euRobotics General Assembly final -...

■ 15/10/2013 ■ euRobotics General Assembly ■

euRobotics AISBL General Assembly15th October 2013

Representation of Hessen to the EU21, Rue Montoyer, 1000 Brussels15th October 2013

■ 15/10/2013 ■ euRobotics General Assembly ■ Page 2

Welcome and Opening

Dr. Bernd LiepertPresident euRobotics AISBLCTO KUKA AG

euRobotics General AssemblyRepresentation of Hessen to the EU21, Rue Montoyer, 1000 Brussels15th October 2013


Agenda

Time Topic Responsible10:30 0. Welcome (Representation of Hessen to the EU) von Heusinger10:40 1. Welcome and Opening of General Assembly by the President Liepert10:50 2. Acceptance of the Agenda Bischoff10:55 3. Report from the Vice-Presidents Bischoff / Bruyninckx11:10 4. Report from the Secretary-General (vote) Haass11:20 5. Confirmation of Provisional Members as (full) Members (vote) Bischoff11:25 6. Change of Bylaws / Annual Fees for Associate Members (vote) Bischoff11:35 7. PPP Process / Roadmap / ICT Calls 2014/15 (vote) Bischoff / Bisset12:35 8. European Robotics Week Haass12:40 9. European Robotics Forum ERF 2014 Bruyninckx12:45 10. ICT Conference Vilnius 6-8 Nov. 2013 Haass12:50 11. AUTOMATICA 2014 Brodtmann12:55 12. Branding Pegman13:00 13. Any other business Bischoff13:00 Networking Lunch All14:00 Workshops Bisset16:30 End


Robotics in Horizon 2020

Robotics = pivotal technology Competitiveness Societal challenges Excellence in science

Strong commitment EC = €1.0bn Industry = €3.1bn

Expected impact 75,000 new jobs @ robot makers 30,000 new jobs @ suppliers 140 spin-offs 140,000 new jobs @ service industries Increase of EU-27 GDP by €80bn


Membership

IndustryResearchAssociateeuRobotics AISBL

Legend:

Members’ Locations

Today: 139 members


Membership


Legend:


Forecast 2014– circa 200 members


Membership


Legend:


Forecast 2017– circa 300 members


Acceptance of Agenda

Dr. Rainer BischoffVice-President Industry euRobotics AISBLHead of Technology Development KUKA Laboratories GmbH



Agenda



Voting in the General Assembly

77 members and 23 provisional members are present by a duly registered representative or proxy

Voting cards for general decisions: Green = in favour of resolution Yellow = abstention Red = objection

First vote (only full members): Do you agree to the presented agenda?

Result: The members unanimously accept the agenda.


Report from Vice-Presidents

Dr. Rainer BischoffVice-President IndustryHead of Technology Development KUKA Laboratories GmbH


Prof. Dr. Herman BruyninckxVice-President ResearchDepartment Mechanical Engineering University of Leuven


Origins

NoE EURON I

NoE EURON II

SRA 2009

?

EU Frameprogramme related EU-funded project Networks / associations

2014-2020

2007-2013

2002-2006

1998-2002

?


The way towards the Robotics PPP

Robotics PPP

2012 2013 2014

Private Partner

a i s b l

PPP Info Day for Industry

12.06.2012

euRobotics aisblFounding event

17.09.2012MoU Signing event with EC

18.09.2012

EUROP

EURON

Regular meetingsstructured dialogue

Public Partner

19.-21.03.2013 13.06.2013

PPP Application


Structure of euRobotics aisblStructure of euRobotics aisbl - private side of the Robotics PPP

Communication with the EC

elect

elect elect

elect

euRobotics Industry Board

Representatives from industry

euRobotics Research Board

Representatives from research

Industrial chair and vice

president

Researchchair and vice

president

elect

choose / employ

Treasurer

President *(from industry)

Secretary-General

(Secretariat)

