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RAISE THE FUTURE

Exhibition Catalog
RAISE THE FUTURE. Artificial images tell the RAISE project


The digital photography exhibition RAISE THE FUTURE is a selection of images created by ITD-CNR and the RAISE Communication Team, as part of Spoke 5, using the Midjourney Artificial Intelligence tool.
It is a creative and collaborative work, with the support of artificial intelligence, to visualize the vision of the future of the RAISE innovation ecosystem and, in more detail, the ongoing research activities and the expected results.
The main themes of RAISE are: the smart and inclusive city, monitoring and care of the environment with eco-robotics, personalized and assisted healthcare with technologies, the sustainable and smart port.

The digital exhibition RAISE THE FUTURE is part of ROMA FOTOGRAFIA – FUTURE from 28 September to 1 December 2024, organized by Roma Fotografia, in co-planning with the Municipality I of Central Rome, in agreement with the Ministry of Culture and with the participation of prestigious Italian museums:
– Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Massimo
– Castel Sant’Angelo
– MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
– GNAM – Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
– Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica – Palazzo Barberini
– Palazzo Merulana


The catalog presents the images in four blocks, according to the schedule of RAISE THE FUTURE in the 6 museums:
– Period 1 | September 28 – October 13
– Period 2 | October 14 – October 27
– Period 3 | October 28 – November 10
– Period 4 | November 11 – December 01

Title:
The other ourself: the digital twin

Description:

Citizens’s needs of and data collected with sensors become memory and together form your digital twin.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
The digital city management

Description:

The various states of the city, combined with its spaces and buildings, form the digital twin of the city, for its better management.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Designing the city of the future

Description:

A vision of the city of the future, while our designers create innovative services to make it intelligent and inclusive with the support of technologies.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Advanced diagnostics and digital twins

Description:

A new understanding of the structure and functioning of organs thanks to digital three-dimensional models.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Personalized smart health care

Description:

For all generations, personalized care, with data collected during daily activities and displayed more effectively, in intelligent environments.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Robotic empahty

Description:

Personal care and assistance, with the support of the most advanced technologies: humanoid social robots.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Bio inspired marine robotics

Description:

New materials and designs to make underwater robots more effective and environmentally friendly in collecting data and samples.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Ecorobotics for the nature

Description:
A new discipline has been born, which brings robotics into dialogue with various other disciplines, such as biology and interface design.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
The agriculture of the future

Description:
The farmer’s work is enhanced and improved with the help of robotics and artificial intelligence.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Ecorobotics and enviromental data

Description:
Robotics, artificial intelligence, sensors, laser scanning and other technologies to collect, manage, integrate and visualize data for environmental monitoring.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Smart and sustainable ports

Description:
The most advanced technologies combined and integrated to make the port safer, more sustainable and welcoming.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Robot for port security

Description:
Quadruped robots used to reach places that are difficult for humans to reach in the port, on ships and therefore increase people’s safety.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
Port monitoring with underwater drones

Description:
The cleaning of the submerged surfaces of ships safely for humans, who can remotely pilot underwater robots and can interpret the images collected with the help of artificial intelligence.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 1

Description:
The images of RAISE The Future digital exhibition were co-created by CNR and RAISE’s Spoke 5 Communication Team with artificial intelligence.
The images aim to present RAISE’s vision of the future, with AI and Robotics supporting humans and the land, showing ongoing research and technology transfer activities in an innovative way.

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Ecorobot dialogano con la natura

Title:
Ecorobots dialogue with nature

Description:

Eco-robotics is a new discipline, which brings together robotics, artificial intelligence and ecology for the monitoring and care of the environment based on innovative technologies. A technological approach to protect our great natural capital.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Droni e robot a difesa del patrimonio artistico

Title:
Drones and robots to protect cultural heritage

Description:
A church after an earthquake is a fragile, precious place, exposed to the danger of collapse. An analysis of the conditions is necessary but dangerous for human beings. Drones and quadruped robots can be sent for an inspection and data collection, controlled by remote safety experts.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - L'eco-robotica aerea per il monitoraggio dei siti industriali

Title:
Aerial Eco-Robotics for Industrial Site Monitoring

Description:
In the city of the future, pollution monitoring can take place with swarms of drones, which communicate and interact with each other. The data collected can be analyzed by a specialized person, with an interface that integrates the various data, remotely and safely.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Potatura invernale con l'aiuto del robot

Title:
Winter pruning with the help of the robot

Description:
Quadruped robots will be at the service of human beings in the vineyard of the future. Carrying out efficient pruning in adverse weather conditions and rough terrain will become easier and less burdensome. Viticulture evolves, with terrestrial ecorobotics.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Visione digitale integrata nelle protesi robotiche del futuro

Title:
Digital Vision Integrated into Robotic Prosthetics of the Future

Description:
Robotics is also the development of new advanced prosthetics and exoskeletons. We are creating innovative prosthetics including a new robotic hand equipped with a camera that will facilitate the recognition and manipulation of objects. A hand that sees.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Sensori indossabili per la cura da remoto dei pazienti

