WS#46 How can AI enable flexibility in Mobile Lab Robotics – and by the way: what is flexibility in mobile lab robotics?

WS#46 How can AI enable flexibility in Mobile Lab Robotics - and by the way: what is flexibility in mobile lab robotics?

Dr. Carl-Helmut Coulon (INVITE GmbH), )Room 14-16

Questions to be answered

Mobile Robotics

What are the potential applications of mobile robots (in this workshop with robotics arm online) across various industries?
What are the reasons why we do not see getting this type of robot into numbers?
What features do we expect from mobile robots with arm?

AI enabled flexibility

If we expect flexibility as a feature to be fullfilled, how do we define flexiblity?
Where do we expect AI to enable utilization of mobile robotics? Where do we expect AI to enable flexibility?
Where do we expect humanoid robotics to be superior to “wheel based” mobile robotics and why?

Description

A mobile robot (not an AGV but a mobile manipulator) should, by definition, be used flexibly, at least as far as the workplace is concerned. A change of workplace is often accompanied by a change of activity or at least an adaptation of the activity to the new location. Stationary robots can easily convince through precision, speed and power - mobile robots have to convince through flexibility!

Within RoX, we have worked with our partners from the pharmaceutical industry to determine the specific type of flexibility that a mobile robot requires in order to be used flexibly in a pharmaceutical laboratory. Within RoX, we will now research methods from AI and our decentralised Data and Service ecosystem to see how we can achieve this flexibility.

During the workshop, we will discuss our view of the flexibility that is actually needed, as well as our approaches to achieving it. In the best case, we will all learn and together find further approaches to make mobile robotics flexible and thus successful in the future.

Organisation of the WS

11:10 - 11:25 Introduction into the topic, the workshop and research project RoX (By project partners: INVITE GmbH, ABB, DLR, Fraunhofer, RIF; https://www.project-rox.ai/)
11:25 - 11:45 Moderated Interactive Workshop Part 1: Utilization of mobile robotics
11:45 - 12:00 Introduction into AI enabled flexibility: Current definition of flexibility in mobile robotics for lab robotics and expected approaches (By project partners: INVITE GmbH, ABB, DLR, Fraunhofer, RIF)
12:00 - 12:30 Moderated Interactive Workshop Part 2: AI enabled flexibility

Intended outcome

Insights in concrete expectations for mobile robotics in laboratories in the near to mid-term future
Directions for desired and successful contributions of AI to mobile robotics in laboratories
Thoughts about shared challenges of humanoid and mobile robotics