Industrial Membership● Robot Manufacturers● Partners (suppliers, integrator, end user, …)

General Assembly Research Membership● Research Technology Organisations● Higher Education Establishments

Board of Directors


Industry BoD members

Rainer Bischoff, KUKA, Germany, Vice-President Industry Giovanni Barontini, Finmeccanica, Italy, RM-L, Treasurer Geoff Pegman, RURobots, UK, RM-SME Nicola Tomatis, BlueBotics, Switzerland, RM-SME Rodolphe Gelin, Aldebaran, France, RM‐SME Björn Matthias, ABB, Sweden, RM‐L Hans-Peter Grothaus, Claas, Germany, RM-L Georg von Wichert, Siemens, Germany, P Christopher Parlitz, Schunk, Germany, P Renaud Champion, Robolution Capital, France, P Thilo Brodtmann, EUnited Robotics, Belgium, P N, NN, P end user

Elected at General AssemblyLyon, March 20, 2013


Research BoD members

HES: Herman Bruyninckx, KUL, Belgium, HES, Vice-President Research Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy, HES Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples, Italy, HES Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland, HES Asfour Tamim, KIT, Germany, HES David Lane, Heriot Watt University, UK, HES John Hallam, Denmark, HESRTO: Jon Agirre Ibarbia, Tecnalia, Spain, RTO Martin Hägele, Fraunhofer IPA, Germany, RTO Alin Albu-Schäffer, DLR, Germany, RTO Irene López de Vallejo, IK4, Spain, RTO Giorgio Metta, IIT, Italy, RTO

Elected at General AssemblyLyon, March 20, 2013


The recipe in summary

Expert input

…ends up in a roadmap

…that leads to focused projects

…and progress


Robotics PPP Roadmapping

EUEuropean Robotics

Community

DG CONNECT

PPP Advisory Group

Board of Directors EC RoboticsRepresentatives

Road map +Call

Texts

Input to SRA and multi-annual road map

PPP SupervisoryBoard

strategicinput +

direction

Workingdocument + evaluations

Topic Groups

Independent Experts


Candidate Topic Groups

Technical Topic Groups Aerial Robots (Anibal Ollero) Agriculture (Thilo Steckel) Autonomous Navigation (Jesús-Pablo Gonzalez) Benchmarking and Competitions (Fabio Bonsignorio) Bio-Inspired Robots (Manuel Armada) Civil Robots (Flavio Fusco) Cognitive Systems and AI (Alessandro Saffiotti & David Vernon) Companions / Service Robotics (Paulo Dario) Field/Service Robots in unstructured Environments (Roland Siegwart) Healthcare (Christophe Leroux)



Technical Topic Groups (cont.) Industrial Robots (Björn Matthias)Maintenance and Inspection (Ekki Zwicker) Marine Robotics (Massimo Caccia)Materials (Giorgio Metta)Mechatronics (Michael Suppa)Miniaturised Robots (Nicolas Andreff) Natural Interaction with Social Robots (Kerstin Dautenhahn) Perception (Michael Suppa) Physical Human Robot Interaction (Sami Haddadin) Systems Engineering (Alois Knoll)



Technical Topic Groups (cont.) Space Robotics (Thomas Vögele) Telerobotics (Manuel Ferre)

Non-technical Topic Groups Education (?) Entrepreneurship (Erwin Prassler) Ethical-Legal-Societal Issues (ELS) (Christophe Leroux) Standardisation (Paolo Barattini)


Topic Groups: process till ERF 2014

Coaching: Fusion Cooperation Synergies

MAR inputs: step change definitions linking application domains and (combined) technologies

ERF 2014 workshop preparation:many slots in workshop programme General Assembly: votes on final acceptance


