Industrial Forum
Oct.24, 14:00-17:00@Main Hall
Organizers: Kensuke Harada (Osaka University), Ryuta Ozawa (Meiji University), Yantao Shen (University of Nevada) and Chao Ren (Tianjin University)
14:03-14:57 Regular Presentation
14:03-14:13 Sony AI
Presenter: Florian Fuchs, AI Engineer
Florian Fuchs is an AI engineer at Sony AI in Zurich. His work focuses on applying Reinforcement Learning to interactive and dynamic games in order to enhance the gaming experience and support game developers to unleash their creativity. Florian holds an MSc in computer science with a focus on machine learning at the University of Zurich. After his master thesis, where he first achieved super-human time trial results in the highly realistic racing simulator “Gran Turismo SPORT” using end-to-end Deep Reinforcement Learning, he joined the Sony AI team which developed the first racing agents competitive with the world’s best e-sports drivers.
14:14-14:24 HERO Lab. (Hakusan Corporation)
Presenter: Shigeo Hirose, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
At the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Shigeo Hirose conducted pioneering research in robotics and mechanical engineering, contributing to the development of robotics through the invention of several new mechanisms. He is dedicated to establish and implement courses that foster creativity and promote manufacturing education beyond the framework of universities. After leaving the Tokyo Tech, he served as the President and Chairman of Hi-Bot, a Tokyo Tech venture. In 2020, he became the director of the HERO Lab, where is developing robots for infrastructure decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, thereby inching towards his goal of developing “practical robots.”
14:25-14:35 LionsBot International
Presenter: Sunardi Tay, Chief Technology Officer
Sunardi Tay is the CTO at LionsBot, a Singapore-headquartered smart robotics company that develops professional cleaning robots. Since the company’s inception in 2018, Sunardi has been leading the overall robotics and software architecture, building the company’s technical expertise from ground-up to launch over 5 successful products worldwide. In just 4 years, Sunardi has built and mentored an engineering team from 0 to over 100, developing an entire cloud robotic ecosystem with scalable architecture. Sunardi’s intense passion for robotics has helped him lead the charge in developing novel approaches to complex challenges in the field of autonomy, cementing himself and the company’s position in autonomous cleaning machines.
14:36-14:46 Technology Innovation Institute
Presenter: Eric Pairet, Lead Researcher
The Autonomous Robotics Research Center (ARRC) at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is the region’s leading organisation advancing robotics, computer vision, and bio-inspired technologies. The center’s robotics specialisation includes perception, communication, control and decision making, bio-inspiration, and self-organised autonomous systems. In this talk, Dr Èric Pairet, Lead Researcher in the institute, will summarize ARRC fast developed technologies in robotics across different domains, including but not limited to: aerial, ground and marine vehicles. Namely for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, shipwreck recovery, oil-spill recovery, surveillance, and reconstruction of damaged ecosystems.
14:47-14:57 VisionNav Robotics
Presenter: Kiki Ren, General Manager of VisionNav Japan
Kiki, General Manager of VisionNav Japan, has lived and studied in Japan for many years, has worked in the robotics industry for nearly 10 years, and is also an excellent project manager. She worked for HIK Robotics as the sales director in Japan, and was in charge of the cooperation with many industry head integrators and agents, and signed a warehouse turnkey project with 183 robots. Now she is the general manager of VisionNav Japan, leading the local team building, market plan and project deployment.
14:58-15:21 Short Presentation
14:58-15:03 Amazon Science
Presenter: Govind Thattai, Principal Applied Scientist
Alexa AI-Natural Understanding
15:04-15:09 Apptronik
Presenter: Jeff Cardenas, CEO
Jeff specializes in new product development and go-to-market strategy. He earned his Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked previously in the Global Commercialization Group at the IC2 Institute at UT Austin, to take innovations out of the research lab and into the market. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from UT Austin and worked in the Technology practice of Deloitte Consulting serving several Fortune 50 companies. He previously founded a non-profit and several start-ups with a passion for delivering technology to solve difficult social problems.
