From 23 to 29 November the European Robotics Week is celebrated, which in this 5th edition will be hosted by Bristol. The theme on which the 400 events of the week will focus is “Robots and Society”.
This Monday 23 has started in Bristol the European Robotics Week (ERW), whose central theme will be “Robots and Society«. The event makes available to the general public about 500 activities related to robotics, highlighting the growing importance it is acquiring in many areas.
One of the objectives of the European Robotics Week is to awaken the technological vocation in students of all ages to direct them towards careers related to the fields STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Uwe Haass, Acting Secretary of the event, points out that ” European Robotics Week is the stage for researchers and the robotics industry arouse interest in this discipline around Europe.” That is why the doors are opened to the public, with a remarkable Spanish presence in about 100 of the events.
To arouse that interest in the next”robotic” generations a series of competitions and challenges have been organized at European level, such as the “R2T2“, in which about 100 children from six countries must operate a robot in scenarios similar to those seen in the recently released (and highly recommended) film Mars. Or the challenge launched from Portugal in which 14 teams from six countries will present to the public the robots for work in factories and domestic. For its part, Germany, together with Lego, proposes a pseudo-sports competition in which children will work in robots-trash whose functions will be: collect, classify and reuse garbage.
As it could not be otherwise, in this event there will also be space for discussion and debate around robotics and its impact on all areas of society. In fact, looking at the map of the industry robotics european we see that while Finland is working on robots to provide greater independence to people with special needs, Portugal focuses its efforts on designing robots miners, Spain explores the opportunities and dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence and Germany examines the implications of robots that work side by side with humans.
Images: EU-Robotics