Task Forces of the Board of Directors

Task Force DriverPPP Application Geoff PegmanBudget and Finances Uwe HaassIT Infrastructure John HallamWeb Content Bruno SicilianoEducation and Training John HallamHistory of EUROP and EURON Paolo DarioETP Status of euRobotics AISBL Jon AgirreIdentity and Branding Renaud ChampionERF 2014 Call for Hosts Herman BruyninckxERF Concept Herman BruyninckxEuropean Robotics Week Concept Irene Lopez de VallejoMembership Uwe Haass


Task Forces of the Board of Directors

Task Force DriverAwards Martin HägeleTopic Groups Herman BruyninckxSRA Geoff PegmanInnovation John AgirreEthical, Legal and Societal Issues Irene Lopez de VallejoInteraction with Regional and International Networks Bruno Siciliano

Interaction with Policy Makers and Member States Paolo Dario

Public Relations Uwe HaassBylaws and BoD Processes Giovanni Barontini


Report from Secretary-General

Dr. Uwe HaassSecretary-General euRobotics AISBL



Structure of the Report

1. Membership2. Budget without influence of EU projects3. RockEU Project4. Budget with influence of EU projects5. Vote


Membership Growth

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct

Uwe Haass starts on 1 March2012 201317/09/2012


5

47

87AssociateIndustryResearch

Membership – 11 October 2013

Total = 139 members


Origin of Membership Fees

1.000 €

197.450 €

204.850 €

AssociateIndustryResearch

Theoretical total (in the subsequent year!) = 403.300 €


Growing Membership…

…proves that this association is of value to members.

…has an influence on:

available budget

on services made available

resources for administrative management / infrastructure:Staff since 1 September 2013: ½ Office Manager, 1/1 Assistant Project Manager

In the following: Budget calculation without taking any additional funding from EU projects into account (Case 1).


Case 1: no influence of EU funded projects

All figures in €

Sep-Dec 2012

(audited)

2013 2014 2015

Income *)

48.125 268.369 290.600 325.650

Expenses 33.833 212.940 289.700 305.800

Net 12.242 55.429 900 19.850

*) Income is membership minus free tickets to ERF, minus bad debt


RockEU will support euRobotics AISBL

Objective #1:Coordinating roadmapping and innovationObjective #2:Fostering collaboration among all stakeholdersObjective #3:Promoting European robotics to go beyond current European robotics to include new sectors, applications, stakeholders


Partners in RockEU


euRobotics AISBL contributes to…

Tasks Main Activities of euRobotics AISBL PMWP1 Robotics roadmap coordination

T1.2 Supporting the elaboration and compilation of SRA & roadmap 3T1.3 Support for the “refactoring” of roadmaps for work programmes 1

WP2 Robotics PPP preparation and ramp-upT2.1 Support the establishment of a PPP in robotics 6T2.2 Support for PPP operations 9

WP 4 Robotics networking

T4.1 Organisation and support of studies, networking events, workshops and conferences 8

T4.2 Newsletters to facilitate membership networking and acquisition 3

T4.4 Cooperation and coordination with related PPPs, ETPs and other bodies 1

T4.6 Membership development 2


euRobotics AISBL contributes to…

Tasks Main Activities of euRobotics AISBL PMWP5 Dissemination and Outreach

T5.1 Branding 2T5.2 Public Relations 6

WP6 Project ManagementT6.1 Project administration 9T6.2 Expert budget administration 4

Total 53


Financial Implications of RockEU on cost centre 1000 of euRobotics AISBL

Reductions of Costs Extensions of CostsPersonnel costs decrease as an effect of synergies between RockEU and euRobotics AISBL

The indirect costs are not funded to 100%. This means euRobotics has to cover a gap estimated at € 54.000

euRobotics AISBL Cost Centres

Cost Centre 1000:

Basic Membership Operations

Cost Centre Group 2000:EU Projects

Cost Centre 2100

Project RockEU

Cost Centre 5000:

