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Questions to be answered

• What high-potential use cases / applications are not yet automated?
• What unsolved robotic/AI challenges are hindering the automation of those use cases applications?
• Which companies/end users are interested in the automation of those use cases?

Description

Organisation of the WS

• 08:30 – 08:34: Introduction & and short straw poll to elicit more information about participants
• 08:34 – 08:46: Automated Robotic Disassembly of Electric Vehicle Batteries for Recycling (Dr. Raphael Rätz, Robotics Scientist, Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne, Switzerland)
• 08:46 – 08:58: Collaborative WEEE (PCs and other electronic equipment) and Batteries Repair and/or EoL management (Santiago Grandal, R&D Business Development Team Leader, AIMEN, Spain)
• 08:58 – 09:10: AI and Robotics for hydrogen distribution (Prof. Saverio De Vito, ENEA, Italy)
• 09:10 – 09:22: Pioneering Sustainable CRM Recovery in European Mining​ using Robotics solutions (Dr. Fotios K. Konstantinidis, Industry 5.0 & Smart Manufacturing Division leader of ICCS, Greece)​
• 09:22 – 09:34: Light-Field Technology – Game-Changer for Automation (Michael Kunze, CEO MKey Solution GmbH, Germany)
• 09:34 – 09:46: Social Robots and End User Expectations: the Challenges and Opportunities (Dr. Amit Kumar Pandey, CTO Rovial Space, France)
• 09:46 – 09:50: Straw poll: How to elicit use cases from end users

Intended outcome

• List of challenging high-potential use cases by end-users
• Identified clusters of common robotic and AI challenges
• For ERF2026/2027: Feedback from end-users whether challenges have been solved

Speakers, Panelists, etc

• Dr. Raphael Rätz, Robotics Scientist, Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
• Santiago Grandal, R&D Business Development Team Leader, AIMEN, Spain
• Prof. Saverio De Vito, ENEA, Italy.
• Dr. Fotios K. Konstantinidis, Industry 5.0 & Smart Manufacturing Division leader of ICCS, Greece
• Michael Kunze, CEO MKey Solution GmbH, Germany
• Dr. Amit Kumar Pandey, CTO Rovial Space, France.

Topic Groups and/or Innovation networks involved

• Not applicable

Projects involved

• AI-Matters (http://www.ai-matters.eu)
• W2W (https://www.wood2wood-project.eu/)
• Diginitrace (https://www.digintrace.eu/)
• RECLAIM (https://reclaim-box.eu/ )
• Theseus (Start Dec-2024)
• Optiminer (Start Jan-2025)

Further information

• Not applicable

Organisers

• Ramez Awad (Fraunhofer IPA), ramez.awad@ipa.fraunhofer.de
• Dr. Björn Kahl (Fraunhofer IPA), bjoern.kahl@ipa.fraunhofer.de
• Dr. Fotios Konstantinidis (ICCS), fotios.konstantinidis@iccs.gr
• Konstantinos Kokkalis (ICCS) konstantinos.kokkalis@iccs.gr