What Industry Experts Expect for the Future of Robotics

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What is the future of robotics? Here are some very smart people saying some interesting things about it, for only four minutes, at Automatica 2014.

At the Automatica 2014 trade fair several visitors to the ECHORD++ booth were asked one simple question:

 “What do you think is the future of robotics?” 

They got the most interesting answers from roboticists from all over the world (in order of appearance):

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• Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
• Uwe Haass, euRobotics
• Pere Homs, nelmia Robotics Insight
• Christian Schlegel, Hochschule Ulm
• Mary Torrico, Universidad de Tarapacá
• Peter Heiligensetzer, MRK-SYSTEME
• Renaud Champion, Robolution Capital
• Rich Walker, Shadow Robot Company
• Reza Sahand, Rahal Technology 
• Vladimir Čop, SPINEA
• Suraj Nair, SMErobotics
• Dickshon Gange, MAS Holdings
• Holger Wirth, ISRA VISION
• Roko Tschakarow, SCHUNK

"Robots are already everywhere and tomorrow we are going to be living with robots.  The question I always ask myself is, 'When I'm 75 (and I'm 52 right now), how many robots will I be living with?' I predict the answer is 10."

According to Kumar, "Robots are already everywhere and tomorrow we are going to be living with robots.  The question I always ask myself is, 'When I'm 75 (and I'm 52 right now), how many robots will I be living with?' I predict the answer is 10."

ECHORD++ (European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus) is an incubator for promoting interaction between robot manufacturers, researchers and users. This goal of the organization is addressed by implementing three different instruments: the Experiments, Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and the Robotics Innovation Facilities (RIF).


SOURCE  Robotics Europe

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