Europe's largest robotics conference returns to Odense: Summit confirms Danish robotics status
The Danish robotics environment will get a global showcase when the European Robotics Forum in 2023 takes place in Odense. 800 guests from the international robot industry are expected to the city, hosting the event for the second time.
Universal Robots (UR) had not yet been sold for millions to American Teradyne, and other Funen robot companies such as On Robot and Mobile Industrial Robots (MIR) had not been founded at all. That was the status last time a European summit for robotics professionals took place in Odense back in 2012.
The European Robotics Forum (ERF) is now returning to Odense and Denmark with the participation of up to 800 robotics experts. The University of Southern Denmark has attracted the conference to Odense with local support from Odense Municipality's Invest in Odense, the Danish robot cluster Odense Robotics and the Danish Technological Institute, which arranged the conference in Odense in 2012.
The robot cluster in Denmark has meanwhile grown to be the largest in Northern Europe and today holds an internationally leading position within areas such as drones and mobile and collaborative robots, with more than 10,000 employees and 430 companies.
The news was unveiled on Wednesday night in Rotterdam, where the University of Twente is hosting this year's European Robotics Forum, the largest robotics conference in Europe.