Services


Financial Implications of RockEU on cost centre 1000 of euRobotics AISBL

All figures in €

2013Case 1

2013Case

RockEU

2014Case 1

2014Case

RockEU

2015Case 1

2015Case

RockEUIncome 268.369 268.369 290.600 290.600 325.650 325.650

Expenses 212.940 172.140 289.700 273.400 305.800 288.000

Net 55.429 96.229 900 17.200 19.850 37.650


Principles of Financial Management

solid planning strong separation of basic operations, EU-funded projects,

services build up a reserve which is ½ year of expenses

(also to preserve liquidity during EU project) use income to the service of the members


Vote on association finances

1. The General Assembly accepts the Financial Report of the Secretary-General.

2. The General Assembly takes note of the auditor’s report for the financial period 1 September – 31 December 2012, and thanks the auditing company CdP de Wulf & Co for its service.

3. The General Assembly accepts the updated Budgets 2013 – 2014.4. The General Assembly approves

a) the generation of a financial reserve of 6 months and b) that the budgets for basic operations and EU projects are kept separate. c) that the influence of engagements in EU projects to the basic operations

of euRobotics AISBL be kept visible.

Result: The members unanimously vote in favor of the resolutions presented above.


Vote on new members and Bylaws




New provisional members29 new memberssince ERF 2013 M.-

No. Organisation State Ty-pe Represented by

111 Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering FI R Prof. Ville Kirky112 University of Hertfordshire UK R Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn113 Innovation Network RoboCluster DK A Bjarke Nielsen114 University of Zagreb, Faculty of EE HR R Prof. Nikola Mišković115 University of Nottingham, Manufacturing Division UK R Dr David T. Branson III116 Tampere Univ. of Technology, Faculty of Engineering Sci. FI R Prof. Pasi Kallio117 University of Cassino, Dept. Electrical Engineering IT R Prof. Gianluca Antonelli118 DFKI Robotics Innovation Center DE R Dr. Thomas Vögele119 KTH Centre for Autonomous Systems SE R Prof. Danica Kragic120 Offis e.V. Group Automated Nanohandling DE R Dr. Albert Sill121 Percipio Robotics FR I Dr. Michael Gauthier122 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland FI R Dr. Ali Muhammad123 University Bremen Institute for Artificial Intelligence DE R Prof. Michael Beetz124 National Instruments UK UK I Dr. David Baker125 Universidad del Pais Vasco ES R Prof. Elena Lazkano

126 RoboNED NL Air. Ditske Kranenburg-de Lange

127 Fundació Privada ASCAMM ES RMr Jesús-Pablo Gonzáles-Villodres

128 TUM Institute Cognitive Systems DE R Prof. Gordon Cheng129 ETH Zurich CH R Prof. Roland Siegwart130 Helmholtz Alliance ROBEX at Alfred Wegener Institute AWI DE A Dipl.-Phys. Martina Wilde131 Manufacturing Technology Centre UK R Mr. Jeremy Hadall132 AIMEN ES R Prof. Felix Vidal133 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Robotik DE A Prof. Dr. Tamim Asfour134 Richard Wolf GmbH DE I Dr.-Ing. Frank Wehrheim

135 Autonomous Motion Department / Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems

DE R Dr. Jeannette Bohg

136 Universitat de les Illes Balears ES R Dr. Gabriel Oliver

137 INDRA SISTEMAS, S.A. ES IMr. Jose Luis AngosoGonzález

138 Siena Robotics and Systems Lab at Dipt. Ingegn. dell' Inform. e Sci. Mathem.

IT R Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo

139 Universitá Campus Bio-medico di Roma IT R Prof. Eugenio Guglielmelli140141

Membership Application to Secretary-General

Board of Directors decides on provisional membership

General Assembly decides on "full" membership


Vote on acceptance of new members

1. The General Assembly confirms full membership of the before-mentioned organisations that have applied for membership since the last General Assembly on 20 March 2013 (Lyon) and were already accepted as provisional members by the Board of Directors (Background: Statutes Articles 6.4 and 6.5).

Result: All provisional members are unanimously accepted as fullmembers by the currently present or represented full members.

