Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.69
May 25, 2023
…Shea followed in the footsteps of Universal Robots co-founder Esben Østergaard, who was given the Engelberger Award in 2018 in the Technology category. The Application category recognizes individuals or organizations that have made a significant contribution to the development of robotics technology and its practical application. Nelson Shea won the award for her outstanding work related to robotics safety across the world. She has been a central figure in the development of industrial robot safety standards in North America and around the world, noted Universal Robots. As the convenor of the ISO (International Organization for Standards) committee, Nelson Shea led…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.33
May 12, 2023
…by the company’s co-founder and then Chief Technology Officer Esben Østergaard. He received the Engelberger Robotics Award in 2018 for his pioneering role in the cobot industry. Roberta Nelson Shea, Universal Robots' global technical compliance officer since 2016, will join Østergaard. For over 45 years, she has been one of the central figures in the development of industrial robot safety standards in North America and around the world. As the convenor of the ISO committee, Nelson Shea led the introduction of ISO/TS 15066, which is the first document that defined standardized safety requirements within human-robot collaboration. At Automate 2023, she…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.94
November 10, 2022
…three researchers at the University of Southern Denmark - Esben Østergaard, Kasper Støy, and Kristian Kassow. The trio decided they wanted to build a robot that was lighter and easy to use than traditional automation. Since then, Universal Robots has developed a range of cobot products, most recently adding the new UR20 to its portfolio. The Odense, Denmark-based company has sold more than 50,000 cobots worldwide. As Universal Robots has thrived, so too has the Danish robotics scene, centered around Odense, a city of 200,000 people. The number of people employed by Danish robotics companies is forecast to reach 23,000…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.69
December 08, 2021
…the impact on emerging technologies and startups,” said Dr. Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard, founder of Universal Robots and CEO of REInvest Robotics. “It's not the future we want.” “GDPR [the EU Global Data Protection Regulation] did a good job in limiting what data can be collected and how big corporations can use that data,” he told Robotics 24/7. “However, governments didn't foresee the impacts. In one catastrophic case in medical research, one large EU project collected data, but the next couldn't access it and was even fined.” “All the large data-driven companies—Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others—are based in the U.S. and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 36.58
May 31, 2018
The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) has announced Esben Østergaard as the recipient of the Engelberger Robotics Award. The Engelberger Awards Dinner and Ceremony will be held at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Germany as part of Automatica and the International Symposium on Robotics. President of RIA, Jeff Burnstein, calls the Universal Robots CTO a visionary in defining a new category of robotics. “His work in the field of collaborative robot applications has allowed robots to enter previously unthinkable sectors in just about every industry,” says Burnstein. “Esben Østergaard’s emphasis on robots that work side-by-side…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.55
January 01, 2018
…program for packaging. CTO and co-founder of Universal Robots, Esben Østergaard, explains that it is unusual in the industry to make robot training curriculum of this caliber available for free: “This is a long-term investment for us. We want to raise the robot literacy and the reason for speeding up the entry of cobots is not only to optimize production here and now,” says Esben Østergaard. “We are facing a looming skills gap in the manufacturing industry that we need to bridge by all means possible. Facilitating knowledge creation and access to our cobots is an important step in that…
