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Citation
(2005), "Swiss companies set up mobile robotics consortium", Industrial Robot, Vol. 32 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2005.04932cab.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Swiss companies set up mobile robotics consortium
Swiss companies set up mobile robotics consortium
Keywords: Robotics
Four Swiss companies involved in the mobile robotics sector have set up a consortium to represent them at a national and international level and thereby strengthen their ability to take advantage of the anticipated growth in the service robots market in the next 10 years.
Based in Lausanne and known as the Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium, the consortium's short-term goal is to initiate development contracts with industry in order to strengthen the impact of both members and consortium on the market. Other goals are to:
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enhance the visibility of the active members;
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appear as a Swiss industrial group offering industry a wide range of competences in mobile robotics;
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actively promote the products and services offered by the active members through a commercial representative;
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participate in future robotics standardization (ISO, IEEE; academic; political);
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support the development of a mobile robotics industry supply chain.
The four founder members are: Bluebotics (www.bluebotics.com), Cyberbotics (www.cyberbotics.com), FiveCo (www.fiveco.com) and K-Team (www.k-team.com). Their competences span the areas of R&D, automation, industrial application and embedded solutions. While active membership of the Consortium is limited to small Swiss- based companies involved in mobile robotics, passive membership is open to medium to large Swiss companies active in the mobile robotics field. National and international organizations promoting Swiss industry and/or mobile robotics can become sponsoring members.