March 12, 2025 - 10:00am EDT | 15:00 CET
Dr. Susanne Bieller @ IRF


Insight and Outlook on the Global Robotics Market:
This presentation offers a deep dive into the global industrial robotics market dynamics, providing valuable insights into its current state and future projections. It encompasses a comprehensive analysis of worldwide trends, focusing particularly on pivotal regions and the top 15 countries that are instrumental in driving industry growth. Furthermore, this talk will illuminate the prominent trends that are steering this sector's advancement, shedding light on the pivotal forces that determine its trajectory. Alongside this, the discourse will closely examine the flourishing service robotics sector, with a specific emphasis on its application for professional use.
 As a result of this session, participants will attain a holistic and informed comprehension of the prevailing trends, avenues of growth, and prospective developments within the realm of industrial and service robotics.

March 12, 2025 - 11:00am EDT | 16:00 CET
Dr. Satyandra Gupta @ USC


Embodied AI for Enabling Robots to Perform Autonomous Tool Manipulation:
 Humans’ ability to construct and use complex tools makes them different from animals. Many manufacturing applications such as sanding or composite layup require ergonomically challenging tool motions. Robots have successfully reduced the need for humans to perform tedious tasks in mass production applications. Robots are programmed by humans to execute pre-determined tool motions in mass production applications. However, high-mix applications require the part changeover to be accomplished within a few minutes, therefore, we cannot rely on humans to program robots when a new part arrives. Unfortunately, at present, the use of robots in high-mix manufacturing applications is limited, requiring humans to perform ergonomically challenging and physically demanding tasks. Using robots in these applications requires robots to autonomously manipulate tools based on high-level task descriptions and deliver human competitive task performance. This is a challenging problem and addressing it requires leveraging the latest advances in AI. This seminar will present an overview of embodied AI approaches that enable robots to learn safe and efficient autonomous tool manipulation. These new technologies serve as the foundation for realizing smart robotic cells for assembly, composite layup, additive manufacturing, and sanding applications. AI-based planning enables the automated generation of efficient robot trajectories for performing complex tool motions to meet process-specific requirements. Imitation learning enables robots to learn from human experts. The use of synthetic images generated from physics-informed simulations enables the use of deep learning in defect detection. Active learning enables the robotic cell to autonomously and safely conduct experiments to learn the process parameters in the most efficient manner. Smart robotic cells increase human productivity and reduce the need for humans to perform ergonomically challenging tasks.

March 12, 2025 - 12:00pm EDT | 17:00 CET
Jens Mueller @ Mueller und Partner Sachverstaendige

Process or Machine Safety in Robot Applications?

The goal of automation solutions is to achieve high and continuous output. However, the different requirements of process safety/stability sometimes intersect with the implemented safety concepts. In some cases, safety measures may reduce process stability. This webinar will explore these challenges and address them through practical examples from the European market.

March 12, 2025 - 1:30 pm EDT | 18:30 CET
Jim Shimano @ Epson


Optimizing Safety and Productivity Using Industrial and Collaborative Robot Tools:

For the last decade, collaborative robots have opened up new possibilities in the field of automation.  But, as the products and applications have matured, the line between collaborative and industrial applications has begun to blur. In this webinar we will explain how to leverage the tools provided by both industrial and collaborative robots to create the best workcell for your application.  We will take you through a sample safety evaluation and explore some of the new features available in industrial robots to provide new methods to increase worker interaction without sacrificing performance.