We are currently open for receiving inquiries for sponsorship opportunities during 2023 event. Please contact us for more details.
The event would not be fully possible without the generous support of our sponsors.
The Swiss Robotics Days 2023 is sponsored by:
Platinum sponsor
Huawei Technologies is one of the world’s leading providers of information technology and smart devices. The company, headquartered in Shenzhen, China, has 195,000 employees and operates in 170 countries with core business units in Carrier, Enterprise Business, Cloud, Device and Intelligent Automotive Solutions. Huawei alone has 107,000 R&D employees and operates R&D and innovation centers around the world.
Huawei has had its Swiss headquarters in Liebefeld (Bern) since 2008 and offices in Dübendorf, Oerlikon (Zurich) and Lausanne since 2012. Currently, Huawei Switzerland has over 400 employees from over 30 different nations. Huawei contributes to fundamental and applied research in the Zurich Research Center and cooperates with academia, all major Swiss telecommunications providers and is also active in the enterprise and consumer sectors.
For more information, visit Huawei at:
www.huawei.com
twitter.com/huawei
linkedin.com/company/huawei/
Diamond sponsor
The AI Institute aims to solve the most important and fundamental problems in robotics and AI. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States, the research-driven organization brings together top talent in robotics, AI, machine learning, computer science, and engineering with the goal of developing future generations of intelligent machines. The Institute works in four core areas of research: cognitive AI, athletic AI, organic hardware design, and ethics. The Institute’s culture is designed to combine the best features of university research labs with the best features of corporate development labs. Our goal is to create the ‘Bell Labs of Robotics and AI’.
Gold sponsors
Founded in 1947 FAULHABER offers today the most extensive range of miniature and micro drive systems available from a single source worldwide. On the basis of this technological diversity, FAULHABER designs drive solutions that are unique with respect to their precision and reliability in the smallest of spaces. Their main areas of use include production automation and robotics, aerospace, optical systems as well as medicine and laboratory technology. In addition to Germany, FAULHABER maintains development and production locations in Switzerland, USA, Romania and Hungary. Moreover, there are sales partners and subsidiaries in more than 30 countries around the world. At present, the drive specialist has more than 2,099 employees.
Hexagon is the global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. Our technologies are shaping production and people related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.
With more than 200 years of history, Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, is the trusted supplier of premium sensors, software and services. Delivering value every day to professionals in surveying, construction, infrastructure, mining, mapping and other geospatial content-dependent industries, Leica Geosystems leads the industry with innovative solutions to empower our autonomous future.
At maxon, we develop and build high precision electric drive systems that are among the best in the world. Our brushed and brushless DC motors are leading the industry worldwide. They are used wherever requirements are high and engineers cannot afford compromises: maxon actuators are inside NASA’s Mars rovers. They are installed in insulin pumps and surgical power tools. You can find them in humanoid robots and in high-precision industrial applications, in tattoo machines, passenger aircraft, camera lenses, race cars, and cardiac pumps. Besides high-quality micromotors, gearheads, encoders, and controllers, maxon also offers complete mechatronic systems – including battery management systems and master controllers.
Silver sponsors
The Helbling Group supports companies ranging from startups to large corporations with product innovation and development and positions itself as an interdisciplinary nexus of engineering and consulting expertise.
The focus is on sustainable, innovative, and complex systems in a large variety of industries such as robotics and mechatronics, medical technology, household appliances, mechanical and plant engineering, transport, and many more.
Regardless of the individual specifications of the tasks our clients entrust to us, we always have the same goal in mind: to boost their innovative ability and competitiveness. Our professional staff only consider their work to be complete once their client has achieved what our guiding principle claims: “Innovating a sustainable future”.
The group employs over 620 professionals at locations in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, the USA and China and celebrated its 60th anniversary this year.
Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich and the Canton of Zurich are building bridges between science and business: On the one hand, an innovation park is being created on more than 70 hectares at the Dübendorf airfield, and on the other hand, the Division of Business and Economic Development of the Canton of Zurich is offering various consulting services for SMEs and startups. And hey, we will be live on site and leave our robot avatars in the basement.
Bronze sponsors
Are you excited about building high-performance robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans? Amazon Robotics is creating new science products and technologies that make this possible, at Amazon scale. We work at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, robotic manipulation, navigation, and human-robot interaction. In addition to designing, building, and delivering end-to-end robotic systems, our team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, applied scientists, software and hardware engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the lab and in the field. Come join us!
SCHUNK is the international technology leader in toolholding and workholding, gripping technology and automation technology. Approximately 3,500 employees in 8 plants and 34 directly owned subsidiaries and distribution partners in more than 50 countries throughout the world ensure an intensive market presence. Shaping the future with innovative technologies – that is the claim of SCHUNK. To this end, the family-owned company is pushing the agile further development and digitalization of its product and service portfolio in order to make industrial processes more efficient, transparent and sustainable. SCHUNK is facing the current and future challenges together with its customers and partners: Hand in hand for tomorrow!
Other sponsors
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs. Founded in 1865 to facilitate international connectivity in communications networks, we allocate global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, develop the technical standards that ensure networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and strive to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities worldwide. Every time you make a phonecall via the mobile, access the Internet or send an email, you are benefitting from the work of ITU. ITU is committed to connecting all the world’s people – wherever they live and whatever their means. Through our work, we protect and support everyone’s right to communicate.
MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of engineers and scientists, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a block diagram environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain and embedded engineering systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these products to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, communications, electronics, industrial automation, and other industries. MATLAB and Simulink are fundamental teaching and research tools in the world’s top universities and learning institutions. Founded in 1984, MathWorks employs more than 6,000 people in 34 offices around the world, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.