Photonics meets Robotics: AI Success Stories
Best practice for business at its best.
The ‘Photonics meets Robotics: AI Success Stories’ special show held across two trade fairs focusses on the synergies between automatica and Laser World of Photonics—and shows how their two worlds perfectly complement each other in real-world application scenarios. The common denominator: AI. Experience application examples from industry and research that are relevant to your production, too. In addition to exciting exhibits and live demos, you will also benefit from in-depth technical presentations, expert panels, and exchange with both providers and users on site.
Winning team: Get inspired by ‘Photonics meets Robotics: AI Success Stories’ in Hall A3.433 and learn how to use state-of-the-art AI-based methods to link photonics and automation. In this context, curated specialist presentations will be held in 15 hosted slots distributed across all trade fair days—they will give you insights into best practices from both the manufacturing sector and application-oriented research.
Range of topics and exhibits
The special show demonstrates how the vision of self-learning production machinery and fully automated first-time-right (FTR) production is taking shape as artificial intelligence combines the most powerful aspects of photonics and robotics. AI-based product design minimizes the time to market, state-of-the-art machine learning methodology increases production quality while ensuring complete control of processes, and data-based learning systems recognize and rectify deviations in the live process.
Experience our associated exhibits:
- A mobile repair robot performing damage and wear repairs using a laser metal deposition (LMD) process (Picum MT GmbH and Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT) and AI-based LMD process optimization
- A smart welding robot featuring an articulated arm for AI-supported laser welding processes that can be viewed remotely using VR goggles (Carl Cloos Schweisstechnik GmbH, Scansonic MI GmbH, oculavis GmbH, 4D Photonics GmbH, and Fraunhofer ILT)
- AI methods for camera-based recognition of human activities (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA)
- Convolutional neural network (CNN) robustness analysis solutions for inline quality control (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA)
- Highly flexible AI-based logistics and assembly robotics
- Solutions for automated AI-supported engineering
Program highlights
Speaker | Lecture |
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Werner Kraus, | "AI-based robotics as the future of automation" |
Arne Nordmann, | "Cognitive Robots - A New Era of Robotics" |
Prof. Carlo Holly, | "AI-Driven Innovations in Laser-Based Manufacturing: Advancing Design, Control, and Optimization" |
Date | Tuesday, June 24 until Thursday June 27, 2025 |
Time | Daily 09:00-17:00 (Tuesday-Thursday) and 09:00-16:00 (Friday) |
Place | Hall A3 Stand 433 |
Language | English |