“Priority of the Ministry of Development is the research and the innovation directed to the applied economy and has tangible results for citizens, for our country“, Stressed by Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos during his visit to the Athena Research Center today.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Development, Mr. Theodorikakos met with the research staff, the young and the young people who work there.

“We have to combine pioneering in research and innovation, with the ambition of young Greeks and young Greeks to create their family here, to implement their vision and ambition for life in our country“, Mr. Theodorikakos said.

He also stressed that “we can develop agricultural production with new technologies” and also noted that “Greece must become more productive, enhance the research and innovation that will make its business more competitive, with better products that can be able to export them. This is the only Greece that can be safe and stand up. By reinforcing our region and our borders, so as to halt the wave of flight to the basin. “

The Minister of Development also said that ‘Over 370 million euros are going to upgrade the infrastructure of research centers and the next two years the infrastructure image will be completely different“

In closing, he said that “in the coming months a comprehensive research and innovation strategy will be presented, as they are given a lot of money and have to take place.”

The announcement emphasizes that five Greek researchers from Athena and the Technical University built a robotic platform for air container loading, in collaboration with Airbus, which showed great interest in automating the process. In addition, as part of the visit, they also presented:

  • A fetal of robot for use of precision farming, rescue and surveillance of spaces
  • A hybrid robot with a combination of wheels and legs for high speed on demanding ground
  • An open source large linguistic model for Greek, which has been trained in Greek data and texts with approximately 45 billion words
  • An original robotic remote -controlled use of tactile technology
  • Medical Informatics Platform: It is about how to run an experiment on personal data that is normally unacceptable and combined data from many different hospitals, increasing the accuracy of the results

Finally, presentations of the active technoblars of “Athena” (Symbiolabs, Opix, Avisense, Kyklos) and the OpenAire Agency, the Center for Excellence in Robotics by the name of Heron, Actions of Archimedes Unit and there was a discussion of artificial intelligence and Ai Factories. .