NEDO s Approaches to Co-hosting the World Robot Summit (WRS) November 29, 2017 Kenji WASADA Robot and Artificial Intelligence Technology Department World Robot Summit Team New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
Outline of NEDO Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Budget Coordination with the government Finance Project Management Promotion of R&D (Consortium) Academia Industry Public research laboratories Budget 1,397 million USD (2017 fiscal year) 1
NEDO s Robot Development History and Future Plan 1999 H11FY 2000 H12FY 2001 H13FY 2002 H14FY 2003 H15FY 2004 H16FY 2005 H17FY 2006 H18FY 2007 H19FY 2008 H20FY 2009 H21FY 2010 H22FY 2011 H23FY 2012 H24FY 2013 H25FY 2014 H26FY 2015 H27FY 2017 2016H29FY 2017 H28FY H29FY Manufacturing Robot Installation (1.0) (JARA) Marketability Base Technology Usage Study Demonstration 2 Manufacturing & Service Robot Development (1.5) Innovative AI & Robot Technology (2.0) 2
The Road to Social Implementation of Robots World Robot Summit (2017~ ) Establishing standards to evaluate the performance of robots (2016. 6~) Human resource development Robot Service Business school (2016. 7~)
New Robot Strategy - Vision, Strategy, Action Plan - The Headquarters for Japan s Economic Revitalization (February 10, 2015) PartⅡ Action Plan: Five-year Plan Chapter1 Cross-Cutting Issues Section 8 Consideration of Robot Olympic (Provisional Name) (2) Concrete activities Source: Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet Homepage As a method to accelerate the research and development of robots and to introduce and diffuse them into the real world, that is, to proceed the social implementation, competitions, verification experiments, demonstrations, that is, the Robot Olympic (provisional name) is to be carried out. 4
The Advisory Board of the Executive Committee for World Robot Summit Chairperson Takeo Kanade U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Executive Committee Members Hiroaki Kitano Founder, the RoboCup Federation / President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. / Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Executive Committee Members Chieko Asakawa IBM Fellow / IBM Distinguished Service Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Executive Committee Members Mayumi Oda Okami (inn manageress), Kagaya Co., Ltd. Executive Committee Members Thomas Bauernhansl Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA/ Director, Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management (IFF), University of Stuttgart Executive Committee Members Gill Pratt CEO, Toyota Research Institute, Inc. / Executive Technical Advisor, Toyota Motor Corporation (former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Program Manager) Executive Committee Members Henrik Christensen Professor, Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering / Director, Institute of Contextual Robotics, University of California, San Diego Executive Committee Members Takako Suwa President, Daiya Seiki Co., LTD. Executive Committee Members Ryoji Chubachi President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Executive Committee Members Yangsheng Xu President, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Executive Committee Members Katsushi Ikeuchi Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo / Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia Executive Committee Members Naoko Yamazaki Astronaut 5
The Executive Committee Chairperson Tomomasa Sato Emeritus Professor The University of Tokyo Competition Committees Executive Committee Members Chairperson, Industrial Robotics Competition Committee Yasuyoshi Yokokohji Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University Executive Committee Members Chairperson, Service Robotics Competition Committee Hiroyuki Okada Executive Director, RoboCup Japanese National Committee Professor, Tamagawa University, College of Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Technology Executive Committee Members Chairperson, Disaster Robotics Competition Committee Satoshi Tadokoro President, International Rescue System Institute Professor, Tohoku University President, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Program Manager, Japan Cabinet Office ImPACT Program Chairperson, Junior Competition Committee Amy Eguchi RoboCup Federation, Vice President representing RoboCupJunior, Board of Trustee member/associate Professor of Education, Bloomfield College 6
Concept The World Robot Summit (WRS) is a "Challenge and Expo" that brings together Robot Excellence from around the world, to promote a world where robots and humans successfully live and work together. The WRS will feature 1) World Robot Challenge (WRC) where robots will compete with one another and 2) World Robot Expo (WRE) where the latest robotic technologies will be exhibited. Participants from all over the world will come together in one location with the aim of accelerating the R&D and practical implementation of robots, in both the personal and industrial sectors of society. 7
Overview World Robot Summit (WRS) World Robot Challenge World Robot Expo Robots will compete with one another in a total of 8 challenges in 4 categories. The latest robotic technologies and cases of applied robotics will be exhibited. Symposium / Workshop Program 8
Overview World Robot Summit 2018 TOKYO @Tokyo Big Sight October 17-21 World Robot Summit 2020 AICHI / FUKUSHIMA @Aichi International Exhibition Centre /Robot Test Field located in Fukushima Pref. August and October 2019 2018 2020 *Held alongside Japan Robot Week 2018 10/17-10/21 @Tokyo Big Sight *Held alongside RoboCup Asia-Pacific Open and Japan Robot Week 2020 (tentative) 9
Competition Categories World Robot Challenge 10
Japan s Population Shift (One Thousand People) 120,000 Median Estimate High estimate Low estimate 10,000 800 2010 Year Source) National Institute of Population and Social Security Research 11
Changes in Population Structure in Japan 12
Changes in Population Aging Rate of Japan and Other Countries 13
Present Status of Aging Social Infrastructures Source) MLIT 14
Competition Categories World Robot Challenge Major Issues to be Solved Categories Declining number of working-age population Shortage of labor & increased social security expenses 成果適用後のイメージ Industrial Robotics ものづくり分野 Ex) 製造業農林水産業 食品産業 Service Robotics Disaster preparedness & aging infrastructures Disaster Robotics Junior 15
World Robot Challenge Industrial Robotics Category The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 16
World Robot Challenge Industrial Robotics Category Needs in the Manufacturing Industry: To manage the changes in manufacturing from mass production to flexible production with various kinds and quantity Objective: To offer automated assembly process which respond to the various changing orders without focusing on logistics or picking process Expected technological Element: Full-automated teaching and jigless The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 17
World Robot Challenge Service Robotics Category The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 18
World Robot Challenge Service Robotics Category Needs in the Service Industry: To deal with a decline in working population due to aging society and to mitigate hard burden of clerks and the elderly Objective : To share parts of housework (e.g. tidy-up, cleaning) and retail works (e.g. shelf-stocking and interaction between customers and clerks) Expected technological Element: Collaborative technology between humans and robots The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 19
World Robot Challenge Disaster Robotics Category The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 20
World Robot Challenge Disaster Robotics Category Plant Disaster Prevention Challenge Inspecting or maintaining infrastructures based on set standards (e.g. opening/closing valves) Tunnel Disaster Response and Recovery Challenge Collecting information and providing emergency response in case of a tunnel disaster (e.g. life-saving and removing obstacles from tunnels) Standard Disaster Robotics Challenge Assessing standard performance levels (e.g. mobility, sensing, information collection, wireless communication, remote control onsite deployment and durability, etc.) required in disaster prevention and responses The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 21
World Robot Challenge Junior Category The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 22
World Robot Challenge Junior Category School Robot Challenge Programming the standard platform robot to complete tasks that might be useful in a school environment Home Robot Challenge Setting tasks equivalent to those in the service robotics category's partner robot challenge and making robots that complete such tasks The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 23
World Robot Expo The actual design may differ due to future changes in operational plans. 24
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Message We always welcome new comers. Would you join the World Robot Summit as Challenge competitors, sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, or visitors, in order to realize a world where robots and humans live and work together, Robotics for Happiness? We are very glad to see you again at the WRS 2018 and 2020!!
Realization of a world where robots and humans live and work together http://www.worldrobotsummit.org/ https://www.facebook.com/worldrobotsummit/ https://youtu.be/8bvf_wscu2s 28
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