About this Event

The Robotics Forum at Imperial College London invites you to attend the 2021 Imperial Robotics Forum Industry day, which will take place online on the 29th March 2021, 13:00 – 17:30 BST. This annual event brings together industry players and academics to discuss robotics and discover potential partnership opportunities. The objective of this year’s event is to identify challenges and cross-cutting questions that will empower research in robotics for infrastructures, homes, and health.

Agenda

13:00 – 13:15  Welcome and Introductory address

• 13:00 – 13:05 Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Speaker of the Imperial Robotics Forum
• 13:05 – 13:10  Nick Jennings, Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise
• 13:10 – 13:15   Ana Cruz Ruiz, Imperial Robotics Forum Manager

13:15 – 14:15  Industry Pitches 

• 13:15 – 13:20 Rich Walker, Shadow Robot Company
• 13:20 – 13:25 Graham Deacon, Ocado
• 13:25 – 13:30 Patricia Parlevliet, Airbus
• 13:30 – 13:35 Stephen Wang, Huawei
• 13:35 – 13:40 Max Erick Busse-Grawitz, Maxon
• 13:40 – 13:45 Thomas Neff, KUKA
• 13:45 – 13:50 Benjamin Ploechl, Tyromotion
• 13:50 – 13:55 Alastair Darwood, Darwood IP Ltd, Inspired Ventilation Ltd, BlueSky IP
• 13:55 – 14:00 Allen Jiang, Google Health

14:15 – 14:20  Break

14:20 – 14:45  Robotics Forum – Themes Overview

• Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena (Health), Imperial College London
• Edward Johns  (Home), Imperial College London
• Mirko Kovac  (Infrastructure), Imperial College London

14:45 – 15:30  Session 1: Breakout rooms – Identifying grand challenges across robotics for homes, infrastructures, and health

15:30 – 15:40  Break

15:40 – 16:20  Distilling cross-cutting questions

16:20 – 16:30  Break

16:30 – 17:10   Session 2: Breakout rooms – Discussion of identified cross-cutting questions

17:10 – 17:30   Presentations & concluding remarks

Note: This event will be recorded.