Title:
Wearable Sensors for Remote Patient Care

Description:
Personalized care will be possible thanks to wearable sensors that detect the patient’s condition, in his home context, capable of directly sending the data to the trusted doctor. The check up becomes faster, more effective and simple, from your own home.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Tecnologie innovative per l'analisi tempestiva dei danni cerebrali

Title:
Innovative technologies for early analysis of brain damage

Description:
After a stroke, early diagnosis is essential. This will be possible thanks to an intelligent helmet, which allows medical personnel to process patient data with the support of artificial intelligence.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Percorsi intelligenti nella città inclusiva

Title:
Smart routes in the inclusive city

Description:
The smart and inclusive city of the future will offer citizens personalized routes based on their needs and easily accessible from their mobile devices, such as tablets or cell phones.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Gemelli digitali per progettare le città del futuro

Title:
Digital Twins to Design the Cities of the Future

Description:
Our computer graphics experts are creating 3D models of the city, which will become tools for visualization and dynamic data integration, for a new understanding and management of the city of the future.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Piattaforma digitale per la gestione delle smart city

Title:
Urban dashboard for the management of smart cities

Description:
The city of the future requires for its challenges an understanding of complexity and memory, which is in the data. Thanks to the “urban dashboard”, political decision makers, managers who manage cities will have a valuable tool to support their decisions, with digital interfaces and platforms specifically designed.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Il sorriso del robot per l'accoglienza dei turisti

Title:
The robot’s smile for welcoming tourists

Description:
In an intelligent and sustainable port vision of the future, robots can be alongside human operators to welcome tourists from cruise ships, especially families with children and younger tourists.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - La boa intelligente per navigare in sicurezza

Title:
The smart buoy for safe navigation

Description:
The buoy becomes an intelligent tool, useful for identifying the possible arrival of extreme waves in real time, thus increasing navigation safety. A precious warning tool, for the benefit of those who work at sea.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Prevenire i rischi con la robotica portuale

Title:
Preventing risks with port robotics

Description:
Quadruped robots will be equipped with special eyes: advanced inspection cameras, which could be of fundamental support in the port of the future, to identify damage and therefore to help human beings in improving the safety of port logistics.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 2

Description:
The images of RAISE The Future digital exhibition were co-created by CNR and RAISE’s Spoke 5 Communication Team with artificial intelligence.
The images aim to present RAISE’s vision of the future, with AI and Robotics supporting humans and the land, showing ongoing research and technology transfer activities in an innovative way.

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - RoboTango

Title:
RoboTango

Description:

Advanced interaction between people and humanoid robots, enhanced with AI, for an inclusive and innovative work and home environment. We improve the tactile and spatial perception capabilities of robots, for a more natural and effective interaction with elderly and disabled people.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Nuovi protettivi

Title:
New nanostructured protectives for biomedical implants

Description:
Medical research is also advancing thanks to new materials and nano-sensors. We are designing a nanostructured antibacterial material for the protection and durability of biomedical implants.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Funzionamento degli organi

Title:
Understanding Organ Function with New Platforms

Description:
Diagnostic images and models for understanding our organs, such as the stomach, are improving with the integration of new advanced techniques, offering doctors valuable new tools for understanding how the human body works and treating it.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Orologio biologico

Title:
Monitoring our biological clock for personal well-being

Description:
Thanks to a new personalized medicine, research on our biological clock, on the genetic and non-genetic factors that influence it and therefore also understand and treat diseases related to it, will be able to advance.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Realtà aumentata

Title:
Augmented Reality in Cities for the Citizens of the Future

Description:
The smart and inclusive city of the future will be accessible thanks to the integration and visualization of city and citizen data.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Percorsi accessibili

Title:
Accessible and personalized paths: the person at the center of innovation

Description:
The smart and inclusive city of the future will be accessible thanks to the integration and visualization of city and citizen data.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Parco giochi

Title:
The advanced playground with smart and interactive street furniture

Description:
Different generations will be able to play in new green spaces that are not only architecturally beautiful but also intelligent, which can receive and communicate data thanks to sensors integrated into the street furniture and return them to users thanks to augmented reality.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Modelli 3d relitti

Title:
Preserving historical wrecks with Eco-Robotics 3D models

Description:
3D models, with the addition of the fourth dimension, i.e. environmental data, as new tools for studying, understanding and protecting underwater archeological sites and wrecks, thanks to the innovative technologies of marine ecorobotics.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Eco robot spiagge

Title:
Eco-Robots to protect the beaches

Description:
Thanks to terrestrial ecorobotics, robots will support humans in keeping beaches and other public places clean.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Robot marini

Title:
Bio-inspired marine robots in action in marine protected areas

Description:
Researchers will be able to remotely guide underwater robots, capable of exploring flora and fauna in marine protected areas and collecting study samples in a sustainable and non-invasive way, thanks to bio-inspired robotic manipulation systems.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Sciami droni

