The Schunk Expert Days on Service Robotics (www.schunk.com) — a leading symposium for applied service robotics — will be held 27-28 February in Odense (Denmark), which has developed into a ‘hot spot’ of European service robotics in recent years.

With the motto “Towards Open Robotics”, the 11th Expert Days will offer an extensive overview of the current technology, highlight trends in service robotics and answer del-egate questions.

Representatives will include Thomas Pilz (managing partner of the German automation and specialist Pilz); Niels Jul Jacobsen (CSO of Mobile Industrial Robots, a Danish manufacturer of collaborative mobile robots); and Jamie Paik (a professor at ETH Lausanne and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab).

The topics to be covered range from human/ robot collaboration through humanoid components and cloud robotics to micro-robots and bio-robots.

The symposium is targeted at researchers and technologists, industrial companies and start-ups, as well as at humanities and social scientists, financial companies and investors.