Dear colleagues and friends,
We would like to first deliver our sincere gratitude to Professor Max Shen for his insightful seminar.
It is our great honor to invite Professor Ren C. Luo to deliver the next seminar today. The details of the seminar follow this message and are presented on the attached poster.
For the upcoming seminars, please visit the website: https://www.saleaders.hku.hk/. For news and announcements, you are welcome to subscribe to the seminar series through the web link.We are looking forward to seeing you.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Speaker:
Professor Ren C. Luo
Irving T. Ho Chair Professor and Life Distinguished Professor
National Taiwan University
Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Date and time: Dec 02 (Wed), 2020, 20:00 HKT (GMT+8) [Local time]
Zoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93965533071 Zoom meeting ID: 939 6553 3071
Seminar title:
AIoT and Robotics Driving Paradigm Shift of Intelligent Manufacturing Automation
Abstract:
As the recent technology evolving, in which Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics, Intelligent Manufacturing and Digital Economy are included. Due to facing aging society, the industry encountered lack of skilled labors and increased /salary wages, the need of AI and IoT (AIoT) enhanced autonomous mobile robot (AMR), autonomous mobile industrial robot (AMIR) and manufacturing automation become obvious. Amazon, Google and Microsoft are investing in AIoT and intelligent robotics technology. Others are likely to follow, further stimulate investment and innovation.
AI0T becomes important core technological soft power which have a wide spectrum of applications including warehousing and logistic systems, robot integrated manufacturing automation, industrial cyber-physical systems (iCPS). etc. The aforementioned issues, challenges and opportunities will be the focus of this presentation including exemplary best practices and research results with video demo at our NTU International Center of Excellence on Intelligent Robotics and Automation Research.
Speaker bio:
Prof. Ren C. Luo, IEEE and IET Fellow, received Dipl-Ing. and Dr.-Ing in EE from the Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany. He served as Irving T. Ho Chair Professor and Life Distinguished Professor of National Taiwan University. He served two-terms as President and Dean of Engineering of National Chung Cheng University, one of the major universities in Taiwan, and Founding President of Robotics Society of Taiwan. He was President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
Prof. Luo was Toshiba Chair Professor in the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was an assistant, tenured associate and Full Professor of Department of ECE at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. He was Chief Technology Officer of ASUS Inc. the world 2nd largest PC manufacturer and served as Chief Technology Officer of FFG Inc. the world 3rd largest machine tool manufacturer.
------------------------------
Yong-Hong Kuo
Assistant Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
------------------------------