SWISS ROBOTICS DAY 2022
The Swiss Robotics Days 2022 took place over two days on November 4 & 5 at the Beaulieu Convention Center, in Lausanne, Switzerland
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
- BIROMED – Bio-Inspired Robots for Medicine Lab, University of Basel
- BIOROB – Biorobotics Lab, EPFL
- CHILI – Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction Lab, EPFL
- CREATE – Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab, EPFL
- CRL – Computational Robotics Lab, ETHZ
- EMPA – Materials and Technology Center of Robotics
- G-Lab, EPFL
- IDSIA Robotics Lab, SUPSI
- LASA – Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab, EPFL
- LIS – Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL
- LNCO – Laboratory of Cognitve Neuroscience, EPFL
- LSBI – Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, EPFL
- MICROBS – Microbiorobotic Systems Laboratory, 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
- SRG – Sensors Research Group, ETH Zurich / University of Zurich
- SMS – Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
- SRL – Soft Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich
- TNE – Translational Neural Engineering Lab, EPFL
- V4RL – Vision for Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich
NCCR Robotics Spin-Offs
- Ago Neurotechnologies
- Akina
- Bota Systems AG
- Dronistics
- Flyability
- MyoSwiss
- Sevensense Robotics
- SUIND
- TWIICE
Swiss Robotics companies
- AICA Sarl
- Ascento
- Auterion
- Autonomyo
- Auxivo
- Biped
- BlueBotics SA
- Elythor
- Faulhaber Minimotor SA
- Fixposition
- Floating Robots
- Helbling Technik
- Hydromea
- iniVation
- Isochronic
- Kemaro
- maxon
- Raptor
- Robin
- The Swiss Drone and Robotics Centre
- Tribecraft
Funding & Development
- Canton of Zurich
- Center for Intelligent Systems, EPFL
- CERN
- CYBATHLON
- Drone Talks
- Education and Outreach Department, EPFL
- EPFL Xplore
- Euresearch
- i-MakeIT
- Innosuisse
- Innovation Booster Microtech
- Innovation Booster Robotics
- Innovaud
- International Telecommunication Union – UN
- Mobsya
- NCCR Automation
- NCCR dFab
- Nomadz
- REHAssist
- Roteco | Robotic teacher community
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