On July 07th, after a long Corona break, a pupils workshop could take place in presence for the first time this year: The workshop was held in Bad Kreuznach where the pupils of the Gymnasium “An der Stadtmauer” had the opportunity to participate in two HRC workshops offered by the Robotix-Academy. Three scientific members of…
On Monday, June 28, 2021, the RICAIP Brain & Breakfast Discussion with ZeMA & Yaskawa kicked off shortly before 09:00. The nearly 25 participants were able to discuss in a video conference with Khansa Rekik, researcher in robotics at ZeMA, and Christopher Schneider from Yaskawa about current experiences and challenges in “Planning Human-Robot Collaboration in…
At the Digitaltag 2021 on Friday, June 18, everything was about digitization. In a livestream, the Saarland state government once again presented an extensive program as well as a virtual showcase of achievements around digitization “made in Saarland” Digitaltag Saarland 2021. In the context of this Germany-wide day of action, ZeMA was able to give…
On June 16, the East Side Fab (ESF) in cooperation with places2x, htw saar, fitt gGmbH and the HBKsaar organized this year’s maker day in Saarbrücken. The event was a full-day challenge for a robotics prototying, where new robitics prototypes as well as business models were developed in a playful way. The participants, who came…
On May 27, 2021, the defense of Ali Kanso’s doctoral thesis entitled “Methodology for the realization of a sensitive assembly task based on a handling device and intelligent sensor technology” was held at ZeMA. Due to the restrictions caused by the Corona pandemic, the event had to be held via videoconference. Mr. Kanso’s PhD thesis…
On May 20, 2021, the Robotix-Academy was present at Remetac with an exciting presentation. Prof. Matthias Vette-Steinkamp explained how used batteries of e-cars can be recycled. The battery of an e-car has a life cycle of eight years – that doesn’t seem like much when you consider how long a gasoline tank lasts. But what…
The Robotix-Academy presents demonstrators and application scenarios to students in the lecture Industrial Robotics. The Master’s program Automotive Production Engineering at htw Saar provides students with engineering and management skills in the automotive industry and offers the opportunity to apply learned study contents in a practical way with company projects. In particular, specialists and managers…
The 5th Robotix-Academy Roadshow took place online on April 29, 2021 from 9 am to 3:30 pm. The event was organized by the project partner University of Lorraine. It included presentations from the University of Lorraine, the University of Liège, the Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, and ZEMA Saarbrücken. The presentations focused on the assistance of robots in…
On March 10, Xiaomei Xu, PhD student at ZeMA and research associate at the Robotix Academy, was able to present her demonstrator “Intelligent robot system for solving dissection puzzle” at a Coffee Break. Using various machine learning methods (reinforcement learning) such as K-nearest neighbor, decision tree, or Deep Q network, the robot autonomously learns a…
On 04.02.2021 the doctoral thesis disputation titled “Agile manufacturing control for (re)fabrication systems” of Sebastian Groß took place. The PhD was carried out in a cooperation between the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (UCB) of the University of Applied Sciences Trier and the University of Luxembourg (Uni Lu), as well as financed by the Interreg V A…