SCHUNK Expert Days take place at the European hot
spot of service robotics
F
rom February 27 – 28, the leading symposium
for applied service robotics from SCHUNK
will take place for the first time in Odense,
Denmark. The third-largest city in Denmark has
developed into a hot spot of European service
robotics in the recent years.
With the motto "Towards Open Robotics", the 11th
Expert Days promises an extensive overview of
the current technology, questions, and trends
of service robotics. Representatives will include
Thomas Pilz, Managing Partner of the German
automation and specialist, Pilz; Niels Jul Jacobsen,
CSO at Mobile Industrial Robots, a Danish
manufacturer of collaborative, mobile robots; and
Jamie Paik, professor at ETH Lausanne and director
of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab.
The range of topics is also diverse: It spans from
human/robot collaboration through humanoid
components and cloud robotics to micro-robots
and bio-robots. The interdisciplinary symposium
is targeted at researchers and technologists,
industrial companies, and start-ups, as well as
at humanities and social scientists, financial
companies, and investors.
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