The European robotics group will descend upon Birmingham’s International Convention Centre (ICC) in March 2027 for the annual European Robotics Forum (ERF).
The occasion brings collectively over 1,000 analysis and trade consultants from throughout the continent to share concepts, create new connections and have a good time the most effective of robotics, one of the vital applied sciences that may form the way forward for society for generations to come.
Since it first started in 2010, ERF has been hosted in many nice cities and industrial powerhouse areas throughout Europe.
Hosting ERF in Birmingham for the primary time gives a possibility to anchor conversations about the way forward for robotics inside a area the place innovation shouldn’t be summary however utilized day by day: in factories, laboratories, and innovation centres deploying subsequent technology synthetic intelligence, automation and robotics at scale.
ERF in Birmingham will likely be organised and hosted by The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) a West Midlands-based analysis and know-how organisation, and the University of Birmingham, in partnership with euRobotics, the European robotics affiliation.
Birmingham is a becoming setting for an occasion of this type.
The metropolis attracts on its area’s industrial heritage with roots that attain again to the very delivery of the economic revolution, a proud historical past of producing and precision engineering, a long-established and internationally acclaimed automotive sector, a fantastic custom of analysis and innovation, with universities providing globally-recognised tutorial excellence, and a big, expert, numerous inhabitants.
Karol Janik, ERF2027 common chair and robotics & automation know-how supervisor at MTC, mentioned: “For greater than two centuries, the West Midlands has stood as one in every of Europe’s most enduring centres of commercial ingenuity.
“From the steam engine to at this time’s breakthroughs in robotics, AI, superior manufacturing, clear power or healthcare, this area has repeatedly formed the technological course of the continent.
“Birmingham and the broader West Midlands stay one in every of its most revolutionary industrial heartlands – a dense ecosystem of worldwide producers, world main analysis institutes, dynamic automation and robotics corporations, and a brand new technology of formidable entrepreneurs.
“Add to this a city with a rich and varied cultural offer spanning classic and contemporary, clubs to concert halls, gigs to galleries and from theatres to Think Tank, Birmingham’s famously interactive museum of science, and the considerable attractions of the UK’s ‘second city’ are obvious.”
Interested events are inspired to contact the organising crew to be taught extra about sponsorship and exhibition packages and safe their place at ERF 2027.