BioPhorum and SILA supported the conference as a media partner and by Graeme Moody (BioPhorum), who started every section with a new “British” joke about robots.

To give you an impression I would like to share the following non-judgmental selection with you:

Alvaro Carpintero from McKinsey contributed the first session with “QC Lab of the future” followed by one highlight after the other.

Adam Wolf (PhD at Takeda) sharing future oriented ways of standardizing the digital and physical collaboration of mobile robots with lab equipment

At the conference it became very clear that pilots are running in many pharmaceutical laboratories to show the value and feasibility of mobile robotics. Torben Cichon presented the demonstrator introduced at Bayer AG, where all the components such as electronic lab notebook, lab equipment, robots, ... were brought together for the first time. Based on the results, INVITE is developing a simplified BluePrint in order to introduce such systems as easily as possible in the future.

A panel session on bridging the gaps between mobile robots and their environment
 

Status of development of a GMP-compliant cleaning robot presented by Antje Schmelzer (Boehringer Ingelheim) and Volker Miegel (United Robotics Group)

Form my personal perspective one of the clearest insights was, that in many cases we will not need a project anymore to introduce a mobile robot. In some areas, like transportation of pallets this started already, and it is obvious, that this will become standard in more and more areas of application throughout laboratories and production. The direct consequence must be and will be, that there will be automatic doors and elevators everywhere.

Charly Coulon

Head of Future Manufacturing Concepts

INVITE GmbH