For the following decisions today’s General Assembly encompasses exactly 100 present or represented members.


Change of Bylaws (wrt fees)

Motivation to change the fee for associated members Associate Membership defined in Statutes Associate Members have no voting rights, but enjoy the following

rights: (a) participating in the General Assembly as observers without voting rights; (b) participating in the activities of the Association without voting rights.

Hence, Associate Members enjoy first‐hand access to information and networking. Due to their character as a network themselves, they can distribute these privileges to their own members.


Consequences of changing Bylaws

Previous BoD suggestsFree ticket for ERF none noneVoting rights in General Assembly none noneReceive all information yes yesDistribute all information to the partners in the local network

yes yes

Take part in the roadmapping workshops

yes yes

Annual Membership fees none € 250,00


Vote on changing Bylaws

1. The General Assembly confirms a vote of the Board of Directors of 27 August 2013 that the Bylaws are amended such that new Associate Members pay an annual membership fee of 250 Euro. Existing Associate Members will be asked to adopt this new scheme from 2014 onwards, but they are not required to pay in 2013 (until now, Associate Members were exempt from paying an annual fee).

Result: The members unanimously approve the above presented resolution.


PPP process:- presentation of the Roadmap 2014-2015 - recommendation of BoD for ICT Calls 2014/15- discussion on process and recommendation- vote on recommendation



Presentation of roadmap 2014-2015

Dr. David BissetCEO iTechnic Ltd



Roadmapping Overview

The Roadmap The Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) The Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR)

The WikiDomains and Markets System Abilities Technologies Technology Combinations


Two Documents

SRA = High level document wide readership overview of status version 0v42 Released sets terminology

MAR = Technical detail updated each year tracks trends in progress workshop today

Multi-Annual Roadmap



Roadmap Progression

First Workshop in Leuven (September 2012) SRA 0v2 released (February 2013)Workshops at ERF 2013 (March 2013) SRA 0v3 released (July 2013)Workshop Frankfurt (September 2013) Preliminary MAR distributed

SRA 0v4 released (October 2013)Workshop Today First Draft MAR (December 2013)Workshops ERF 2014 (March 2014)


THE WIKI


55 downloads of new SRAin 48 hours

252 registered users



DOMAINS


Sub-Domains

Market Domains

Technologies

Robots

Services

Robot Markets

Market domains vs. robot markets


Current market domains


Domestic AppliancesAssistive LivingEntertainmentEducationMonitoring and Security…

Civil InfrastructureEnvironmentSearch and RescueLaw EnforcementEmergency ServicesScience Support…

Mining and MineralsUtilities and ServiceConstruction and DemolitionInspection and MonitoringMarketing…

Goods TransportPeople TransportWarehousing…

ProductionFoodSME Manufacture...

AgricultureForestryFisheries...

SurgicalTherapy & RehabTrainingAssistive Robotics...

Manufacturing

Agriculture

Healthcare

Com

mercial

Logistics and transport

Civil

Consum

er

Current market sub-domains


Sub-Domains

Market Domains

Technologies

Robots

Services

Robot Markets

Market domains vs. robot markets


Operating Environment

Physical Form

User Interaction

Marine RobotsAerial Robots…

Miniature RobotsRobot Arms…

Tele-operatedExo-Skeletons…

Robot markets


SYSTEM ABILITIES


Systems Development MechatronicsHuman Robot

Interaction Perception Navigation Cognition

Robot System

ManipulationAbility Adaptability Dependability

MotionAbility Configurability

InteractionCapability

PerceptionAbility

DecisionalAutonomy

CognitiveAbility

System abilities


ConfigurabilityAdaptability

Dependability

Motion CapabilityManipulation Ability

Interaction CapabilityPerception Ability

Decisional AutonomyCognitive Ability

System abilities


TECHNOLOGIES


Sensors

Actuators Control

MechanicalSystems Materials

CommunicationsPower Management

& Supply

System Design

System Architecture

Systems Engineering

System Integration

System of Systems

Modelling and Knowledge

Eng.

