Schunk Analyses the new potentials of the robotics of service

Of 29 February to 1 March of the 2012, experts of all the world gathered to celebrate the 5th Expert Days on Service Robotics in Schunk, specialist in technicians of subjection and systems of hold. This event is the world-wide platform of greater communication for the robotics of service applied. Under the lemma ‘Service Robotics – Quo vadis?' 18 pertinent orators of 10 countries presented conferences oriented of practical form to a global vision of the human interaction-robot. The approach of the interdisciplinary cooperation were subjects like ‘The perception and the learning', ‘Development of Markets', ‘Robots and Design of Components', as well as ‘Robots and human'.

The importance of the symposium organised by the committed familiar company Schunk reflects very well in the listing of the orators: beginning by Steve Cousins, president and CEO of the American Association Willow Garage, until the professor Roland Siegwart of the ETH in Zúrich. Conferences by part of Bosch, Siemens, Philips and of the European Commission have cleared that the robotics of service used in the commercial and domestic sector has turned into an important economic factor, that uses commercially by an increasing number of companies.