Robot technology - Intro

DTI Centre for Robot Technology

DTI Centre for Robot Technology's specialty is creating robotic solutions and knowledge on their use for the manufacturing, food, construction, agriculture, horticulture, forestry and garden industries, play and education and the health and welfare sector.

Centre for Robot Technology takes responsibility for a seamless route from the problem and the solution needed for the implementation to the actual impact of the robotics. The centre’s two main focuses are:

• To develop ideas, build and demonstrate solutions, test, measure and document the effects, and to innovate new businesses and useable products. 
• To spread new robotic knowledge to manufacturing companies, research institutes, and other business partners.

Consultancy, laboratory tests, transfer of knowledge at conferences, workshops, courses and networks are some of Centre for Robot Technology’s means of knowledge sharing. 

DTI’s Centre for Robot Technology is based in Odense, which is the Silicon Valley for robotics in Denmark. The centre employed eight people when it opened in 2008 and is expected to occupy more than 40 robot specialists by the end of 2011.

Centre for Robot Technology currently participates in more than 30 robotics projects spanning from pure research projects to prototype development of new components and systems in the main fields Manufacturing & Food Industry, Health & Welfare, Agriculture, Forestry, Gardening, Horticulture & Fishing, Energy & Climate, Architecture, Design & Intelligent Buildings and Edutainment.

The centre primarily cooperates with small and medium sized companies, SME’s, employing between 15 and 200 people.  Centre for Robot Technology has 120 industrial partners and 10 partner universities.