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RAISE THE FUTURE 2025
Exhibition Catalog
RAISE THE FUTURE. Images co-created with artificial intelligence tell the RAISE project
From September 27 to November 30, 2025, Rome will host the third edition of Roma Fotografia Future, a major cultural event that blends art, innovation, and new visions of the future.
RAISE is contributing to this event with the digital photo exhibition RAISE THE FUTURE.
The exhibition features digital images inspired by RAISE projects, displayed on LED panels inside some of the capital’s most prestigious museums:
– Castel Sant’Angelo
– National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia
– MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts
– National Galleries of Ancient Art – Palazzo Barberini
– Palazzo Merulana
The images are produced by CNR-IAS and CNR-ITD, co-created using AI tools in a co-design process involving an internal call and the active participation of the RAISE community, with the support of communication leads from the four scientific spokes.
The image selection is curated by the Communication Team of Spoke 5, under the direction of Marco Faimali.
This approach to scientific outreach – sharing the results of RAISE and exploring future scenarios of research and technology transfer – is entirely innovative: through artistic expression and within cultural venues, RAISE presents a vision of an inclusive and sustainable future.
Technology is portrayed as a tool designed to enhance quality of life – within the smart city and smart port, the hospital of the future, and in environments monitored and preserved through ecorobotics.
The images are organized in the catalogue into four periods, and visitors can also view photographs from the first edition held in 2024:
– Period 1 | 27 September – 10 October
– Period 2 | 11 October – 24 October
– Period 3 | 25 October – 7 November
– Period 4 | 8 November – 30 November
Title:
Artecom: Interactivity and AI in Musical Creation
Description:
Artecom’s digital installation, based on artificial intelligence, offers visitors an interactive musical creation experience: sounds, images, and projections transform in real time based on each participant’s unique characteristics.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Monitoring slopes with ecorobotics
Description:
SLHIM is an integrated system for slope monitoring and the assessment of susceptibility to rainfall-induced landslides, as an application of terrestrial ecorobotics.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Personalized care for patients with multiple sclerosis
Description:
The AI-MOKa project enables improved personalized care for patients with multiple sclerosis in a smart environment. Thanks to the use of sensor-equipped glasses and insoles, doctors can monitor a patient’s eye movements, coordination, and balance while they perform a daily task – making a cup of coffee.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
The Biodegradable Seed Robot
Description:
A project inspired by the structure and dispersal strategy of certain plant seeds to create biodegradable artificial robots that can autonomously disperse in the soil and be used for environmental monitoring or reforestation.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Personalized post-stroke rehabilitation
Description:
INVICTUS is an innovative platform that integrates wearable sensors, artificial intelligence, and cloud technology to support motor rehabilitation for people with limb impairments.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
WMission: An Intelligent Underwater Network
Description:
The WMission project aims to create an intelligent underwater network capable of wirelessly detecting and transmitting environmental and monitoring data in real time directly to autonomous underwater vehicles. These marine drones receive information from fixed sensors installed on the seabed and can respond, navigate, or collect additional data in a coordinated manner – without the need for cables or physical connections.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Renaturing La Spezia
Description:
The project involves the development of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), designed through circular and regenerative approaches that use waste from local shellfish production to support the regeneration of the marine environment and the restoration of key species, such as the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis).
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
3D Models for the Smart Port
Description:
With the Sapient project, port logistics are made more efficient and safer through the integration of IoT (Internet of Things) with optimization and 3D simulations.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 1 – Second Edition
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.
Video editing:
Luca Bernava (CNR-ITD)
Title:
Inclusive immersion in the rock-hewn churches
Description:
Rock-hewn churches, often difficult to reach or inaccessible, are being digitized using technologies such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, and virtual restoration, to create an immersive, photorealistic, and inclusive experience, within the METASASSI project.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
The helmet in the smart village
Description:
With the UrbanSense project, citizens of the smart village help collect environmental data using wearable sensors, such as a smart helmet, along with digital technologies and platforms, creating more aware and resilient communities.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Telemedicine for sea rescue
Description:
The innovative platform of the MERMAID-AI project enables sea rescue operations by transmitting vital signs and allowing communication with medical personnel.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
3D models for robotic medicine
Description:
In the hospital of the future, surgeries are made more precise thanks to an intra-body navigation system based on 3D imaging, within the field of robotic surgery.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
The softness of robotic tentacle
Description:
In the field of marine ecorobotics, a soft robotic arm inspired by the versatility of octopus movements is being developed for underwater manipulation.
The main goal is to create a soft arm with sensorized suckers for underwater robots, capable of sampling or handling delicate objects in marine environments.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Ecorobotics for air monitoring
Description:
The MESSAPI project enables the monitoring of airborne substances in industrial settings using drones, as an application of aerial eco-robotics.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Logistics in the smart port and training with 3D models
Description:
The training of smart port personnel is made more effective and safer through the 3D models developed in the SafeForPorts project, with applications in bulk ship logistics.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
The robotic guided tour in the aquarium
Description:
Humanoid robots, such as Alter Ego and Pepper, are used to welcome visitors at the Genoa Aquarium, making the visit more engaging, especially for younger guests.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 2 – Second Edition
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.
