European Robotics Week 2024: ‘Robotics and Artificial Intelligence’ Day
- The Central Event for the 14th edition of the European Robotics Week, ERW2024, promoted by the euRobotics association will be held in Zaragoza, at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón, ITA, in collaboration with the Spanish Robotics Technology Platform, HispaRob.
- The euRobotics event, which will take place on the 13th and 14th of November, will include both institutional events, with representatives from government, industry, research centres and academia, and activities open to the general public, with the aim of bringing robotics closer to society as a whole.
- In addition, HispaRob will hold its Day on Friday 15th of November, which will feature talks, round tables, free practical workshops and much more.
HispaRob, through its Educational Robotics Thematic Group, coordinates and promotes in Spain the celebration of the European Robotics Week, ERW, which is held at the initiative of the European robotics association euRobotics.
The ERW2024 edition will take place from the 15th to the 24th of November 2024. Every year, activities are organised and held all over Europe, which can be found on the ERW map on the official euRobotics website.
In the context of this major European event, the group organises every year the ERW Day, its most important meeting with companies and professionals from the sector, administrations and the teaching community, where relevant aspects of education in robotics, Artificial Intelligence, computational thinking and STEAM are discussed and shared.
In its next edition, ERW2024, this initiative will focus on robotics, ethics and Artificial Intelligence, the role of education in training students for the new technological professions of the future, and the role of women and girls in STEAM disciplines, among others.
At this crucial moment, we are working on the organisation of the ERW2024 Conference ‘Robotics and Artificial Intelligence’, which thanks to the collaboration with the Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (ITA) will be held at its facilities on Friday 15th of November 2024, from 9:00 to 20:00.
The conference will open with an institutional welcome ceremony, which will be followed by the inaugural conference by Concha Monje, researcher specialising in robotics and Professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid, who will give a talk on the challenges and advances in Soft Robotics.
In addition, during this edition we will hold three round tables, of which we leave you a preview of the theme and soon we will be able to give you more details:
- Creativity as an excuse to awaken scientific-technological vocations
- The responsibility of the media in the popularisation of science and technology
- From the Classroom to Industry
We will also have a space in different areas of the Technological Institute, where practical workshops will be offered simultaneously by the entities of the Educational Robotics Group of HispaRob, which will be accompanied by good practices carried out in the classroom by leading teachers in robotics and STEAM.
The conference will close with a small ceremony where the educational robotics Quality Seal will be awarded to the entities that have been awarded this year.
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In addition, HispaRob is preparing more activities where platform members and thematic groups will actively participate in the day, with robotics as the central theme. That is why we will have the main companies, technology centres and institutes and universities with which the association is associated. We recommend that you keep an eye on our dissemination channels, where we will soon be announcing all the latest news.
Following our main event and framed within this European Robotics Week, HispaRob will participate for the third consecutive year in the next edition of SIMO Education, to be held from 19 to 21 November at the IFEMA – Madrid.
HispaRob’s Educational Robotics Group will have a stand located in Hall 5 of the fair, where workshops will be held in the mornings and afternoons and, in addition, there will be a programme of conferences yet to be determined.
In addition to the activities of the ERW2024 Day, we remind you that the European Robotics Week is a broad initiative, in which there are other ways to participate.
Any entity or person interested in the dissemination of robotics (companies, universities, associations, technology centres, teachers, etc.) can organise an activity and register it on the euRobotics map using the form provided. It can be a visit to a technology company, a classroom activity, a street action, presentations related to robotics in all its fields, etc.
For possible inspiration, HispaRob has prepared a calendar with thematic proposals for each day, which will be available for consultation very soon.
A clear example of the multidisciplinary nature of these activities is the event that will take place on the 25th of September at the University Hospital of Getafe, organised by the Tekniker and HispaRob’s medical robotics and assistance group under the name ‘Robotic Technologies for Health’. During the conference, the vision, knowledge and technology of universities, technology centres, companies and other players in the healthcare ecosystem on robotics, rehabilitation sciences, movement sciences, social sciences, ageing, care and e-health (ICT) will be shared through various round tables to provide the Spanish fabric with an interdisciplinary research and development ecosystem that is competitive at European level.
ERW2024 is also possible thanks to the support of ViewSonic, Iberdrola, Edelvives and PAL Robotics who have sponsored our event.
