Celebrating the company’s 90 years of innovation and underlining OMRON’s commitment to inspire the youth about innovative technologies, OMRON donated 10,000 euros to the i-bots robotics organization. Aiming to support and shape the future of manufacturing, the company welcomed and had a talk with some of the kids at their stand in Hannover Messe 2023.
The company was also delighted to have Lower Saxony's Economics Minister, Olaf Lies, Regional Councilor of Hannover and Head of the Department of Economics, Transport and Education, Ulf-Birger Franz, as well as VDMA’s Educational Policy Officer, Stefan Grötzschel, visit their booth.
The i-bots are a talented group of around 60 students, aged 8-19, from Roberta RegioZentrum Hannover, focused on constructing and programming various robot systems. The i-bots teams experiment with robotics at the prestigious Leibniz Universität Hannover and have won many international robotics competitions, including the World Championship for RoboCup Junior. i-bots provides an opportunity for students to develop their robotics skills, preparing them for future careers.
Together with i-bots and VDMA, OMRON is looking into the future of industry and automation in Germany, and how associations and companies in Germany can work more closely and effectively together to offer children and young people a better and more inspiring environment in modern industry, also to respond to the looming labour shortage of experts in the sector.
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