15:04-15:09 Clearpath Robotics
15:10-15:15 Clearpath Robotics
Presenter: Robbie Edwards, Director of Technology
With the proliferation of mobile robots into industry applications, robotics developers are seeking to bring autonomous vehicles to market faster and with a lower technical barrier to entry. Clearpath Robotics, a global leader in providing hardware, software, and services to enable autonomous unmanned ground vehicles, has developed its OutdoorNav autonomous navigation software to address this growing need. The software features robust autonomous navigation using GPS-based localization, tele-operation via web-based interface, and an API for building custom robotics applications. In this talk, we will introduce OutdoorNav and discuss its features, required hardware and interfaces to make an autonomous UGV, and an example of the software in action.
15:16-15:21 Mujin
15:10-15:15 Mujin
Presenter: Felix von Drigalski, Lead Product Engineer
Mujin is developing a universal, intelligent robot controller, the Mujin Controller, that is currently used in production in multiple countries. It provides a unified user and programming interface for many robots and cameras, allowing simple setup of complicated applications such as unstructured piece picking with a wide variety of parts, multi-SKU palletizing/depalletizing or factory automation with top-of-the-line performance. The MujinController uses Machine Intelligence technology combining motion planning and computer vision technology to provide fast set-up, explainable robot behavior and reliable error recovery.
Mujin is actively hiring in Japan, China and the USA.
15:22-15:24 Closing
15:16-15:18 Closing
Video Presentation
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (BIRob), an official journal of Shandong University, supported by the China STEM Journal Excellence Action Plan and published by Elsevier, is launched with the mission to provide a brand new venue for high quality exchange of original research achievements, expert challenging topic surveys and reviews, and emerging new research directions, for researchers and practitioners in the broad areas including but not limited to Biomimetics, AI, and Robotics, with related areas and fusion innovations and original applications. BIRob provides the most authoritative, rigorous, and immediate review and selection of the submitted and invited research manuscripts.
Bosch
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services and comprises Robert Bosch GmbH as well as its roughly 440 subsidiary and regional companies in 60 countries. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. Operating in a global network, Bosch Research fills the innovation pipeline of the Bosch business sectors. The research areas cover a wide portfolio from e-mobility and chemical energy conversion to autonomous systems, information and communication technologies, resource and energy efficiency and healthcare solutions. Research has formed part of Bosch’s DNA for over 130 years and is driven by the belief that research is not an end in itself, but something that makes a tangible contribution to improving the quality of people’s lives. That belief is reflected in the words “Invented for life”.
Dubai Future Foundation
Dubai Future Labs (DFL) is an applied R&D lab specialized in Robotics & AI. Working with private and public entities, the lab identifies challenges in key sectors and develops robotics and AI programs to fill these gaps with global and commercially viable solutions, services, and systems. The lab actively pursues collaborations with universities and businesses on RDI projects. And it provides internship and fellowship programs to talents to equip them with skills needed for the job market. The lab is an initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation, the entity tasked with imagining, designing, and executing the future of Dubai.
Khalifa University
Khalifa University of Science and Technology is an internationally top-ranked research-intensive university located in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It boasts three colleges, three research institutes, 20 research centers, and 37 departments covering a broad range of disciplines in science, engineering, and medicine. Khalifa University is the top-ranked university in the UAE. Its research and academic offerings address the entire range of strategic, scientific and industrial challenges of the 21st century. Khalifa University’s world-class faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities provide an unparalleled learning experience to students around the world. The university brings together the best in science, engineering and medicine in the UAE, to offer specialized degrees that can take promising high school graduates all the way to top-rated doctorate degree holders.
