During the 2nd and 3rd October 2019, RobotUnion has started the second acceleration round with the Welcome Camp event. Representatives of 20 startups , RobotUnion partners and technical mentors were present during these two days at the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) in Odense, Denmark. Companies presented their feasibility plans together with their technological and business challenges to the consortium. Ten startups with the best fit with the RobotUnion program were selected to continue to Stage 2 which includes 12 months of technical mentoring with the Technological Research centers involved in the consortium. On top of that, each startup will receive 120.00 EUR equity-free cash.
In Odense, the competing startups also had the chance to hear the Keynote Speaker Esben Østergaard, founder of REInvest Robotics and co-founder of Universal Robotics. His keynote speech The meaning of collaborative robots shared the insights on how the improvements in the robotics field have transformed the way we work, by developing robots that can be easily be programmed and used. His company opened a new innovative road to integrate robots into everyday activities, making the accomplishment of tasks easier and accessible to people working with them. Changing the paradigm from robots as machines to robots as tools to work with.
Esben Østergaard @Esben_RE is our Keynote Speaker at the 2nd Day of the Welcome Camp. Founder of REInvest Robotics / and co-founder Universal Robotics @Universal_Robot
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Below is the list of the 10 companies that were selected for the second phase of our acceleration program:
- Rigitech (Switzerland): Drone delivery to integrate supply chains through hybrid drone hardware and cloud-based logistics.
- Aether Biomedical (Poland): Zeus is a low cost-high efficacy prosthesis. This bionic limb can multiarticulate 14 grip modes.
- MX3D (Netherlands): Software development for large scale Robotic 3D metal printing.
- Rebartek (Norway): Standardized robotic cell to assemble reinforcement bar (rebar) pieces into rebar cages.
- Rovenso (Switzerland): Agile robots that perform security and safety monitoring of industrial sites.
- Automato Robotics (Israel): Robot development that works in soil/greenhouses/high tunnels to detect ripe tomatoes and harvests them.
- Cyber Surgery (Spain): Robotic assistant for spine surgery.
- Proxima Centauri (Denmark): Automation of the picking and sorting of natural casings.
- Infocode (Poland): Infocode has created Bin-e, an IoT device that sorts and compress the recyclables automatically.
- Formhand(Germany): Granulate-based vacuum grippers that can adapt to and handle objects with different shapes.
On top of that, all startups had a chance to get to know the Odense Hub ecosystem and visit some of the successful Robotics companies and talk with them:Inwatec, UAS, and Quadsat.
Selected startups kick off his first face to face meetings with the future technical mentors from VTT, PIAP, Tecnalia, DTI, and TU Delft in order to start planning the next steps for the Research and Product Development phase.
Watch what went on at the Welcome Camp in our resume video from the day here!
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