ERF2016 Event overview
“Robotics for Europeans” was the motto of the 7th European Robotics Forum (ERF) which took place on 21-23 March 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 758 attendees from all over Europe and beyond participanted in the Forum, along with 27 exhibitors and 10 sponsors.
PROGRAMME
After its start in San Sebastian in 2010, this annual event has quickly become the most influential meeting of the European robotics community.
Over 600 researchers, engineers, managers, and a growing number of entrepreneurs and business people from all over Europe come together to discuss topics and contents which has an immediate impact on the roadmapping process for robotics in Europe.
Participants profile
- researchers working in basic research, applied research, or in a company using robots, or producing robots or any robotics technologies including autonomous and cognitive systems which are considered for transportation, health, and many other applications
- public or private investors in robotics R&D, or considering expanding your existing range of products and services into robotics
- stakeholders in regional, national, or European investments, technology transfer, to support strategic decisions in favour of the enormous economic potential for robotics expected within the next 10 years
View the .pdf version of the programme here.
View the forum digest (.pdf) here.
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
EVENT OBJECTIVES
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To identify the potential of robotics applications for business, creation of jobs, and meeting societal needs
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To learn about the state of the art and most recent breakthroughs in applications (from agricultural robots to health services)
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To learn about new robotic business potentials, including those through the establishment of spin-offs
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To get to know ongoing initiatives in robotics within Europe
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To listen to the European Commission´s opinion about European robotics
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To influence decision makers and strengthen the collaboration between all stakeholders in the robotics community
ORGANISERS
euRobotics AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif) is a Brussels based international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics. One of the association’s main missions is to collaborate with the European Commission (EC) to develop and implement a strategy and a roadmap for research, technological development and innovation in robotics, in view of the launch of the next framework program Horizon 2020. Towards this end, euRobotics AISBL was formed to engage from the private side in a contractual Public-Private Partnership with the European Union as the public side. The objectives of euRobotics are to boost European robotics…
Laboratory of Robotics (Robolab) has long-standing excellence in the field of man and machine movement analysis, artificial and natural motor control, and psycho physiology measurements. The group has good track in robotic research and applications in clinical as well as in industrial environment. In the past, founders of the laboratory have played the pioneering role in the development of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). The synthesis of simple walking pattern of persons with spinal cord injuries is internationally recognized as original achievement in rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. In present time, the members of the Robolab are making…
Jozef Stefan Institute. We actively contribute to the modern robotics research community for more than two decades. Our research includes almost all branches of robotics research, from kinematics and dynamics, control of mechanisms, robotic vision, up to service robotics. We also implement demanding automation and robotization tasks, which surpass standard and easily applicable solutions. We apply new, innovative, and alternative approaches to the solution. In the last years we do active research in the field of environmental physiology. We do research on the effects of environment on humans and testing of special and specialized equipment…
The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (by short SASA), founded in 1938, is the supreme national institution of sciences and arts. It associates scientists and artists, who have been elected as its members for their outstanding achievements in the field of sciences and arts. SASA cultivates, encourages and promote sciences and arts, through its activities, contributes to the development of scientific thought and creativity in the arts, particularly by: addressing basic issues of sciences and arts; participating in establishing the policies of research activities and creativity in arts; giving appraisals, proposals and opinions on the position, development and promotion…
Cankarjev dom believes that cultural, artistic and scientific creativity meets the basic condition for attaining spiritual freedom and richer spiritual lives of people and social development. Our cultural and congress centre presents, produces, co-produces, organises and provides cultural and artistic, congress and other events, state ceremonies, exhibitions and festivals. Since CD is mostly a cultural centre, over two thirds of the available halls are annually reserved for culture and the arts. With its programme CD has been attempting at enriching the quality of lives, to form, foster and effectuate cultural and wider national identity and educate the young…
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