Mapping

Localisation Motion Planning

Human Robot Collaboration

Safety

Human Machine Interface

Sensing Interpretation

CognitiveArchitectures

Learning, Development & Adaptation

Knowledge Representation & Reasoning

Action Planning

Natural Interaction

Technologies


Perception

Navigation

Human RobotInteraction

SystemsDevelopment

Mechatronics

Cognition

Technology groups


Technology group slogans


TECHNOLOGY COMBINATIONS


Technology combinations

Fundamental advances often come from combinations of underlying technologies. Technology combinations are areas of significant growth

and opportunity. Technology combinations can provide step changes in

system ability.


Perception

Navigation

Human RobotInteraction

SystemsDevelopment

Mechatronics

Cognition

From technology groups…


…to technology combinations


Summary

This is a community effort. Topic groups and experts play a key role. The SRA defines strategy and terminology. The MAR will provide technical detail. The MAR will need to be revised every year.We have made significant progress since the foundation of

euRobotics AISBL. This is an ongoing process…


Recommendation, discussion and vote




Background on H2020 ICT Work Programme 2014/15

Horizon 2020 LEIT* ICT** Work Programme 2014/15 will contain two calls focussed on robotics. Type of actions supported by these calls

(all funding rates relate to direct costs):a) Research & Innovation Actions

(100% of direct costs, 25% flat rate for indirect costs) = CP100b) Innovation Actions

(for profit bodies: 70% of direct costs, not for profit bodies: 100%; both 25% flat rate for indirect costs) = CP70

c) Pre-Commercial Procurement (70% of direct costs, 25% flat rate for indirect costs) = PCP

d) Coordination and Support Actions (100% of direct costs, 25% flat rate for indirect costs) = CSA

Preliminaryinformation

* LEIT = Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies** ICT = Information and Communication Technologies


BoD Recommendations for ICT Calls 2014 and 2015 General objective and priorities The aim is to develop a new generation of industrial and service robots and

underpinning technologies, in particular enabling robotic systems to operate in dynamic real-world environments, reaching measurable improvements of abilities such as autonomy and adaptability and interacting in safe ways with humans. Priority shall be given to projects driven by industrial or future market needs and that are expected to produce step changes in abilities.

Market domains: agriculture, civil, commercial, consumer, healthcare, manufacturing, transport. Abilities: adaptability, cognitive ability, configurability, decisional

autonomy, dependability, interaction capability, manipulation ability, motion capability, perception ability. Technologies: cognition, human-robot interaction, mechatronics,

navigation, perception.

Extracted from roadmapping process


BoD Recommendations for ICT Calls 2014 and 2015

Recommended market domains ICT Call 1 (opens Dec.13)manufacturing, commercial, civil, agricultureRecommended market domains ICT Call 2 (opens Jul. 14)healthcare, consumer, transport

Motivation: Distribute over the calls both established and new topics ICT Call 2 will feature R&I in robotic technologies for disabled people

(esp. with limb disabilities/amputees) and a PCP action on healthcare


BoD Recommendations for ICT Calls 2014 and 2015

Cross-sectional topics for ICT Call 1 (2014) It will be essential for the deployment of robots to develop and

establish systems development processes, techniques and technologies (from requirement analysis to testing and validation; system design, engineering, architecture, integration, system of systems, modelling and knowledge engineering) applicable across market domains. Shared resources and assessment:

(a) mechanisms for sharing; (b) harmonisation of system design practice; (c) the definition of standards; and (d) high quality validation, maintenance and documentation. Benchmarking initiative to provide means for technology assessment

and transfer, performance evaluation as well as of paving the way to certification of new robotics systems.

Extracted from roadmapping process


Vote on ICT Call priorities

1. The General Assembly accepts the recommendations of the Board of Directors.Regarding the market domains specifically to be mentioned, the suggestion of the Board is:- ICT Call 1: manufacturing, commercial, civil, agriculture;- ICT Call 2: healthcare, consumer, transport.

