#3 Robotics Networking Event, Nov 16th by STIQ "TLA Robotics"

17 de noviembre, 2022

STIQ Ltd (a publisher of free-to-download robotics market reports) organised it's third #3 in-person free robotics networking event on November 16th, 2022 hosted at Shoosmiths inspiring offices in central London.

The Audience

Nearly 100 people attended the event from around the UK and abroad.

Companies in attendance included well known names, such as Airbus, Arrival, Asda, BT, Covariant, Deepmind, Dyson, Flexqube, Gillespie Manners, Goldman Sachs, Legal & General Investments, maxon, Ocado, Shoosmiths, Softbank Robotics, Tesco, and QinetiQ just to mention a few. In addition there were multiple startups & scaleups, postgraduate students and other professionals.

This event was kindly sponsored by Shoosmiths, maxon UKI and Gillespie Manners.

The Presentations

There were 8 presentations from startups and sponsors:

TLA Robotics

maxon

Ronak Samani from maxon with an insightful presentation on brushless motors used in robots.

maxon

SLAMcore

Owen Nicholson from SLAMcore talked about their views on robot localisation including SLAM.

Fox Robotics

Alejandra Acevedo presented their view of the future of farm logistics.

Fox Robotics

Automated Architecture

Ivo Tedbury talked about the construction industry and highlighted some of the supply chain problems involved in adding robots to that particular industry. He also presented their modular construction panels

Image courtesy of Shahira Gul

Hausbots

Jack Cornes explained their non-magnetic inspection robot system for concrete/rough surfaces.

Animal Dynamics

Jillian Currie presented their company and their unique drone systems. There was also a display by Animal Dynamics for attendees to view the canopy and the real-size robot/drone body.

United Robots

Dariusz Mankowski talked about their vision for a connected network of robots alongside their delivery robot.

QMUL (Queen Mary University London)

Lorenzo Jamone of QMUL had the unenviable task of presenting just when the pizzas arrived and everyone started smelling the food. Lorenzo's presentation was very entertaining and he talked about the research topics currently running at QMUL, including some of their work with micro sensors.

UPCOMING STIQ + TLA ROBOTICS Events

The next STIQ robotics networking event will be held on February 8th, again hosted by Shoosmiths, a stones throw from St Pauls Cathedral.

ATTEND / PRESENT / SPONSOR ?

If you want to attend, present your startup or sponsor an event - do reach out to us on tla.robotics@gmail.com (yes, we do check this and we do get ALL the emails - might take a day or two to respond occasionally, but we DO respond).

You can also follow TLA Robotics on LinkedIn page or join our email list at www.tlarobotics.com

Note that STIQ has secured FOUR more events to be hosted at Shoosmiths in 2023! If you cannot make some of them, there will be more.

February 8th
May 9th
August 9th
November 8th

More Images

"The three maxoneers" - big thanks to the team for sponsoring the event!
Image courtesy of Shahira Gul

STIQ's own Tom Andersson pointing in the air talking about the pizzas and closing the presentation part. On to the networking!
Image courtesy of Shahira Gul

The audience - pretty full, but we could have squeezed in a few more... next time!

From the back of the venue.
Image courtesy of Philip English

The view from the pub for post-Robotics Networking Event drinks (don't forget to join us for a drink next time). Yes, that's St Pauls Cathedral. The pub is about 100m walk from Shoosmiths. To join - simply ask Tom for details and wait for the event to close.

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