The Swiss Robotics Days 2022 took place over two days on November 4 & 5 at the Beaulieu Convention Center, in Lausanne, Switzerland
| 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 |
| 13:30 | Flyability |
| 14:00 | Robotics and Perception Group |
| 15:00 | Elythor |
| 15:30 | Flyability |
| 16:00 | Dronistics |
| 14:00 | Sensors Research Group f1tenth car |
| 15:00 | Autonomous Systems Lab |
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