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Proposal for a "Supplementary Board
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Fatronik and activities in
robotics General info of Fatronik : www.fatronik.com Fatronik is a project shared by persons, who under the figure of a
private non-profit organisation, is dedicated to generating and assimilating
knowledge, transforming it into competitive business innovations, with
technology transfer to existing companies or promoting the creation of new
companies. Our objective is the generation of wealth, well being and
satisfaction for society, customers and the people in our organisation. Fatronik is an investigation centre, specialised in the generation of
intelligent devices that require the integration of different technologies:
mechanics, control, electronics and information technologies, and a profound
knowledge of manufacturing technologies. Historically, Fatronik has been
applying this knowledge to respond to the technological needs or several
industrial sectors, helping to increase their efficiency and competitivity. However, since 2003 it has committed
itself to applying technology in the social sphere as well. We are attempting
to improve the quality of life of people, centring ourselves mainly on the
elderly and disabled. Fatronik's objective is clear: To
transform knowledge into business. To this end, we have developed innovative
relationship models with our customers that guarantee maximum profitability
and are translated into innovative products,
processes and services that improve their degree of competitiveness.
Additionally see specially the last slide on Robotics in Fatronik of the
presentation included in the zip file. Fatronik is member of the Technological Coorporation
Tecnalia : TECNALIA is a private and
independent Technological Corporation, drawing from the Basque technological
environment, with an international reference and made up of the Azti, European Software Institute (ESI), Inasmet, Labein, Neiker, Robotiker and,
henceforth, the FATRONIK Technological Centres. www.tecnalia.info Robotics in Fatronik : From its experience originated in machine tools, Fatronik has
complemented its knowledge, offering a wider conception of machines and
handlers for different applications. Under the generic name of robotics,
Fatronik gathers its proven capacity to devise and put into operation various
programmable, reconfigurable and controllable devices with different levels
of intelligence and autonomy. Such a general field of application has two facets :
One industrial facet with examples in manufacturing, assembly, handling,
inspection, analysis, bonding, cleaning, etc. and application in several
industrial sectors. And another, more novel, service facet, with the
development of solutions for use on behalf of people in tasks such as
personal assistance, training or assistance. Robotics, developed over decades, has centred these facets in the
development of very standard solutions, aimed at mass consumption and more
particularly at automation. However, technological development in the world
is allowing for a new resurgence of robotics with new, more specific
solutions, with different features and aimed at a larger number of
applications. It is here where the business opportunities are and where
Fatronik is centring its work.
Fatronik in EUROP and EURON : Fatronik is member of
EURON and of EUROP and is working in the working group of Service Robotics. Industrial view on Robotics : Fatronik has a strong
industrial view of what is needed plus the contacts behind this. We are
working in Service Robots for different scenarios : construction (for Acciona www.acciona.es);
aeronautics (for AIRBUS-spain; and with EADS in
Paris); remote handling in nuclear environments (with Tecnatom
www.tecnatom.es); manufacturing (Antolin www.grupoantolin.com;
MTorres www.mtorres.es;
Correa www.correaanayak.es; ...);
.... Robot Business Opportunities 2008 : We have organised in January 2008 an Event
on Robot Business Opportunities (see programme). European Projects : We are involved in several
European projects in Robotics : Roboswarm www.roboswarm.eu; iward
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Transfer to companies : FATRONIK has developed
with the French laboratory Lirmm the quickest robot
manipulator of the World, commercialized with the name of Quattro, which was
finalist in the EURON fourth Technology Transfer Award. Furthermore, Fatronik
has signed an agreement with the American company Adept, which now has its
exploitation licence. And with the support of the
Social Work of Kutxa Fatronik has completed this
development with the creation of one spin-off, ROBOCONCEPT, which will
develop complete automation solutions for several sectors. |
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Commitment Fatronik is committed to actively lead in the
development of a more effective EU robotics research activity. In
particular, Fatronik is well placed to introduce some much
needed realities into the EU robotics research community, both technical realities and business
realities. Therefore, Fatronik is
interested in taking part and contribute in the topic "Industry cooperation" |
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Short CV of the Candidate Jon Agirre Ibarbia, graduated in 1991 at
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in
Telecommunication Engineering. He has a master on Industrial Software
Engineering (1995), at Euskal Herriko
Unibertsitatea-Universidad del País Vasco. Since
1995, Jon Agirre Ibarbia is working in FATRONIK as co-ordinator in R&D
Projects related to the application of Information & Control
Technologies: AUTOMAT (Esprit-22273), SMART (Growth-G1RD-CT-1999-00091). He
has been evaluator of R&D proposals for the Spanish R&D
administration, French National Research Agency (ANR) and for the European
Commission (FP6-IST call 4). Chair of the sub-committee on
Infrastructure (Manufacturing) of the IEEE: IES - Technical Committee on
Industrial Agents (http://www.tcia.ipb.pt). Participates in ManuFuture (European Technology Platform on Future
Manufacturing Technologies), in EUROP (European Robotics Platform), taking
part in the core group on the Strategic Research Agenda on Service Robotics
and in EURON (European Robotics Network). Technology leader in Production
Advanced Control (PAC) cluster in NoE-I*PROMS
(Innovative Production Machines and Systems) |
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Download a zip with all the presentations and the text of this
proposal EURON_PSBC_FATRONIK.zip |
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