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!