KUKA
KUKA is a global automation corporation with sales of around 3.3 billion euro and roughly 14,000 employees. The company is headquartered in Augsburg, Germany. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of intelligent automation solutions, KUKA offers customer s everything they need from a single source: from robots and cells to fully automated systems and their networking in markets such as automotive, electronics, metal & plastic, consumer goods, e-commerce/retail, and healthcare. (As at December 31, 2021)
Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies
Mech-Mind Robotics is an industry-leading supplier of industrial 3D cameras and software suite for robotic applications. Leveraging 3D vision and AI technologies, we enable industrial robots to manage demanding automation tasks, including bin picking, depalletizing & palletizing, assembly, and more. Our comprehensive product portfolio includes Mech-Eye industrial 3D cameras, Mech-Vision machine vision software, Mech-DLK deep learning platform software, and Mech-Viz robot programming software. Superb usability, approved quality, comprehensive service, and competitive price, that’s what we stand for and how we help our customers to exceed in their business. Mech-Mind has deployed 2000+ AI+3D robotic solutions in 50+ regions, creating visible ROI for 1000 + customers worldwide.
Mitsubishi Electric
Powerful, speedy, and compact Mitsubishi Electric industrial robot MELFA solves the diversifying needs of customers.
The MELFA FR series realizes “next generation manufacturing” more easily, highly and flexibly with new intelligent solutions.
Furthermore, collaborative robot “ASSISTA” is a robot that can work alongside and beside people in busy workplaces. Simpler, easier to use, more flexible. The ASSISTA is a robot for you that will change your image of robots. Mitsubishi Electric provides robots that can meet various needs, such as not only reliable work as an industrial production system, but also R&D applications using real-time control linked to a PC.
Robotis
ROBOTIS is a global robot solutions provider and one of the leading manufacturers of robotic hardware. We proudly produce the industry leading DYNAMIXEL brand of all-in-one smart servos. ROBOTIS specializes in the manufacture of robotic hardware and full robot platforms for use in all fields of study and industry, as well as educational robotics kits for all ages and skill levels. Also, we developed outdoor and indoor delivery robot that autonomously navigates our world to deliver goods. This fully autonomous robot provides the perfect solution in various fields of industry.
THK
THK is a company focused on creation and development that uses original concepts and technology to propose new mechanisms. The LM Guide and other THK products are components that have contributed to the development of industry by enabling machines to operate with high precision and speed while also saving energy. Guided by the corporate philosophy of providing innovative products to the world and generating new trends to contribute to the creation of an affluent society, THK works to contribute to society by continuing to revolutionize as a company focused on creation and development.
Woven Planet Holdings
Woven Planet is building the safest mobility in the world. A subsidiary of Toyota, Woven Planet innovates and invests in new technologies, software, and business models that transform how we live, work and move. With a focus on automated driving, robotics, and Woven City, Woven Planet builds on Toyota’s legacy of trust to deliver secure, connected, reliable, and sustainable mobility solutions for all. Learn more at https://www.woven-planet.global/en
Honda R&D
Honda avatar robot with AI-based operator-supporting-functions and a new multi-fingered hand project is in progress. We are seeking researchers and/or research engineers with an interest in AI, HMI, software and hardware. We welcome you to stop by our booth to see our demos and chat with the research engineers at the event hall. We hope to see you there!
Toyota Frontier Research Center
Mobility for All -Bringing the joy and freedom of movement to all- Facing this once-in-a-century transformational period, TOYOTA has decided to “redesign” from a car-making company into a “mobility company” that provides services related to “movement” for people around the world. TOYOTA believes that there are three kinds of “movements”; a physical “movement”, a virtual “movement” and an emotional “movement”. Frontier Research Center is challenging to create new values which help people with a “desire to move” and the ability to reach their dreams.
Zebra Technologies/Fetch Robotics
Fetch Robotics is well-known in academia for the Fetch Mobile Manipulator which has been purposefully designed for typical human working environments. Universities currently utilize this as an affordable, fully integrated standard platform for mobile manipulation research that enables future roboticists to learn and create automation solutions of their own. Broader Fetch Robotics portfolio includes autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that provide solutions for automation in fulfillment and distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, and other environments that benefit from automated material delivery. Now as a part of Zebra Technologies, we can combine our power to provide ecosystems of automation to our customers.