What Knocked Our Socks Off on Day 3 @ Automatica 2022

We had a tremendous third day at Automatica 2022. Cannot imagine there’s just one extra day to go!

We noticed a number of the most audacious robotic demos we have seen to this point, discovered a door specifically made for sweets, and heard some fascinating discussions on the way forward for robotics and the business.

We additionally found that our robots are easy sufficient, a baby can use them!

Listed here are a number of the highlights from at this time…

Large questions No 1: “What robotics…”

It was a day of massive questions right here at Automatica 2022.

One query that got here to our consideration was this puzzling riddle: “What robotics?”

What do you imply “What robotics”?

However you needed to stroll across the nook to search out out the reply. 

Aha!

“What robotics will be!” 

Properly, sure, that does make extra sense. 

A door for sweets?

We additionally handed this uncommon demo of an automated door for conveyor belts. 

Each time the bowl of sweets moved towards the door, the door opened. Clearly, it was an essential bowl of sweets!

Large questions No 2:

Automatica Discussion board celebrates Worldwide Girls in Engineering Day

It is June twenty third at this time and which means it is Worldwide Girls in Engineering Day. The Automatica Discussion board celebrated by posing some massive inquiries to an professional panel.

The dialogue was chaired by Sheila Beladinejad, President of Girls in AI & Robotics.

The individuals have been:

• Adna Bliek – Doctoral Researcher from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Wilfried Eberhardt – Chief Advertising and marketing Officer at KUKA.
• Lioba Suchenwirth – Press and Public Relations at DLR and Vice President of Girls in AI & Robotics.
• Dr Daniel Leidner – Robotics and AI Scientist on the Institute of Robotics & Mechatronics at DLR.
• Dr Katharina Hertkorn – Robotics Engineer at Neatleaf, a robotic platform for indoor plant cultivation.

The full of life and enlightening dialogue coated a variety of subjects round gender range for ladies within the AI and Robotics business.

Just a few of the various takeaways from the dialogue have been:

• Lioba Suchenwirth: The main target of range ought to be a deal with the strengths that these differing views carry, not concentrating on variations.
• Daniel Leidner: Variety is creativity. All of us want to comprehend that creativity comes from having vary of differing opinions and views.
• Katharina Hertkorn: Making workplaces extra numerous can appear exhausting to some folks as a result of they do not acknowledge that listening to differing opinions takes further time. For firms trying to make quick choices, this implies permitting for extra time to make choices so everybody will be heard.
• Wilfried Eberhardt: There may be additionally a query of cultural range. For instance, when KUKA moved into the Chinese language market they got here with their German cultural background and wanted to discover ways to perceive the brand new cultural views.
• Lioba Suchenwirth: The business, which remains to be largely male, sees ladies in engineering and their work via a distinct filter than it sees males. So change isn’t solely about placing ladies in positions of authority in firms, it is also about recognizing that filter and asking “is that this filter useful?”

Sheila Beladinejad completed the dialogue by saying “Allow us to open doorways and preserve them open in order that others might go via them.”

It was a robust dialogue to mark at this time’s Worldwide Girls in Engineering Day. Simply the type of worthwhile dialog that makes Automatica an amazing place to share our views and proceed to develop the robotics business for the higher.

Probably the most audacious robotic demos from the “new child on the block”

Earlier at this time, we reported on our go to to the sales space of latest cognitive robotics startup Neura. We did not have time to point out you all of the daring reveals on their sales space, however there have been a couple of extra issues that have been form of cool.

For instance, that they had a cellular espresso station that drove previous you as you walked across the sales space. There was additionally this chess taking part in robotic (one of many few that did not have a Robotiq gripper so far as we may see, however then we’re biased!)

There was this basketball taking part in robotic, with a really enthusiastic human opponent. 

After which there was a noughts and crosses recreation (which you’ll see within the video on the prime of this put up). When it was your flip to play, the robotic stated loudly “It is your flip”… a bit like an impatient youngster ready to play…

Our Robotiq sales space demo is easy sufficient a baby can use it

Talking of kids, the star of our sales space at this time needed to be this little roboticist who got here alongside to play with our 3 Finger Gripper demo.

After all, it is a cliche to say that one thing is “easy sufficient a baby can use it.” Kids are normally higher at utilizing applied sciences than most adults!

Time to benefit from the solar!

It has been a scorching day right here in Munich. However most of us have been caught inside for the entire day.

So now we’ll calm down and benefit from the solar in a neighborhood beer backyard.

See you tomorrow for the ultimate day!