ERF 2018 – Beyond Smart Robots

The “Beyond Smart Robots” workshop is jointly organized by PROFACTOR and TU Wien during European Robotics Forum (ERF2018), the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, held in Tampere, Finland, on 15 March 2018.

Beyond Smart Robots: Enabling Technologies for True Non-Expert Teaching

In conjunction with the European Robotics Forum 2018, Tampere, Finland, March 13-15, 2018

Aim and Scope

Although academic research demonstrated numerous ways to easily program robots, most of them have not become industrial reality yet. Current industrial robots are still difficult to program, leading to high changeover times when new products are introduced. This is especially challenging considering new trends like high product variants and low lot sizes. In order to compete with global markets, the factories of tomorrow have to close this gap soon.

At the same time, new technologies arising from other scientific branches bring disruptive changes with unexpected opportunities. For example, recent advances in Deep Learning endow robots with “human-level” cognitive capabilities. In some domains, they have even surpassed human skills, e.g. image classification or strategic games. Augmented Reality, as another example, has grown up from the infancy and is a major interaction technology used in gaming industry and modern mobile phones.

Target Audience and Topics

This workshop aims to find synergies between different fields of science to aid in the application area of non-experts robot teaching for industrial processes. In order to limit the high number of possible processes, the focus is on assembly.

The following topics are of interest (but not limited to):

• Enabling technologies for teaching robots
• AI / Deep Learning for robots
• Tools and components that aid in teaching robots
• Augmented reality for teaching robots
• User interaction modules

The workshop will bring together researchers from relevant disciplines to exchange ideas and results towards the goal of boosting learning capabilities of robotics in the factory of the future. The workshop is structured with invited talks that provide both the industrial and academic perspective on the field of teaching robots for industrial environments. The talks present the challenges, new research opportunities and some success stories in this field. The talks are structured with time for questions and interactions to engage the audience and consolidate their point of view.

Invited Talks

• Thomas Madsen Almdal, Danish Technological Institute
• Walter Wohlkinger, Blue Danube Robotics
• Jacek Malec, Lund University
• Kathleen Delang, Fraunhofer IWU
• Mildred Puerto Coy, Tecnalia

Important Dates

Workshop: 15 March 2018, 08:30 – 10:00 (Maestro, Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland)

Organizers

• Andreas Pichler, Profactor GmbH, Austria, www.profactor.at
• Univ.Prof. Dr.techn Markus Vincze, ACIN, TU Vienna, Austria, https://www.acin.tuwien.ac.at/staff/vm/
• Ing. Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor GmbH, Austria, www.profactor.at

In collaboration with:

An important part of the Add+it is the industrial exhibition, where companies  will showcase their latest developments and products.

Silber Partners – Exhibiton Add+it 2020

Bronz Partners

Partner of School Competition

In cooperation with:

Media Partners:

Supported by:

In 2018, the 4rd edition of the Add+it (Symposium on ADDitive Manufacturing and Innovative Technologies), focused on polymers, will take place on September 27 – 28, 2018, in Steyr, AT.

The program is online.

Confirmed speakers – Add+it 2018:

Plenary Speaker

Prof. Neil Hopkinson Xaar Director of 3D Printing Visiting Professor of Manufacturing Engineering (University of Sheffield and Loughborough University) UK	Werner H. Bittner Umdasch Group Ventures GmbH Member of the Executive Board AUT

Material Development

Ing. Kurt Wildfellner BRP Rotax Head of Technical Service AUT	Daniel Plos  Techsoft Sales Manager manufacturing Solutions AUT	Gil Shelef Stratasys System Engineer IL

Medical Application for additive Manufacturing

Dr. Iris Prinz STRATEC Consumables GmbH SVP Product Development AUT	DDr. Michael Malek  KUK Linz Director of the Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Training Coordinator AUT	Veronika Berger JKU Linz – IPPE Researcher AUT

Micro-/Nano- Additive Manufacturing

Dr. Heinz Wanzenböck TU Wien  AUT	Michael Haslinger PROFACTOR AUT	Prof. FH Dr. Jaroslaw Jacak FH OÖ AUT

Prof. Dr. Magnus Kristiansen Institute of Polymer Nanotechnology FHNW CH	Olivier Lietaer e-Xstream Engineering LUX

Integrated Electronics

Dr. Andreas Willert Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS DE	Wolfgang Mildner OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association), MSWtech DE	Martina Harnisch, PhD Sunplugged AT

Florens Wasserfall University of Hamburg DE

Planned Sessions are

• Material Development for AM
• Additive Manufacturing for Medical Applications
• Micro/Nano Additive Manufacturing
• Integrated Electronics

PROGRAM 2017

Here you can download the program of the Add+it 2017.

Feel free to contact us, in case of any questions

contact@nulladdit2018.org   

Verena Musikar MSc

PROFACTOR GmbH
Im Stadtgut A2 | 4407 Steyr-Gleink | Austria
Tel. +43(0)7252 885-142

In March 2018, the 8^th edition of the NIL Industrial Day symposium will be held in Vienna, Austria (March 8-9, 2018, Parkhotel Schönbrunn). The NIL Industrial Day is the major event supplementing the academic and scientific oriented conferences with the aim to inform industrial early adopters and those companies evaluating to invest in Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) as manufacturing method on the status of NIL for production purpose.

Programm is online:

Further information on detailed program, venue and registration will be available soon on the frequently updated conference website:

Registration is open: www.nil-industrialday.org

NILindustrialday 2017

NILindustrialday 2016

Nanoimprint lithography @ PROFACTOR

Exhibitor and Sponsors NILindustrialday 2018

Gold Partners

Silver Partners – Exhibitors

Bronze Partners

Media partner

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Add+it 2020 – CANCELED

September 29-30, 2020, Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr

Statements – Add+it 2018

“The add+it provides an insight into the latest developments in additive manufacturing and brings together Austrian and international stakeholders. I would like to come back for interesting talks and the beautiful location. ” Dr. Jochen Zimmer, Nanoscribe

The EC funded research project DIMAP shows a new additive manufacturing paradigm and opportunities enabled by inkjet based multi material 3D printing. First results in ink development of ceramic en-hanced, electrically conductive, high strength as well as temperature resistant and foamable inks were achieved and first test objects were printed.

The project progress opens up opportunities for a wide range of industrial application.

In this workshop experts of the DIMAP-consortium together with Alphacam cover newest nanotechnologicaloptimized material developments in 3D-printing and the resulting possibilities in production.

WHY PARTICIPATE?
Inkjet based multimaterial 3D-printing can solve complex design tasks, but:

• Which new applications are enabled through the current material developments?
• How can electro-conductive inks be integrated directly into the component design ?
• How reliable will be the upcoming parts ?
• Which material properties are enabled through simulation and voxel-matrix design ?

WHO?
You are familiar with 3D printing and polyjet technology and you want to know more about new functional materials?

Agenda

HOW TO REGISTER?

Please select the DIMAP Lead User Workshop  in the registration from of the Add+it 2017 or write an email to Verena Musikar.