1.     HKIE - Manufacturing, Industrial & Systems Division

Co-organizer

2.     Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

Support Organizations

3.     Department of Science, The Open University of Hong Kong

Objective:

The outbreak of COVID-19 causes the adoptions of new social wellness requirements, say keeping more than 1.5m social distances, decrease face to face communications, etc. to avoid the spread of virus. Some hotels in Hong Kong have been reserved as quarantine hotels for the 14-day quarantine for the travelers arriving in Hong Kong from countries outside China. Meanwhile, there are increasingly COVID-19 diagnosed are sent to hospitals. It is very sensitive and dangerous for the peoples whom are the service providers or nurses would be getting in touch with the suspects/diagnosed. Autonomous Deliver robotic system offered by Novelte Robotics Limited which equipped with multi-sensor and positioning and navigation technology is able to provide services in deliver lots of medicines, meals, and other supplies to patients in the hospital to reduce the burden on medical staff. Mr. Albert Lam and Thomas Chan will share with us the challenges in deploying the robotic systems in local hospitals and commercial living areas.

Meanwhile, Ir Dr Ritz Lau studies and has made his Follow-Me Prototype Robot which it is potentially helping the industries in warehouses, offices and elderly centers, etc. in minimizing the contact among the staff, while alleviating their workload and enhancing their work efficiency.

Besides, Ir Dr Howard Cheung would like to share with us a few of Industry 4.0-enabled solution prototypes for COVID-19 and other industrial applications from Department of Industrial and Manufacturing systems Engineering in The University of Hong Kong.

 Speaker lists:

1.     Mr. Albert Lam / Mr. Thomas Chan, CMO/CTO  Novelte Robotics Limited

“The Autonomous Delivery Service Robotic Applications in Hong Kong hospitals and commercial living areas.”

2.     Ir Dr Ritz Lau, Managing Director, Standbot Robotics Limited

 “The Innovative New Methodologies for the Follow-Me Robotic and its Potential Applications in Hong Kong, China and overseas.”

3.     Ir Dr Howard Cheung, Lecturer, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

“Industry 4.0-enabled solution prototypes for COVID-19 and Other Industrial Applications”

Language: Cantonese supplement with English terminology

Registration & Enquiries 

This webinar is free of charge but prior registration is required.  The number of participants is limited to 200 and applications will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. 

For details and registration, please visit the following website: Registration Link  The deadline for registration is 15 March 2021.  Successful applicants will be notified by email on or before 20 March 2021.

 For enquiries, please contact Ir Dr Jackson Tang via email: jacksoncstang@yahoo.com.hk or hh.cheung@hku.hk.

The outbreak of COVID-19 causes the adoptions of new social wellness requirements, say keeping more than 1.5m social distances, reducing face to face communications, etc. to avoid virus spreading. The application of the Autonomous/Follow-Me Robotics, and reusable smart mask could be potential solutions in reducing the burden on medical staffs and citizens.

The webinar was held successfully in hybrid mode on 20th March 2021 (Saturday), 09:30am – 11:30am via Zoom. Three speakers in this technical webinar had shared their thoughts and experiences which adopt smart technologies driven approaches to tackle the effects caused by this pandemic outbreak. Mr. Albert Lam and Thomas Chan are the founders of Novelte Robotics Limited and shared with us the challenges and the successful cases in deploying the autonomous robotic systems in local hospitals for delivering medical supplies and documents, and also the in-door disinfecting robotics in commercial areas. Ir Dr Ritz Lau is the founder of Standbot Robotics Limited and he invented his own follow-me robot by using Ultra-Wideband positioning technologies. The advantages are low power consumption, good positioning accuracy, and less interference from obstacle. The said technology can also be applied by measuring the safety social distances between persons. Ir Dr Howard Cheung is a Lecturer from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He leads his research team to develop an automatic guided in-door virus disinfecting robot by using O3.He also demonstrated a  reusable self dis-infected mask which was developed by his research team.

During the panel discussion section, many audiences raised out the points that the applications of new robotic technologies will be widely used in many different areas for fighting the outbreak of a pandemic COVID-19 disease. The audiences also suggested that developing vaccine injection robotics may also be very interesting in helping the COVID-19 disease. We are all looking forwards to knowing more advanced developments next time.