Title:
Swarms of mini drones for risk control and prediction in the port of the future

Description:
Port safety will improve thanks to aerial systems made up of fleets of minidrones, which will be able to monitor the various areas of the port, also predicting risks thanks to the support of artificial intelligence.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Interfacce digitali per il porto

Title:
Digital Interfaces to Manage Logistics in the Ports of the Future

Description:
The port evolves thanks to the possibility of collecting and integrating data, thanks to various technologies, such as sensors, for a better management of all the complex port logistics.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Lavoratori portuali

Title:
The innovative and sensorized overalls of the port workers

Description:
The “port workers”, named “camalli” in Genoa, will be able to use advanced work clothes, with wearable mobile technologies, capable of acquiring real-time data to make their activities safer and more efficient.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 3

Description:
The images of RAISE The Future digital exhibition were co-created by CNR and RAISE’s Spoke 5 Communication Team with artificial intelligence.
The images aim to present RAISE’s vision of the future, with AI and Robotics supporting humans and the land, showing ongoing research and technology transfer activities in an innovative way.

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Musei

Title:
Museums without barriers

Description:

Citizens of the smart inclusive city of the future will be able to choose barrier-free routes to reach a museum and enjoy digital experiences accessible to different types of audiences.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Artistiche

Title:
The robotic footprint in artistic disciplines

Description:

The school of the city of the future will be enriched by technologies, such as social robots and interactive systems to facilitate collaboration and knowledge of emotions, thanks to artistic activities.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Casco

Title:
Smart protection devices

Description:

The bike helmet or other types of helmet can become intelligent thanks to sensors that detect not only the well-being of the person but also the environmental quality of the places visited.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Trainer

Title:
Robotic Trainers in our home

Description:

Social robots can help people in various contexts, including domestic ones, thanks to the knowledge of personal needs and also give advice, for example on an active lifestyle, especially with fragile users.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Cuore

Title:
Advanced tools for personalized care

Description:

This project aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) software that will assist the doctor in choosing the appropriate treatment path tailored to the patient. The AI ​​software will be able, for example, to generate a global blood circulation model.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Equilibrio

Title:
Technologies for the study of balance dysfunctions

Description:

Some diseases can cause a loss of balance, which can be studied and monitored with new technologies, by your doctor and specialists, for a personalized treatment.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Mani robotiche

Title:
Caring for the environment with eco-robotics

Description:

Environmental data will be collected by various tools, including robots and drones, and will be integrated into a data management platform, with new usable interfaces, to support better environmental management by public institutions and other actors. Eco-robotics goes into action, for the care of the environment and therefore of human beings and all living creatures.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Semina robotica

Title:
Bio-inspired robotic seeding

Description:

HybriBot is the seed robot, which will be made with flour and oats and a bio-inspired design and will be used to facilitate reforestation after fires. Biodegradable and plant-based materials make HybriBot a low environmental impact device with great ease of rooting and easy seeding mediated by drones.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Robot sottomarini

Title:
Interconnected underwater robots

Description:

Underwater WIFI systems with integrated nodes and sensors will revolutionize the missions of underwater robots, making them autonomous and interconnected, enhancing the ability to acquire and manage environmental data.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Citizen science

Title:
New applications for citizen science

Description:

Introducing citizens to science and in particular to environmental care from an early age is essential for sustainability. In the future, citizens will be involved in collecting environmental data with easy-to-use portable kits (technologically assisted citizen science), to be used during recreational activities (running, cycling, walking, canoeing, scuba diving, etc.).

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Interfacce digitali porto

Title:
Digital interfaces for port logistics

Description:

In the smart port, people working there will be able to use new interfaces that integrate data on the activities taking place in the port, thus increasing its safety and improving logistics management.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Grandi navi

Title:
Decision-making systems for the management of large ships

Description:

A new tool, the Decision Support System (DSS) will allow to predict future emissions resulting from a specific port scenario (berth occupancy, ship generation use, weather conditions, etc.). Port Authorities will be able to use this tool as a planning system.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Ecosistema RAISE - RAISE The Future Roma - Porto città

Title:
Digitalization of port-city interaction

Description:

In the smart port, operators will be able to use a simulation of the port area and the surrounding urban network, with interactions between the port and the urban infrastructures most affected by port-related flows. Examples of approaches that will be considered include traditional traffic models, established traffic simulation software, and machine learning techniques and models.

Image:
Created with AI

AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso e Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)

AI tool:
Midjourney

Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 4

Description:
The images of RAISE The Future digital exhibition were co-created by CNR and RAISE’s Spoke 5 Communication Team with artificial intelligence.
The images aim to present RAISE’s vision of the future, with AI and Robotics supporting humans and the land, showing ongoing research and technology transfer activities in an innovative way.

Finaziato dall'Unione Europea Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Italia Domani Raise