE, PANTHEON, TUBERS, FleX-RAY.
€115.8M
EU funding to our consortia
EU contribution to the 21 Horizon projects. Their combined budget is €131.6 M.
€9.7M
EU funding to THL
Awarded to Tech Hive Labs across the 21 Horizon projects.
€1.3M
in private projects
Approximate value of the projects that private clients have commissioned from THL.
12
running today
Grants in their funded period on the day this page was built.
19
private clients
Clients that commission projects from THL directly, outside the grant programmes.
280
partner organisations
141 companies, 54 universities, 35 research organisations, 18 public bodies, 32 others.
37
countries
Where our consortium partners are based, in Europe and beyond.
31
publications
Papers, preprints and datasets by THL researchers since 2021.
2
patents granted
One European and one Greek patent. An international application is published.

Figures for Horizon projects come from CORDIS. Counted on 10 Nov 2026. The figures for private projects are approximate.

2019 to 2029

Every grant, on one timeline

Each bar is the funded period of one project. Gold bars are the projects we coordinate.

SocketSense
KYKLOS 4.0
SleekShip
FleX-RAY
SoftGrip
ODIN
Grinner
TUBERS
PARSEC
PANTHEON
PALPABLE
SoliDAIR
MANiBOT
SWAG
RAIDO
ECOSHIPYARD
ARISE
Theseus
ENKORE
Echoes of Memory
PlantForm
OPTIMI
SOFTGRASP
20192020202120222023202420252026202720282029
Coordinated by THLTHL as partnerToday

All projects, with budgets, roles and consortia

Consortia

280 partners in 37 countries

Universities, research institutes, hospitals, utilities, public authorities and companies we have signed grant agreements with.

Rana UtviklingNational Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary (NAV)PDM&FCCyberJABRana MunicipalityCentral Institute for Labour Protection (CIOP-PIB)F6SInternational Solid Waste Association (ISWA)Mo IndustriparkSiemens Digital Industries SoftwareTata Consultancy ServicesTU WienJožef Stefan InstituteEight BellsPlaixusCETMAThrace PolyfilmsFloorganiseVITOTerraformingFederation of Jewish Communities of Romania (FCER)Future IntelligenceEuropean DIGITAL SME AllianceMultimed EngineersTakedaSterimedHeidelberg UniversityUniversité Marie et Louis PasteurStowarzyszenie Euro LiderErionI2M UnternehmensentwicklungBelgian Federal PoliceVitensUniversity of TurinNetherlands PoliceSIMAVIPhilipsAthenian BreweryEpsilon MaltaTelekinesisVarex ImagingSubsea TechGeocycle HellasRISA SicherheitsanalysenPro MedicareSchwarz DigitalEuropean Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)Virtual Vehicle ResearchINESC TECFederal Public Service Finance (Belgium)Technical University of CreteRECYCOMTecnaliaUG SystemsLillyDemocritus University of ThraceM. DanchorMitsui Chemicals EuropeKanfitWEEE ForumDistrict Heating Company of Ptolemaida (DETIP)EUREGHA – European Regional and Local Health AuthoritiesLeiden UniversityTAPA EMEAJohanniter Österreich Ausbildung und ForschungGFTAzimut|BenettiUniversity of WarwickTrinity College DublinIndian Institute of Technology KharagpurAlgosystemsBoschMPAI StoreLTH-BaasBroseMetaMind InnovationsPostNLAirbus Defence and SpaceAtlantec Enterprise SolutionsKauttuan kouluCharité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinElvalHalcorBoehringer IngelheimQCELLPoste ItalianeIRIS Technology SolutionsPractinFISEVICastalia
ISEM InstituteRISE Research Institutes of SwedenHypertech Sustainability Research and Technology CenterFresenius Medical CareNovo NordiskEuropean Patients' ForumShipRealityMadrid Health Service (SERMAS)BaxterMedtronicUniversity of TwenteKEBE – Northern Greece CeramicsStandards NorwayUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)IUVOThrace MarbleUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)FujitsuMION TechnologiesNetcompanyScuola Superiore Sant'AnnaBioLynxQuantum Technology Supersensors (LussTech)University of CoimbraUBITECHGreenWEEE InternationalZákladná škola HumennéSINTEFDuPontCIE AutomotiveMinds & SparksThe Awareness MovementHalo X-ray TechnologiesHellenic DynamicsUK Home OfficeJEPCOTU DarmstadtAUMOVIOSidroco HoldingsTeagascElie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (INSHR-EW)Queen Mary University of LondonUniversity of BristolAutforce AutomationsEmbla Medical (Össur)DIAD GroupGrieg Green (Grieg Maritime Group)VestelUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di RomaCenter for Security Studies (KEMEA)German Aerospace Center (DLR)AyesaDevelop AthensJotneGreek Patients AssociationEYDAP – Athens Water Supply and Sewerage CompanyTSIMISAxon LogicLinköping UniversityUniversity of EssexJessa HospitalSouth Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAdvanticSysNuromediaEurecatDemconRoessingh Research and DevelopmentTU DresdenCOMOSamenwerkende Topklinische Ziekenhuizen (STZ)WEGEMTInstitute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)PredictByCross-border Research Association (CBRA)Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)Brabant WaterNordland County CouncilUniversity of HertfordshireUniversity of the AegeanHospital del Mar Research InstituteIndependent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO)Crisis Management State Academy (MIA Educational Complex, Armenia)Public Power Corporation (PPC)InetumInstitute of Biomedical Technology (INBIT)Universidad Francisco de VitoriaFraunhofer-GesellschaftAristotle University of Thessaloniki
ALSYMEXPfizerWorld Resources ForumEvides WaterbedrijfRegion of AtticaMasoutisKingston UniversityTVP SolarCities Network for Sustainable Development and Circular EconomyÉcole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC)UMC UtrechtBrunel University of LondonOSAI Automation SystemCIRTESGE HealthCareWarsaw Ghetto MuseumUniversity of StrathclydeVerlab InstituteDanaos ShippingPanopoulos Bros (Panchart)Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) CommunitybpostFraport GreeceKhalifa UniversityWest University of TimișoaraCity of MalmöQuassetImperial College LondonTelenavisKonnektable TechnologiesA.SPIRELund UniversityUniversity of BurgosCEAClean EnergyProboticaTU DelftHolocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of MacedoniaMaggioliELVANKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDay OneCHU Amiens-PicardieMinistry of Finance of the NetherlandsCIMNENCSR "Demokritos"Teesside UniversityFondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-MedicoJohnson & JohnsonUniversity of SheffieldMathemaISQHellenic PoliceMYSPHERAPoznan University of TechnologyM3 Systems BelgiumCIRCENational Technical University of Athens (NTUA)Medical University of LodzAgricultural Poultry Cooperative of Ioannina "Pindos"UDG AllianceAndalusian Health Service (SAS)Engineers for BusinessCIBOS InnovationUBITECH EnergyInstitut de Seguretat Pública de CatalunyaFIBRANAstanderLOGOS Ricerca e InnovazioneUniversity of LausanneINNOV-ACTSHurricane Modular CommerceTechnovative SolutionsKunnskapsparken HelgelandAdrestiaCORE Innovation CentreEMVISInteropticsTechnical University of MunichBendablDanish StandardsLYNQABBInnovEDRobotnikHellenic Mediterranean UniversityUniversity of HuddersfieldAmerican Bureau of Shipping (ABS)Helgeland Ferdigbetong
All 280 partners, with country and shared projects