2. The General Assembly entitles the Board of Directors to negotiate with the public side (the Commission) about the ICT Call 1 and 2 contents along the lines laid out above.

Result: The members approve the above presented resolutions with clear majority (i.e., with 1 objection and 6 abstentions).


European Robotics Week 2013




European Robotics Week 201325 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2013

Register your events now! http://www.eu-robotics.net/eurobotics-week/


European Robotics Forum 2014

Prof. Dr. Herman BruyninckxVice-President ResearchDepartment of Mechanical Engineering University of Leuven




Selected candidate: Rovereto, ItalyMarch 12-14, 2014

Academic Partners: Paolo Fiorini, Alberto Broggi, Paolo Dario, Alessandro De Luca,

Franco Finotti, Bruno Siciliano

Industrial Partners: Alberto Pellero (KUKA Italia), David Corsini (Telerobot)

Programme specials: City of Robots Robots exhibition in MART Museum



Nearest airport: Verona

Train connection: on the line from

Munich to Verona Verona: 30minMunich: 4hrs



3-day programme with 5 parallel tracks: Workshops proposed and organised by community members Topic Group driven workshops on Multi-Annual Roadmap EC forum Workshop on robotics in Italy Entrepreneurship workshop and award Georges Giralt PhD award euRobotics TechTransfer award

Separate rooms for closed-door consortium meetings / proposal preparation Participant registration managed by euRobotics AISBL euRobotics AISBL General Assembly


ICT Conference Vilnius 6-8 Nov. 2013




ICT Conference 2013 (Vilnius)6-8 November 2013

“More than 4000 researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry representatives, young people and politicians will get together in Vilnius.” conference exhibition networking sessions work programme sessions (PPP Robotics: 7 Nov 11:00 hrs) investment forum several entrepreneurship workshops

euRobotics AISBL represented by Secretary-General


AUTOMATICA 2014

Anne WendelRepresenting Thilo BrodtmannDirector euRobotics AISBLVDMA Robotics + AutomationEUnited AISBL



euRobotics at AUTOMATICA 2014

RockEU Coordination Action foresees promoting participation of European research projects, and

Service robotics companies at trade fairs.

AUTOMATICA Service Robotics 2014 was selected for testing a financial & organizational support scheme for SMEs An euRobotics Task Force should prepare Standards and selective criteria discuss additional activities

EUnited Robotics, under contract of RockEU CA, will organize A joint booth of EU-funded research projects organize the involvement of service robotics SMEs


AUTOMATICA facts and figures

Leading international trade fair for Robotics and Mechatronics 5 halls, 55,000m² of exhibition space

697 exhibitors from 40 countries

>30,000 trade visitors from 111 countries

World’s largest range of robotics, assembly systems and machine-vision solutions

Service Robotics Innovation Platform and SR events

Bi-annually (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)

Organised by Messe München

Industry-driven Conceptual partner: VDMA Robotics + Automation

Main decision body: AUTOMATICA industry-advisory board (Bosch Rexroth, FANUC, Güdel, ISRA, KUKA, REIS, SCHUNK, SICK…)


AUTOMATICA 2014

Date: 3 – 6 June 2014

Co-located to intersolar Europe: Trade Fair for photovoltaics, solar heat,

solar construction

MAINTAIN: Trade Fair for Industrial Maintenance

Professional Service Robotics as new focus of exhibition Separate business area for service robotics

Focus on B2B / ready-to-sale products

No military applications

Complemented by R&D

Opportunity for Europe! AUTOMATICA as leading trade show for robotics:

Industrial robots and service robots under one roof



Joint booth of EU-funded research projects

Organisation: co-funded through RockEU

Costs for participation covered through research projects

Chances Show & test project results

Meet potential customers & partners

Promotion and high-visibility of EU-funded research

High interest of EC

Networking, team-bonding, community-building

Good experiences in 2010 & 2012!



