robots & humans: the future is now
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HUMANS & ROBOTS -THE FUTURE IS NOW
DR. CLAUS LENZBLUE OCEAN ROBOTICS GMBH
INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS
▸ Machines with two or more programmable axes
▸ Mainly robot arms with 6 axes (DOFs)
▸ First robots appeared over 60 years ago
▸ Development mainly driven by automotive sector
▸ Universal, multi-purpose machines supplement specialmachine designs
▸ Often:
▸ robot arms are holding very complex, specific tools
INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS
▸ Highly automated production
▸ Off-line programmed robots work on their own
▸ Strict separation of workspaces between robots andhumans
PRODUCTION
CAN YOU IMAGE A WORLD WITHOUT INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS?
CURRENT TREND - ROBOT CO-WORKERS
▸ Integration of (industrial) robots in human dominated areas of production
▸ flexible and optimized assembly ofproducts with high variety
▸ support of human worker
▸ Combining skills of humans and robots
▸ robot and human work safelytogether on a complex assembly taskas a team
CURRENT TREND - LOGISTICS
‣Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR)
‣Automated warehouses
‣Cope with high growth of e-commerce
‣ Logistic automation in
‣Manufacturing
‣Hospitals, care homes
‣ Facility management
‣Drones (Amazon, DHL, ...)
ROBOTS ARE MORE THAN THAT
2006: „A ROBOT IN EVERY HOME“
Bill Gates
2006: „A ROBOT IN EVERY HOME“ BY BILL GATES
▸ Compares development of robots with the developmentof the PC
▸ Main Challenges:
▸ Lack of common standards and plattforms
▸ Lack of Perception and cognitive abilities
▸ Missing Software tools and ability to reuse code
è This has heavily changed
2016 – THE TURNING POINT
2016 – THE TURNING POINT
2016 – THE TURNING POINT
2016 – THE TURNING POINT
2016 – THE TURNING POINT
MORE (CONSUMER) ROBOTS
Household
Personal Assistants
Consumer Service
Telepresence
Education
Sex
IMPORTANT DRIVERS
‣Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and machinelearning
‣Connectivity of devices (IoT), communication bandwidth andcomputational power
‣Cheap and high quality sensors
‣Advances in machine vision and speech recognitioncapabilities
‣Advances in manipulation capabilites
è consumer robots are getting smarter and better companionsfor humans, beyond being just helpers
ROBOTS ARE CHANGING OUR LIFESALREADY!
BEING REPLACED BY A ROBOT?
‣ Machines are beginning to take over
more and more tasks
à cognitive tasks and analytic tasks
‣ Controverse discussion:
èRobots will eliminate 6% of all US
jobs by 2021
è People will work more
independently and create new
business ideas and models
Forrester’s Brian Hopkins
Erik Brynjolfsson
WHAT ABOUT THE MONKEY?
WHAT ABOUT THE MONKEY?
‣ Robotics is a perfect match to the playful monkey!
‣ We need to continue to ask Questions and use our creativity!
‣ Robots are still very poor at asking insightful questions.
‣ By automating tasks, we are liberating human imagination and the human
spirit.
‣ The more we unlock the secrets of technology, the more we‘ll find ourselves.
THANK YOU!
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