Counting down to Automatica 2023

It’s less than a week until the opening of Automatica 2023, which brings together over 600 exhibitors – including all the leading industry players – plus a top-notch supporting program with a special focus on dialogue and discussions.

The 2023 event includes the high-profile Hightech Summit, premiering formats such as Service Robot City and Mobile Robots in Production, and a wide range of free-to-attend presentations and panel discussions.

The joint Service Robot City pavilion offers an exciting overview of the numerous application fields for service robots. A highlight is the Robot Restaurant which is partly staffed by machines.

Automatica 2023 will also see a live test event for AGV fleets. With an obstacle course over about 850m2, this special demo at Automatica shows how driverless transport vehicles and mobile robots from different manufacturers can be operated flexibly and efficiently—using a control system and shared travel paths.

Further, with maintenance becoming an important interdisciplinary technology, the Smart Maintenance Pavilion will cover topics such as energy and resource management, industrial services, digital aftersales models as well as industrial IT solutions. With its live demonstrations in the Demo Park, talks in the Speakers Corner, and innovative product presentations by exhibitors, the Smart Maintenance Pavilion offers an exciting mix of theory and practice with significant added value.

A highlight of the Hightech Summit is a presentation looking at how industrial robots will, in the future, be programmed using new ‘easy-to-use-AI’ and modern developer tools. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Kroeger, former head of the Google Robotics Software Division and current CTO at Intrinsic, USA, explains exactly what these tools are. Intrinsic is part of the Alphabet group and focuses on developing robotics software as well as AI applications.

And Dr. Jeremy Wyatt, Director of Applied Science at Amazon Robotics, Germany, will present innovative use cases involving robots for handling goods in the world’s largest online retailer’s locations. The core competencies of Amazon Robotics include the development of collaborative and autonomous robots using AI and machine learning for applications deployed across the group of companies.