Agenda

• 09:30h.

  Opening

  • University President Mr. Josep Eladi Baños, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia.
  • Joan Guanyabens, TIC Salut Social Foundation Director.
  • Xavier Farrés, Councillor for Health at Vic City Council.
  • Carolina Homar, Secretariat of Social Rights and Inclusion, Department of Social Rights and Inclusion.

• 10:00h.

  Ethics, technology and demographic challenges: care robots

  • Guillem Alenyà, researcher. Robotics & Industrila IT. CSIC – UPC.

• 10:30h.

  The Catalan robotics ecosystem

  • Carles Soler, director of Casiopea Robotics & president of educaBOT Foundation.
  • Mireia Miralles, head of robotics projects. Suara Cooperativa.

• 11:00h.

  Showroom coffee break

  • Take a coffee and network while we get to know the robots at the exhibition in the cloister space.

• 12:00h.

  Elevator pitches: the exhibition robots presented by their developers

  • TEMI Robot: Jordi Cabau, CTO. Group Saltó.
  • ROBOCAT Robot: Joel Garcia, head of R+D projects. PAL Robotics.
  • BUDDY Robot: Xavier Oriol Granado, Psicology Professor. Universitat de Girona.
  • AWAKE Robot: Dionís Guzmán, CMO and cofounder. Robopedics.
  • NYAM Robot: Cristian Barrue, researcher. Robotics & Industrila IT. CSIC – UPC.
  • JANA Robot: Magí Dalmau, head of Cognitive Robotics group. Eurecat.
  • ABLE Exoskeleton: Alfons Carnicero, CEO and cofounder. Able Human Motion.

• 13:10h.

  Opinion matters: your feedback in one click

  • Patricia Illa, research technician. ESR-Research.

• 13:20h.

  Key drivers for the adoption of assistive robotics

  • Alejandra de la Cruz, innovation project manager. Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili.
  • Maite Garolera, head of Brain, Cognition and Behavior research group. Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa.
  • Marc Fortes, director of the Health School for patients and caregivers. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.
  • Bartomeu Ayala, director of health and social care innovation. Althaia.
  • Ricard Hernández, exoesqueleton PoC. Institut Guttmann.
  • Dolores Gómez, TEMI user.

• 14:00h.

  Showroom lunch break

  • Lunch break and networking while we get to know the robots at the exhibition in the cloister space.

• 15:30h.

  Wrap-up and conclusions of the participatory activity

  • Patricia Illa, research technician. ESR-Research.
  • Francesc López, director of the TIC Salut i Social Chair.