IERA06

IFR/IEEE RAS Industry Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Convention Hall No.1, 2/F,
Beijing International Convention Center
Beijing, China

In conjunction with IROS 2006 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

This joint forum, organized by IFR and RAS/IEEE, consists of:

• IFR/IEEE Invention & Entrepreneurship Award and Plenary lectures
• Entrepreneurship Workshop

The award honors those achievements of people with clear objectives of promoting invention and entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation. Plenary lectures will cover the details of the motivation behind the honored inventors, the way the original idea is formulated, the approach and process taken in order to move an initial idea to commercial products or to business opportunities, as well as lessons learned from the experience.

The workshop provides researchers and entrepreneurs with an opportunity to learn a full cycle of developing business from ideas and technologies to the market. It covers R&D strategies and methodologies, business planning, commercialization, manufacturing, and marketing.

Program

The winners are:
1. KUKA Roboter, Augsburg, Germany: CAFIR - Flexible and Scalable Collision Avoidance for Industrial Robots based on Complex Geometric Models (presented by Rainer Bischoff)

2. OCRobotics, Bristol, United Kingdom: Reaching the Unreachable (presented by Rob Buckingham)

3. Cyberbotics Ltd., Preverehges, Switzerland: Webots(TM)5 (presented by Olivier Michel)

Location of IERA 2006: Beijing International Convention Center

(Left) Rainer Bischoff (KUKA Roboter) and IERA 2006 Award Plaque. (Right) Winner Check and Award Plaque handover to Rainer Bischoff (KUKA Roboter) by Richard A. Volz (President IEEE Robotics and Automation Society)

Links

KUKA
ocrobotics
cyberbotics
CAFIR

Roadmap

Industrial Activities Roadmap

The Industrial Activies Board within the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society has a focus on road maps, which are the long term plans for research, products and applications.

Participation from RAS members are welcome and encouraged to participate. 

IERA07

IEEE/IFR 2007 Joint Industry Forum on Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation

Tuesday, April 10, 2007, Rome, Italy (in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)

Current status

For the 2007 award, there were 22 impressive applications submitted! It will be very difficult to decide. The evaluation process was very demanding due to the fact that most of the applications were of really high quality, and an extra evaluation of close-to-final applications was carried out. Hence, the notification of finalists was delayed until the 20:th of February. Six finalists were selected, and they will present their innovations at the IERA07 forum/workshop.

Mission

This Joint Forum will highlight and honor the achievements of these people with the clear objective of promoting innovation andentrepreneurship in our society. Innovators who explore original, value-creating ideas and entrepreneurs who propel those ideas into world-class products and services are key to the continuing success of robotics and automation today.

The forum is conducted jointly with IFR and includes two main parts:

• IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award with Plenary Lectures
  
  Lectures will cover the details of the Motivation behind the said Innovation, the way the Original Idea is formulated, the Approach and Process taken in order to move an initial idea to Commercial Products or to Business Opportunities, as well as Lessons learned from the experience

• 2007 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award Application/Nomination Form
• 3rd IEEE/IFR Joint Workshop on Invention and Entrepreneurship
  The workshop is conducted by industry and business people to help the inventors better understand the process of transforming an idea into a commercial product.

IFR Forum

IERA Forums

2012 IERA Call for Nominations/Applications

The Call for nominations to the 2012 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award is out.  The presentation will be at the 2012 IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation on 23 May 2012 in Munich, Germany. The IERA Forum will be hosted by the International Federation of Robotics and held in conjunction with the Automatica Trade Show in Munich.

2011 IERA Call for Nominations/Applications

The Call for nominations to the 2011 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award is out.  The presentation will be at the 2011 IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation on 9 May 2011 in Shanghai China. The IERA Forum  will be hosted by the IEEE  Robotics and Automation Society  and held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

2010 IERA

The new Call for nominations to the next IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award is out.  The presentation will be at the 2010 IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation on 8 June 2010 in Munich. The IERA Forum  will be hosted by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR)  and held in conjunction with the IFR's  41st International Symposium on Robotics and the 6th German Conference on Robotics.  The announcement together with our partner organisation IFR reads:

IERA Award 2010 - Call for Applications IEEE/IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Award

The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) jointly sponsor the Invention and Entrepreneurship Award. The purpose of this award is to highlight and honor the achievements of the inventors with value creating ideas and entrepreneurs who propel those ideas into world-class products. At the same time the joint disposition of the award underlines the determination of both organizations to promote stronger collaboration between robotics science and robotics industry.

Up to one award will be given annually to the individual(s) whose entrepreneurial efforts have taken an earlier conceptual innovation and evolved it into a commercialized product. The winner(s) are expected to present the underlying principles of the concept, how they transformed this into the product, and demonstrate the commercial product realized from the concept. Just a prototype product or proof of concept is not acceptable.

The award consists of a plaque and a $2,000 honorarium. In case there are multiple winners, each recipient will receive a plaque and the honorarium will be equally split between the recipients.

Nominees will be solicited through an award sub-committee and in response to a general call for nominees. The Call for Applications containing detailed information can be downloaded as pdf (38 kb).

The deadline for submitting applications is 31 March 2010.

List of previous recipients

• IERA 09, Kobe: The call IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award and the results.
• IERA 08, Munich
  IERA08 Call for Participation
  IERA08 Final Program
• IERA07
• IERA06
• IERA05

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