ERF2022 Workshop on Robotics for Sustainability – Manufacturing of Sustainable Robots

In conjunction with the European Robotics Forum 2022, 28^th – 30^th June 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The workshop is held on the 30^th of June at 08:30 CET during the ERF 2022, see ERF 2022 Programme for more details

This workshop is conducted within the Sustainability Topic Group and the Analytical Laboratory Robotics Topic Group of EURobotics

 

AIM and Scope

The use of robotics is increasing around the world and soon every household might have at least one robot in use. Robots can support sustainability across all sectors e.g., fighting climate change, helping to recycle, decreasing waste in manufacturing, reducing the use of chemicals in farming, etc. However, the manufacturing of robots themselves can outbalance the positive impact of robotics if not addressed by the robotics community. This workshop focuses on how robots can be manufactured in a more sustainable way around the aspects of energy, materials, lab and recycling/ circular product design. We expect the audience of the workshop to come from industry (especially robot manufacturers) as well as academia (both from robotics, manufacturing or sustainable production).

The workshop aims to discuss the following topics:

1. Results from workshop “Sustainability and Industrial Robots”, where the audience will be asked about their attitudes towards the SDGs, how they contribute to the SDGs and the challenges they have met or anticipate on their journey towards a more sustainable way of working.
2. Knowledge exchange around attempts for a more sustainable manufacturing of robots: What attempts have been made to manufacture robots in a more sustainable way: where and how to start? What are the experiences and outcomes of this? What are the low-hanging fruits in this journey and where are the real challenges?
3. Inspirational exchange on new innovations to push for more sustainable manufacturing of robots: What are sustainable materials? How can robots be designed in a more sustainable way to facilitate better recycling or a circular design? How can a Life Cycle Assessment help to reduce e.g. CO2 footprint? How should the production set-up look like to e.g. use the right energy at the right time? How can labs contribute to increasing the standard of sustainability in robotics manufacturing and educating robotics companies in their sustainability practices?

 

Expected Outcome:

• Trigger information exchange between academia and industry about the current challenges and possible solutions for sustainable manufacturing of robots
• A position paper on the results of the workshop and share it, e.g., with the respective topic group/s. This will also form as a basis for the newly formed TG Group “Robotics for Sustainability and Environmental Aspects”

 

Invited Speakers:

• Fiachra O’Brolcháin, Dublin City University
• Patrick Courtney, tec-connection
• Radhika Gudipati, Ocado Technology
• Leendert Huis, Lely
• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics

 

Organizers of the workshop:

• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics (linkedin.com/in/fkirstein)
• Patrick Courtney, tec-connection
• Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor GmbH (at.linkedin.com/in/sharathakkaladevi)
• Radhika Gudipati, Ocado Technology

The workshop is co-organized with in the FELICE project and the Collaborate project.

More information:  erf2022.eu/programme/

 

Slides

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In conjunction with the European Robotics Forum 2022, 28^th – 30^th June 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The workshop is held on the 28^th of June at 14:20 CET during the ERF 2022, see ERF 2022 Programme for more details

This workshop is conducted within the Sustainability Topic Group of EURobotics

 

AIM and Scope

Are robotics really able to solve the challenges related to sustainability? Are robots the solution or a problem on their own to sustainability? Come join us in our workshop as we gather experts from academia and industry to discuss the aspects of robotics and their role in sustainability and environmental aspects. The focus of the workshop is on the application of robotics to sustainability and as first steps, define sustainable and environmental aspects in different sectors (manufacturing, agriculture, marine, energy, …) and clarify the role of robotic applications in solving them. This is followed by some ongoing applications and case studies where robotic applications have successfully progressed in creating a difference.

The workshop tackles the following

1. Which challenges can be solved (in principle) by robots when sustainability is concerned. Is robotics a solution or a problem?
2. Different application areas where Robotics help sustainability – HRC for sustainability
3. Present TG on Robotics for sustainability, draft road map, next steps.

 

Expected Outcome:

• Trigger information exchange between academia and industry about the current challenges and possible solutions for sustainable production with application of robots
• A position paper on the results of the workshop and share it, e.g., with the respective topic group/s. This will also form as a basis for the newly formed TG Group “Robotics for Sustainability and Environmental Aspects”

 

Invited Speakers:

• Damien Salle, Tecnalia
• George Michalos, LMS, Greece
• Prof. Stjepan Bogdan, Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems,  Faculty of EE&C, University of Zagreb
• Christian Eitzinger, Profactor GmbH
• Javier Sanchez Cubillo, ZeniaLabs Automation Intelligence S.L.,

 

Organizers of the workshop:

• Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor GmbH (at.linkedin.com/in/sharathakkaladevi)
• Dr. Maria Pateraki, National Technical University of Athens, Institute of Computer Science – FORTH (www.mpateraki.org)
• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics (linkedin.com/in/fkirstein)
• Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Markus Vincze (www.acin.tuwien.ac.at/institut/mvincze/)

The workshop is co-organized with in the FELICE project and the Collaborate project.

