Events

Date & Time: 2009.11.25.-28., 10:00-17:00 (16:30 on Nov.28.)
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight

The world's biggest robotics trade show, the International Robot Exhibition (iREX 2009), will be held from 25-28 November.
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) will participate in the exhibition and introduce you our new robotic home assistant "Care-O-bot® 3" at the booth of Germany Trade and Invest.

Furthermore, our robot's experts from Germany will talk about current developments in the field of service robotics in Germany on "Current Developments in the field of Service Robotics in Germany" workshop, also hosted by Germany Trade and Invest on 26th November at the conference room No.703 (in Tokyo Bigsight).

iREX Workshop: " Current Developments in the field of Service Robotics in Germany"
Date & Time: Nov. 26th, 10:00-12:30
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight, Conference Tower, Conference Room 703

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9:45-10:00
Registration / Admittance

10:00-10:05
Welcome remarks
by Mr. Iwami ASAKAWA (Germany Trade & Invest GmbH, Japan Representative)

10:05-11:30
Current Developments in the field of Service Robotics in Germany

- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Japan
  by Dr. Lorenz GRANRATH (Fraunhofer Representative Office Japan, Representative)

- Service Robots for Daily Use: From Vision to Reality
  by Dr. Birgit GRAF (Fraunhofer IPA, Head of Domestic Service Robotics/Personal Robotics Group)

- "Modular Robotics" - Building Blocks for Service Robot Applications
  by Mr. Mike MAYER (Schunk GmbH & Co. KG, Manager Technical Sales)

- From Industrial Robots to Service Robots - A European Perspective
  by Mr. Rainer BISCHOFF (KUKA Roboter GmbH, Project Manager Cooperative Research Projects)

11:30-11:40
Closing Remarks- Information about the services of Germany Trade and Invest
by Mr. Iwami ASAKAWA (Germany Trade and Invest GmbH, Japan Representative)

11:40-12:30
Reception

Please find the exhibition invitation and the workshop application form as pdf files further down.