Research themes

What the grants cover

Inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure

TUBERSOPTIMISleekShipAUTOPSYENORASIS

Advanced manufacturing and industrial AI

ARISEMANiBOTSoliDAIRKYKLOS 4.0

Health and wellbeing

SWAGPALPABLEODINSocketSense

Circular economy and sustainability

ENKORETheseusECOSHIPYARDGrinner

Education, memory and democratic values

Echoes of MemoryPlantForm

Security and resilience

PANTHEONPARSEC

Robotics for agri-food

SOFTGRASPSoftGrip

Sensing and imaging

FleX-RAY

Trustworthy and green AI

RAIDO

Results

Recent publications

All 31 publications

Results

Patents

  • 2026
    Radiation detector and method of using the same
    GrantedEP 4 407 350 B1
  • 2025
    Precision machine for cutting and depositing non-metallic spacers
    GrantedGR 1011084
  • 2026
    Precision machine for cutting and depositing non-metallic spacers
    International application publishedWO 2026/154276 A1

Patent details

Invitation

Working with Tech Hive Labs

We join consortia as coordinator or as a technical partner. We have led consortia of up to 18 organisations and taken part in consortia of more than 50.

What we deliver. Automation and robotics, machine vision, machine design, modelling and simulation, data science, edge computing, and software for people who operate robots.

Who we bring. Industrial partners and their use cases: companies with a problem to solve and a site to test the answer, such as a factory, a shipyard, a drinking-water network or a recycling plant. 141 of our 280 partners are companies.

To discuss a proposal, write to info@thlabs.eu.

Legal name
Tech Hive Labs Astiki Mi Kerdoskopiki Etaireia
Participant Identification Code (PIC)
906183701
Organisation type
Research organisationCivil non-profit company (AMKE), registered in Greece
Registered office
Iliados 7, 152 31 Chalandri, Athens, Greece