Spaxels Research Initiative

What started last year at the Ars Electronica Festival has grown to activities with several partners that led to a variety of perspectives on Swarms. SwarmOS has been developed from a concept to a pre-alpha now used by the NTT R&D-Group for its research and development.

Audience at the Spaxels Research Initiative Presentations, Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl

Besides the ongoing existing partnerships, new members have joined the Spaxels Research Initiative (SRI): We’re happy to welcome the world leader in production of firefighter equipment, the Austrian company Rosenbauer, to the SRI and also welcome MAXON, renowned world-wide for their flagship product Cinema4D. Both new and existing collaborators will talk about their interests and approaches.

4 PM – 4:30 PM Hiroshi Chigira (JP), Research Engineer at NTT Service Evolution Lab, „Swarm Arena“
4:30 PM – 5 PM Alexander Ronacher (AT), Head of Innovation Technology and Knowledge Management, Rosenbauer International AG, “ Swarm intelligence in future civil protection”
5 PM – 5:30 PM Andres Hildebrandt (DE), Vice Director Marketing, Maxon, und Patrick Berger (AT), Senior Researcher, Ars Electronica Futurelab “Animating swarms of real world vehicles (in collaboration with MAXON) – Vehicle Behaviour, Dynamics and Simulation”
5:30 PM – 6 PM Dave Green (GB), Technical Director, Flying Screens „Making of LUCID – The world first drone screen performance.“
6 PM – 6:30 PM Peter Holzkorn (AT), Key Researcher & Artist, Ars Electronica Futurelab „Scaling autonomous vehicle missions with SwarmOS“

Moderation: Horst Hörtner (AT), Senior Director Ars Electronica Futurelab

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