Suggestion of the Task Force: 20 companies will get supported € 2,500 / company +travel support

Joint booth with ”all inclusive” service ~10 m² / participant Cost for participation: < € 4500 /participant (=> 2000€)

Open to all European SMEs active in Service Robotics Selection criteria: SME, based in Europe Level of product maturity Presentation: What and how

Timeline: 1 December 2013 - Deadline for Application 15 December 2013 – Final selection

Additional activities done by euRobotics / RockEU CA! Promotion, Investment Day, Invitation and tours for VIPs

SMEs - please consider to participate! => Fill out the application form


Branding

Geoff PegmanDirector euRobotics AISBLCEO RURobots



Branding

A branding exercise is being undertaken for the PPP Paid for by the RockEU Coordination ActionWe have engaged a professional branding agency (Brand Vista) Process is being overseen by a Task Force set up by the euRobotics

Board of Directors

BoD Task Force “Branding”Rainer Bischoff Irene López de VallejoHerman Bruyninckx Geoff PegmanRenaud Champion Nicola TomatisUwe HaassCecile Huet Bjoern Juretzki


Why brand?

Without the clarity of a structured relationship between the different European robotics brands we risk confusing our audiences. To be successful key audiences have to know of our brand

(brand awareness) and understand what it is we are trying to do.


What is being branded?

The Robotics PPP R&D&I Work Programme “Short” timescale launch of new effort in Europe for Robotics

What is not being branded? euRobotics AISBL Long lived action by the European robotics community

However:We are treating the Robotics PPP as a launch sub-brand of

euRobotics AISBL


Defining the brand relationship between the PPP and the Launch Programme Our brand analogy

The Association brand =euRobotics AISBL

The PPP work programme brand = Robotics 2020 / Spark / Sparx/ Phoenix

The NASA architecture The robotics brand architecture

12 ■ 15/10/2013 ■ euRobotics General Assembly ■ Page 98

The Branding Exercise

Establish the core values of the PPP Establish target audiences and key messages, values and

positioningCreating a narrative of the journey to intelligent robotics Differentiating ourselves from the competition

Develop potential names for testingDevelop look and feel for testingDevelop a “One Voice” communications strategyCreate a brand master fileCreate the launch platform


Brand testing


Any other business




Robotics ETP in H2020 (I)– presented by Jon Agirre –

euRobotics BoD decided to create a Task Force for preparing the EUROP ETP assessment in FP7We proposed that strategy development and implementation of the

PPP will be in one hand (euRobotics AISBL) and to create inside euRobotics AISBL a specific Working Group to fulfil

the ETP role.

euRobotics was recognised by the EC as “Robotics ETP”on July 2013 Task Force has ended. The general description of the vision, mission and core

activities of ETPs in H2020 is aligned with the activities that euRobotics AISBL is already performing. But we need an interface to EC on ETP related requests


Robotics ETP in H2020 (II)– presented by Jon Agirre –

We will propose at the BoD to create a WG, formally a committee (see article 9.3 of the statutes), interfacing the EC with euRobotics, that from one side will be in charge of interacting with the EC or other ETPs regarding ETP matters and from the other side will interact with the BoD and other euRobotics working groups such as TF, TG, ... in case some input is required. The "ETP on Robotics Committee" will be coordinated by

Jon Agirre Ibarbia and includes both euRobotics vice-presidents (Industry and Research) and Geoff Pegman.


Any other business

Further questions?Recommendations?

No.

The General Assembly is closed at 13:00.


Agenda



euRobotics Roadmapping Workshop

Dr. David BissetCEO iTechnic Ltd

euRobotics Roadmapping WorkshopRepresentation of Hessen to the EU21, Rue Montoyer, 1000 Brussels15th October 2013


Roadmapping workshop

David‘s slides!

euRobotics General Assembly final -...

Documents

Transcript of euRobotics General Assembly final -...