Big Data Disruptions. How Industrie 4.0 will Impact Industrial Robotics

In the presentation BIG DATA DISRUPTIONS: HOW INDUSTRIE 4.0 WILL IMPACT INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS Thomas Bauernhansl explains why robots will be the future tool for personalized production. He presents the Robotics IT-chain and the background of Industrie 4.0 as "Everything as a Service". The IPA-developed safe data platform Virtual Fort Knox is introduced and two examples are given with asking the questions: "What if Bin-picking came out of the Cloud?" and "What if there was a AGV Cloud Navigation?" He claims that open source is an enabler in industrial robotics and introduces ROS as an ecosystem for robotic applications, by means of the example: URCaps. Bauernhansl believes that the synergetic link between physical and virtual platforms is the core for service-oriented business models using the example of Google Project Ara. His main argument: XaaS ? Everything as a Service Integrated service-orientation leads to new value-adding structures and names the base: processing power and connectivity.