WS#57 Robotics in the pharma industry: from drug discovery to drug delivery

Radhika Gudipati (ARIA), Patrick Courtney (tec-connection), Karol Janik (MTC)Room 25-27

Questions to be answered

To discuss challenges in pharma and life sciences industries

in robot adoption
what are the new opportunities
where are potential collaborations possible

End-users, Research community, Tech developers, suppliers, engineering

community Speakers: end-user organisations, research and academia

Description

The pharmaceutical industries, and life sciences more generally, play an important role in our quality of life and economic prosperity. However, the use of robotics has been quite limited due to missing capability. In this workshop, we bring together perspectives from both the industrial robots and lab robotics TGs to identify and address the challenges.

Speakers and panellists are from End-users, Research, and academic communities (details provided in the sections below).

Tech developers, suppliers, engineering community already expressed interest in participating in the workshop discussions

Organisation of the WS

AGENDA

Introduction & scene setting - 5mins
Presentation 1 - (10+5) mins
Presentation 2 - (10+5) mins
Presentation 3 - (10+5) mins
Panel discussion (audience survey runs in parallel) - 25 mins
Closure - 5mins

Intended outcome

From the audience survey/poll as well as the live conversation in the workshop, we will capture

Challenges in robot adoption
New opportunities that can lead to collaborations

Speakers, Panelists, etc

Speakers:

Milad Jami, Novo Nordisk (Confirmed)
Philip Schneider, Roche (Confirmed)
Andreas Traube, Fraunhofer IPA (Confirmed)

Panellists:

All of the above presenters
Karol Janik, MTC (Confirmed)

Topic Groups and/or Innovation networks involved

Laboratory Robotics TG , Industrial Robotics TG

Projects involved

Digital Manufacturing Accelerator, DMA-MTC (https://digitalmanufacturingaccelerator.com/), Liverpool Metropolitan Area Regional Funding, DMA project involved developing two highly reconfigurable production lines dedicated to pharmaceutical (personalised packaging of pills) and fast moving consumer goods industries (personalised shampoo filling) as a physical demonstration of reconfigurable manufacturing digital infrastructure.

TraceBot (http://www.tracebot.eu) which involved developing traceable robotics suitable for use in regulated environments such as pharmaceutical manufacturing, based on advances in perception, planning and reasoning to create a digital audit trail.