Video editing:
Luca Bernava (CNR-ITD)
Title:
Kilometers that turn into rewards thanks to the mobile game
Description:
Puglia Mobility Game is a game that allows players to accumulate points for every kilometer traveled by bicycle, bus, or train. These points can then be converted into vouchers to be spent at local businesses. This promotes both local commerce and the well-being of citizens.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Cognitive Park – where nature meets technology
Description:
The park becomes smart thanks to sensors and advanced urban furniture elements, making it a place of interaction with citizens where the park experience is enhanced and completed with services connected to the smart city system and its digital twin.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Notify me, accompany me, amaze me – with the GIANO app
Description:
With the Giano app, through these three features – Notify Me, Accompany Me, Impress Me – the user can receive personalized suggestions and route guidance based on their tastes and personal needs.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Social robots for domestic care
Description:
Social robots assist the most vulnerable in a home setting, also providing support for daily life activities and personalized health care.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Join in caring for your sea
Description:
Citizen science, thanks to ecorobotics, allows every citizen to collect data during sports activities, as in the Be a Citizen Scientist project, which aims to expand citizens’ ability to contribute to environmental data collection and actively participate in monitoring data and environmental parameters useful for scientific research. Active involvement takes place through the use of low-cost tools and sensors that can be used to ensure the rapid spread of environmental parameter collection during outdoor recreational and sports activities.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
The Christ of the Abyss in 5D
Description:
With the NEPTUNE project, thanks to ecorobotics, artificial intelligence generates 5D digital twins of marine ecosystems, submerged archaeological sites, and underwater statues such as the Christ of the Abyss, also certified via blockchain, for spatio-temporal and semantic analysis using AI algorithms and agents.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from texts collected during an internal call, with the RAISE project teams, as part of a co-design process, and selected by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Quadruped robots for smart port security
Description:
Quadruped robots can explore and monitor areas that are difficult for humans to access in the port, such as narrow tunnels, thus helping to improve both port security and workplace safety.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
AI supporting security in the port
Description:
With the support of AI, it becomes easier and more effective for those working at the port to identify and control access, especially for vehicles carrying hazardous materials, thanks to advanced surveillance software and cameras integrated with AI.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Andrea Ceregini (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 3 – Second Edition
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.
Video editing:
Luca Bernava (CNR-ITD)
Title:
Seagull: a digital flight over the city
Description:
The Seagull Platform symbolically evokes a bird’s-eye view of the city – a perspective capable of capturing its entirety while zooming in on the details of individual neighborhoods. SEAGULL is conceived as an advanced digital service that leverages sub-municipal granular data to measure, monitor, and manage urban complexity, with a strong focus on social inclusion and economic development.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
A next-generation pediatric hospital with smart environments
Description:
A hospital room, furnished like a home and equipped with a sensorized floor, allows the study of parent–child interactions with young patients, enabling personalized care.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Eco-robotics at the service of the marine and lake environment
Description:
EcoMonitoring promotes sustainability and safety through cutting-edge technologies that collect data from multiple sources: SAR radar imagery and smart buoys deployed by autonomous, electrically powered USV drones. This data is processed using EDGE computing and AI deep learning algorithms to generate real-time alerts on potential environmental threats.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Sentinel drones safeguarding ports from radioactive threats
Description:
The ROSSINI project (Remotely-operated On-board inSpections for Special Nuclear material) aims to develop a new and efficient methodology for inspecting containers to prevent the illicit transport of special nuclear material (SNM). The goal is to detect radioactive substances hidden inside a container using drones and robots, while maintaining a safe distance.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Technologies for managing cultural heritage in the aftermath of earthquakes
Description:
Eco-robotics enables the preservation of cultural heritage through an integrated system of robots and drones, which can operate in a post-earthquake historic building to assess damage. The system combines 3D surveying of the structure, such as a church, with photographic documentation.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Shaping inclusive mobility through digital vision
Description:
Bus Line Reader, an advanced cane and companion app for visually impaired users, designed to support mobility in a smart and inclusive city. The app can be controlled directly via the cane and provides contextual descriptions, such as reading signs or indicating nearby bus stops.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Wearable tech and artificial intelligence for port security
Description:
AR technologies, combined with AI, allow port operators to more easily detect damage, such as to a container.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, using prompts developed from technical project descriptions, selected by the Communication Team, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
Dynamic, integrated monitoring for sea exploration
Description:
The project aims to develop and implement an innovative marine monitoring system in the Gulf of Naples, based on marine eco-robotics and integrating multiple tools and data sources.
Image:
Image co-created with AI, prompts developed from texts collected through an internal call with the RAISE project teams, in a co-design process, with selection by the Communication Team, CNR-IAS, Spoke 5 (Patrizia Schettino, CNR-IAS), under the direction of Marco Faimali (CNR-IAS).
AI photo creator:
Giovanni Paolo Caruso (CNR-ITD)
AI tool:
Midjourney
Title:
RAISE The Future digital exhibition: co-creating images with artificial intelligence
Period 4 – Second Edition
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.
Video editing:
Luca Bernava (CNR-ITD)