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…footsteps of Universal Robots co-founder Esben Østergaard, who was given the Engelberger Award in 2018 in the Technology category. The Application category recognizes individuals or organizations that have made a significant contribution to the development of robotics technology and its practical application. Nelson Shea won the award for her outstanding work related to robotics safety across the world. She has…
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…and then Chief Technology Officer Esben Østergaard. He received the Engelberger Robotics Award in 2018 for his pioneering role in the cobot industry. Roberta Nelson Shea, Universal Robots' global technical compliance officer since 2016, will join Østergaard. For over 45 years, she has been one of the central figures in the development of industrial robot safety standards in North America…
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…University of Southern Denmark - Esben Østergaard, Kasper Støy, and Kristian Kassow. The trio decided they wanted to build a robot that was lighter and easy to use than traditional automation. Since then, Universal Robots has developed a range of cobot products, most recently adding the new UR20 to its portfolio. The Odense, Denmark-based company has sold more than 50,000…
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…technologies and startups,” said Dr. Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard, founder of Universal Robots and CEO of REInvest Robotics. “It's not the future we want.” “GDPR [the EU Global Data Protection Regulation] did a good job in limiting what data can be collected and how big corporations can use that data,” he told Robotics 24/7. “However, governments didn't foresee the impacts. In…
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…Industries Association (RIA) has announced Esben Østergaard as the recipient of the Engelberger Robotics Award. The Engelberger Awards Dinner and Ceremony will be held at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Germany as part of Automatica and the International Symposium on Robotics. President of RIA, Jeff Burnstein, calls the Universal Robots CTO a visionary in…
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…and co-founder of Universal Robots, Esben Østergaard, explains that it is unusual in the industry to make robot training curriculum of this caliber available for free: “This is a long-term investment for us. We want to raise the robot literacy and the reason for speeding up the entry of cobots is not only to optimize production here and now,” says…
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…CTO of Rethink Robotics and Esben Østergaard, the CTO and co-founder of Universal Robots. Representatives from other leading robotics companies such as Yaskawa Motoman, KUKA, ABB and FANUC will also be speaking. Dr. Henrik Christensen of Georgia Tech and Rich Mahoney from SRI will discuss the latest research regarding collaborative robots. Sam Bouchard, President and Co-Founder of Robotiq, will speak…
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