SWISS ROBOTICS DAY 2021
The vitality and richness of Switzerland’s robotics scene was on full display for this first edition of NCCR Robotics’s flagship event after the pandemic, and it surpassed the scale of previous editions, drawing in almost 500 participants.
The Swiss Robotics Day 2021 took place on the 2nd of November 2021 at the StageOne Event and Convention Hall in Zurich.
Agenda
| 09:15 | Welcome address – Jan Hesthaven, EPFL Vice-President for Academic Affairs – Dario Floreano, Director of LIS lab EPFL and NCCR Robotics |
| 09:30 | The view from inside a disaster zone: Lessons learned from the Surfside, Florida, Collapse – Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University |
| 09:55 | Amphibious robots for studying animal locomotion and for helping in search-and-rescue missions – Auke Ijspeert, Biorobotics lab, EPFL |
| 10:20 | How physical rehabilitation exoskeletons can influence a child’s personal development – Elena García Armada, Centre for Automation and Robotics – UPM and CEO of Marsi Bionics |
| 10:45 | From autonomous mobile robots to self-flying drones: A revolution in the warehouse – Raffaello D’Andrea, ETHZ, Verity, Co-Founder of KIVA systems |
| 11:10 | Robotics for the Post of tomorrow – foresights, opportunities and challenges – Thierry Golliard, Director of Open Innovation and Venturing of Swiss Post |
| 11:35 | From lab to market – the story of Flyability – Adrien Briod, Flyabilty |
| 12:00 | The Innovation Booster Robotics – the central networking hub for the Swiss industry, academia and societal actors in robotics – Aude Billard, LASA lab EPFL, Lead of Innovation Booster Robotics, President Elect of IEEE |
| 16:00 | Robotics Infrastructures – Davide Scaramuzza: the flying arena in Dübendorf – Stéphanie Lacour: the EPFL Neuro-X Institute – Mirko Kovac: the NEST drone infrastructure for building construction – Jan Kerschgens: the EPFL Center for Intelligent Systems – Cesar Cadena: the RobotX Center – Moderation: Tristan Piguet, NCCR Robotics |
| 16:30 | Roundtable: Robots in the workplace: How automation is changing the industry and society – Dario Floreano, NCCR Robotics – Raphael Lalive, UNIL – Alisa Rupenyan-Vasileva, ETHZ – Agnès Petit Markowski, MOBBOT – Pierre Dillenbourg, EPFL – Moderation: Nicola Nosengo, NCCR Robotics |
| 17:15 | NCCR Robotics Awards Ceremony & Closing remarks |
| 17:30 | Aperitif |
| 12:30 | Industrial demonstrators – Human-Robot collaboration for Logistics – Alessandro Giusti – DynaArm – A powerful yet lightweight arm for mobile platforms – Eris Dhionis Sako – Elythor: Solutions for inspecting and monitoring linear infrastructure – Harry Vourtsis – Ascento: simple, fast and versatile mobile robot for security applications – Alessandro Morra – Thymio 3 – A new step towards digital literacy – Fanny Riedo – Variable Stiffness SEA-Scope for Safer Robotic Neurosurgery – Lorin Fasel – mEDFLOW: miniatured Event-Driven Optical FLOW camera – Min Liu – Versatile, affordable, and easy-to-use robotic grippers – Stefan Weirich – Tethered robots for cultivation of steep & terraced vineyards – Max Polzin |
| 14:45 | Start-Up / Scale-Up Carousel – Innovaud (Jean-Michel Stauffer, Innovation advisor for Innovaud) |
| 13:00 | Mentoring session – Simone Schürle-Finke – Laura Marchal-Crespo – Maja Hadziselimovic – Moderation: Auke Ijspeert (EPFL) & Manasi Muglikar (UZH) |
| 14:00 | Innovation Booster Meet & Greet (1)
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| 14:30 | Innovation Booster Meet & Greet (2)
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| 15:00 | Innovation Booster Meet & Greet (3) Theme: New sensing and actuation for robotics |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Standing lunch |
| 13:00 | B2Match networking begins Meeting point for the scheduled meetings in the Faulhaber Networking Area |
| 15:45 | Cod.Act – Machines sonores André & Michel Décosterd |
| 09:30 – 12:00 | iMake-IT Workshops Part 1 |
| 13:00 – 15:30 | iMake-IT Workshops Part 2 |
Flying Arena 1
| 13:30 | Flyability |
| 14:00 | Robotics and Perception Group |
| 15:00 | Elythor |
| 15:30 | Flyability |
| 16:00 | Dronistics |
Flying Arena 2
| 14:00 | Sensors Research Group f1tenth car |
| 15:00 | Autonomous Systems Lab |
12:30 – 17:00 – Exhibition area and demos
GALLERY
Exhibitors
NCCR Robotics Labs
- ASL – Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
- BIOROB – Biorobotics Lab, EPFL
- BIROMED – Bio-Inspired Robots for Medicine Lab, University of Basel
- CHILI – Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction Lab, EPFL
- CREATE – Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab, EPFL
- G-Lab, EPFL
- IDSIA Robotics Lab, SUPSI
- LASA – Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab, EPFL
- LBSI – Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, EPFL
- LIS – Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL
- MLN – Motor Learning and Neurorehabilitation Lab, University of Bern
- MOBOTS – Miniature Mobile Robots Group, EPFL
- NeuroEng – Neuroengineering Lab, ETH Zurich
- RELab – Rehabilitation Engineering Lab, ETH Zurich
- RPG – Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich / ETH Zurich
- RRL – Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, EPFL
- RSL – Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
- SMS – Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
- SRG – Sensors Research Group, ETH Zurich / University of Zurich
- V4RL – Vision for Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich
R&D
- DEKA Research & Development Corporation
- EPFL Xplore
- Euresearch
- First Global
- Roteco | Robotic teacher community
NCCR Robotics Spin-Offs
- Ago Neurotechnologies
- Akina
- ANYbotics AG
- Bota Systems AG
- Dronistics
- Fotokite
- MyoSwiss
- Sevensense Robotics
- SUIND
- TWIICE
Swiss Robotics companies
- AICA Sarl
- AUTONOMYO
- Auxivo
- BlueBotics SA
- F&P Robotics AG
- Faulhaber Minimotor SA
- Floating Robots
- Flybotix
- iniVation
- Omnigrasp
- ROVENSO SA
- Scewo
- senseFly
Sponsors
