The main goal of the project is to improve the robotization rate among small and medium-sized enterprises in Uusimaa industrial sectors by supporting and encouraging companies to implement robot solution pilots, thus enabling companies to gain practical experience with a robot operating in their own production environment. The goal is that SMEs' awareness of the potential of robotic solutions would improve, and that as a result of the project, the participating SMEs would invest in robotic solutions already during the project. Robotization rate among Finnish production operations is low when compared to other industrialized countries. According to World Robotics (2022), there were 141 robots per 10,000 industrial workers in use in Finland in 2021, while the corresponding number in Sweden, for example, was 321, and in South Korea, the top country on the list, the number was 1,000. In the largest Finnish companies focused on serial production, the use of robots is advanced, but in SMEs the situation is often different. It is particularly important that the level of automation and robotization rate of Finnish small and medium-sized companies would progress, so that the ability of these companies to keep up with production competition would develop favorably, while at the same time producing vitality to the surrounding ecosystem, both regionally and nationally. The potential benefits of robotics for SMEs and the national economy are clearly demonstrable. The key benefit of robotic solutions for production operations is related to the improvement of efficiency and productivity, the production of cost savings, and thus the improvement of companies' competitiveness. Other benefits of production robots include a high level of quality in repetitive processes, improved occupational safety when robots perform dangerous tasks, resource efficiency and environmental friendliness in the form of even lower material waste, the possibility of releasing human resources from routine work to tasks of higher added value, and the possibility of bringing relief to the difficult availability of special skills in various industries. Based on these benefits, it is important for SMEs to evaluate the meaningfulness and profitability of utilizing robotic solutions, as well as the effects of the benefits of robotics on the company's competitiveness. Taking the relatively low degree of robotization into account, it is important that with the help of the project, SMEs' awareness of the potential of robotics is increased, and companies are supported and encouraged to carry out pilot projects of robotic solutions in their own operations environment, thereby striving to promote the introduction of robotic solutions. Teknologiakeskus TechVilla acts as the main implementer of the project and is responsible for the implementation of the project in Uusimaa. HAMK acts as a partial implementer of the project in Kanta-Häme region. SMEs mainly in the manufacturing and parcel industry in Uusimaa, and mainly food chain SMEs in Kanta-Häme are interviewed and observed. In Uusimaa, the purpose is to support and encourage SMEs to carry out robot solution pilot projects, which focus on e.g. welding, packaging, filling or emptying packaging, or post-processing. In Kanta-Häme, the corresponding pilot projects focus on the various production needs of SMEs in the food chain, such as to production solutions piloted with the help of peripheral technologies connected to e.g. food packaging and package handling. The purpose of the robot pilot projects is both to get new SMEs to try and introduce robot solutions, and to increase the number of companies that are already using robot solutions to expand the use of robots. With these means, the project aims to increase the robotization rate in Uusimaa and Kanta-Häme. With the support of the project, a separate report will be published. Among other findings, the publication presents reasons promoting and inhibiting the introduction of robot solutions in SMEs, as well as observations and suggestions that can be used to promote robotization. The communication of the project targets extensively different parties of the robotization-related ecosystem, and aims to increase the interaction and co-development between the parties by means of network-like activities, taking into account the developers and manufacturers of the solutions, integrators, educational institutions, research organizations, industry communities, and current and potential robot end-user companies. The project meets with Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Programme 2022-2025 focus area Successful Uusimaa’s objectives 2.1 (Promotion of investments and innovations) and 2.2. (Growth driven by technologies and services), and the project indirectly meets with the focus area Environmentally smart Helsinki-Uusimaa’s objectives 1.3. (Resource-smart solutions). Also the project is aligned with the Industrial Modernization objectives of Smart Innovation Strategy for the Helsi