More information:  erf2022.eu/programme/

 

Slides:

combined_RoboticApplicationsforSustainability_WS_Slides.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

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In the framework of the M3d+it conference, face-to-face meetings will be scheduled as video conferences. These pre-scheduled B2B meetings offer an ideal opportunity to find potential cooperation partners and establish interesting business and research contacts. Every participant selects his conversation partners individually and has 20 minutes to exchange about projects and products.

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Topic Group Name: “Robotics for Sustainability and Environmental Aspects”

 

Motivation

There is a lack of understanding, active research and definition on the aspect of Sustainability (social, ecological and economic) and the role of robotics. The EU commission is very much interested in pursuing the topics of Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal, which is reflected in the Horizon Europe programme.

Exploiting robotics for sustainability can be done by making  robots  themselves  more  sustainable. Additionally, robots have skills such as strength, precision and sensing often surpassing those of humans. Combining the physical endurance of the robots with the cognitive flexibility of humans in a collaborative fashion is advantageous in different applications that enable sustainability and support environmental aspects.

With this as motivation, we would like to explore the interest of euRobotic member institutions in contributing to the topic group.

Activities of the Topic Group

The following activities are foreseen for contributing members:

• The initial activities would include discussions and active participation in defining relevant aspects of Sustainability and Environmental aspects and what is the role of robotics in achieving them
• In the long run, the topic group will create use cases and collect challenges
• Representing the topic group by organizing workshop (E.g., @ ERF)
• Contributing to the RoadMap for the EU Commission

How can you contribute?

The Topic group is open for all interested members from academia and industry alike who would like to contribute. Just send the topic group leaders an email to be included and receive more details.

 

Leaders for the TG

Franziska Kirstein <fk@nullblue-ocean-robotics.com>, Blue Ocean Robotics, Denmark

Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi <Sharath.Akkaladevi@nullprofactor.at>, Profactor GmbH, Austria

 

Current Members of the Topic Group

• Ole Madsen, Aalborg University
• Maria Pateraki, ICCS, NTUA
• Jesus Pablo, EURECAT
• Amit Kumar Pandey, Socients AI and Robotics (Socially Intelligent Robotics TG)
• Alfio Minissale, COMAU
• Ana-Maria Stancu, Bucharest Promo Robots
• Fausto Ferreira, University of Zagreb
• Christophe Leroux, CEA
• Markus Vincze, TU Vienna
• George Michalos, LMS
• Geoff Pegman, R U Robots
• Francesco Maurelli, Jacobs University Bremen
• Patrick Courtney
• Salle, Damien

More details of the topic group can be found here: Topic Groups – SPARC (sparc-robotics-portal.eu)

 

Upcoming Events

Date and Time	Workshop Name	Topics Groups Involved
June 28th at 14:20, Dock 10 @ ERF 2022	Sustainability Track: Application of Robotics in Sustainability and Environmental aspects (Link)	Sustainability and AI and Cognition
June 28th at 16:10, Dock 10 @ ERF 2022	Sustainability Track: Industrial Robots and Sustainability (Link)	Industrial Robotics and Sustainability
June 29th at 09:50, Dock 10 @ ERF 2022	Sustainability Track: Social Robots: The Duality of Sustainability and Societal Applications (Link)	Socially Intelligent Robotics and Societal Applications and Sustainability
June 30th at 08:30, Dock 15 @ ERF 2022	Sustainability Track: Robotics for Sustainability – Manufacturing of Sustainable Robots (Link)	Sustainability and Laboratory Robotics

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The European Robotics Forum 2021 (ERF2021) will be held online 13-15 April 2021.

AIM and Scope

The workshop deals with the Human Robot Collaboration and AI for Sustainable Production. This workshop focuses on the aspect of collaborative robots for developing sustainable production mainly dealing with topics related to remanufacturing, recycling, true robot collaboration to ease workload on human workers. When considering production scenarios, efficiency and productivity of Human robot collaboration and its application were dealt with quite extensively. However, human robot collaboration and its application for a sustainable production has been dealt only marginally. This workshop with the ERF 2021 as its venue aims to open the dialogue between participants from industry and academia to discuss the current challenges pertaining to sustainability in Production, possible solutions with hybrid human robot collaborative teams to solve the challenges. The speakers (from industry and academia) will shed light on the existing challenges, detail success stories and pave way for the interactive discussion with the audience.

 

Expected Outcome:

• Trigger information exchange between academia and industry about the current challenges and possible solutions for sustainable production with the help human robot collaboration
• A position paper on the results of the workshop and share it, e.g., with the respective topic group/s. This will also form as a basis for the EU funded FELICE project to get stakeholder’s feedback

Invited Speakers:

• Prof. Joachim Hertzberg, DFKI
• Dr. Tuomas J Lukka, HipCode
• Dr. Francesco Longo, CALTEK
• Dr. Massimo Di Pardo CRF
• Dr. Manolis Lourakis, FORTH

Organizers of the workshop:

• Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Profactor GmbH (https://at.linkedin.com/in/sharathakkaladevi)
• Dr. Maria Pateraki, National Technical University of Athens, Institute of Computer Science – FORTH (http://www.mpateraki.org)
• Franziska Kirstein, Blue Ocean Robotics (linkedin.com/in/fkirstein)
• Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Markus Vincze (http://www.acin.tuwien.ac.at/institut/mvincze/)

The workshop is co-organized with in the FELICE project.

 

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