2024年南开大学人工智能与机器人国际学术讲坛

Nankai University International E-Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

（第48讲）

报告时间：2024年6月20日上午9：30-11:00

报告地点：人工智能学院北楼102

报告人：陈义明  教授

专家单位：新加坡南洋理工大学

报告题目：A Robotics Engineer’s Journey: from Academia to Entrepreneurship

报告摘要：

   Robotics is Deep Tech involving integration of hardware and software. In this talk, I will share my experience from being an academic faculty member with a 30-year robotics academic R&D career to a robotics entrepreneur with two university spun-off robotics companies: Transforma Robotics for the built environment sector and Hand Plus Robot for the logistics sector. The experiences include team building, technology management, R&D and market directions, fund raising, as well as scaling-up. I will also share some of my thoughts and view on the future development of robotics industry and integration of AI & Robotics from practitioner perspective, which is a drastically different one from academic perspective.

报告人简介：

   Prof I-Ming Chen received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1986, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 1989 and 1994 respectively. He is currently Full Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Co-Director of Centre for Advanced Robotic Technology and Innovation (CARTIN) in NTU, Technical Advisor to National Robotics Research Programme Office, Singapore, and Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA). He was Editor-in-chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics from 2020 to 2022, and Director of Robotics Research Centre (NTU) from 2013 to 2017. Professor Chen is Fellow of Singapore Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ASME, General Chairman of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017) in Singapore. His research interests are in logistics and construction robots, wearable devices, human-robot interaction, and industrial automation. He founded Transforma Robotics Pte Ltd developing robots for construction industry and Hand Plus Robotics Pte Ltd developing robotics and AI solutions for logistics and manufacturing industry.