In einer hochkarätig besetzten Podiumsdiskussion diskutieren Top-Manager führender Roboterhersteller ihre Vision von KI – vom Shopfloor zur Gesellschaft: Wo stehen die Marktführer heute bei der Einführung von KI in die Robotik? Wie werden "kognitive" Roboter Produktionsszenarien verändern? Welche neuen Geschäftsmodelle können sich daraus ergeben?
“AI - Transformative Power for Industrial Robotics”: So lautet der Titel der hochkarätig besetzten Podiumsdiskussion am Mittwoch, den 23. Juni von 13:00 bis 14:00 Uhr, die den munich_i Hightech-Summit beendet. Internationale Führungskräfte aus der Robotikindustrie diskutieren mit Prof. Sami Haddadin, munich_i Direktor, die Erkenntnisse der Wissenschaft, die auf dem Summit am Tag zuvor präsentiert wurden und ordnen diese aus der Perspektive der Robotikindustrie ein. Hier blicken die Entscheider der internationalen Robotik in die Zukunft und geben einen inspirierenden Ausblick aus Sicht der Industrie.
CEO
KUKA Robotics
Since August 2018 Klaus König is serving as CEO of KUKA Robotics worldwide.
He joined KUKA AG as Chief Operating Officer in July 2017. In his current function Klaus König reports to the CEO of KUKA AG, Peter Mohnen.
In March 2020 Klaus König of KUKA Robotics has been appointed as the Vice President of International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
From 1997 to 2017 Klaus König held various leadership and technical positions in Operations at Kautex.
Klaus König studied Mechanical Engineering and Plastics Processing at the University of Aachen, Germany (owner of Engineering Degree). He is married and has two children.
“Robots are becoming increasingly capable of learning. Artificial intelligence helps to adapt robotic systems also to unstructured environments and gives robots even more flexibility. Until now, robots have been repetitive, always working with the same precision. The requirements of the future are different. Our customers demand a flexible, yet individual production in changing settings. Artificial intelligence will help to speed up processes and to make complicated programming easier. But there is no substitute for human experience and human creativity.”
President Robotics
YASKAWA Europe
Marcus Mead is an executive leader with 30 years of engineering and management experience across the Aerospace, Automotive and Automation industries. He was educated in the UK and holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters in the Management of Design. In 2018 he became President of Yaskawa Robotics Europe, a role in which he has lead significant diversification of Yaskawa’s commercial business portfolio and has developed Yaskawa’s European wide manufacturing capabilities to a level where Yaskawa is now positioned as a highly capable European manufacturer of robots, peripherals and complex automation systems for Automotive and General Industries. Most recently in 2020, he was elected as Vice Chair of the IFR Robot Supplier Committee, and previous to Yaskawa, he was Managing Director and General Manager of a large European Division of Parker Hannifin Corporation which specialized in providing automation components and solutions to a wide range of industries.
"Advances in robotic, AI and IoT technology are together enabling significant steps forward in machine intelligence, as a result, sustainable improvements in adaptive and collaborative automation are now being realised."
CEO
Universal Robots
Kim Povlsen joined Universal Robots March 1, 2021. Kim is an entrepreneurial executive with a dedicated focus on end customers. Kim brings new perspectives to the table and believes in designing the future through a clear vision. He has a thorough understanding of mixing business, innovation, and transformation. Kim is a Danish native and grew up in Odense, where Universal Robots is headquartered, as well as he holds a Master in Computer Science, Embedded Engineering & AI from the University of Southern Denmark also in Odense. The Danish quality design thinking is essential to Kim as well as an international outlook. Having worked in France and the U.S. before joining Universal Robots, Kim thinks globally and scale ideas accordingly. In addition, he has several leadership certificates, among others from INSEAD in France.
“AI is already an integral part of the UR ecosystem and will play an increasing role moving forward. Producers are facing demands for more agile production paradigms. AI-powered solutions will play an essential role and support learning, adaptability and innovation. But human creativity is still essential, and UR believe in collaboration between humans and AI-powered cobots as the key enabler of sustainable growth. The first AI tools are already here for SMEs to reach their full potential.”
Managing Director
FANUC Deutschland GmbH
“Intelligent industrial robots can make productions faster and more efficient. AI can help to make Intelligent industrial robots easier and more flexible to use. AI and intelligent industrial robots enable new automated product processes and are helping people for better working environment and life quality.”
Direktor der Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) der Technischen Universität München (TUM) und Direktor der munich_i
Prof. Sami Haddadin ist Direktor der Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence an der Technischen Universität München (TUM) und Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Robotik und Systemintelligenz. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen intelligentes Roboterdesign, Roboterlernen, kollektive Intelligenz, Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion, nichtlineare Regelung, Echtzeitplanung, Optimalsteuerung, menschliche Neuromechanik und Robotersicherheit.
Von 2014 bis 2018 war Prof. Haddadin Lehrstuhlinhaber des Instituts für Regelungstechnik an der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover. Er hält Abschlüsse in Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Technologiemanagement der Technischen Universität München sowie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Er promovierte mit summa cum laude an der RWTH Aachen und hat mehr als 130 wissenschaftliche Artikel in internationalen Journalen und Konferenzen veröffentlicht. Im Jahr 2016 gründete er außerdem die Franka Emika GmbH in München.
