Announcement: KUPAC RoX Webinar
KUPAC RoX Webinar
Frontiers of Dataspace Architecture and Interoperability in Industrial Robotics
Webinar Overview
Industrial robotics increasingly depends on seamless, secure data exchange across vendors and systems.
The talk presents RoX and its approach to building an open ecosystem supported by a dataspace architecture — turning interoperability from a goal into an implementable path.
It explains how semantics and connectors enable consistent integration and introduces KIT as a concept ("Keep It Together") that keeps technology, partners, and use-case requirements aligned.
Selected logistics and production scenarios show what dataspace connectivity looks like in practice, with a view to the Hannover Messe 2026 where three demonstrators provide an applied perspective.
Event Details
Speakers
Chris Schlueter Langdon
VP AI & Data Ecosystems Americas at Deutsche Telekom / AI Professor at the Drucker School (Claremont/LA)
Chris Schlueter Langdon is VP AI & Data Ecosystems Americas at Deutsche Telekom and an AI Professor at the Drucker School (Claremont/LA), leading the Drucker Customer Lab. He scales Web3-enabled dataspace tech for trusted cross-company data sharing powering physical AI and digital twins, including in Catena-X (automotive) and RoX (robotics). Works with Fortune Global 100 in US/EU/Asia.
Lukas Sohlbach
Project Manager at VDMA, Forum Manufacturing-X Department
Lukas Sohlbach holds a B.Eng. in interdisciplinary engineering (mechatronics) and an M.Sc. in mechatronics and robotics. He completed a cooperative Ph.D. between Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and the University of Cádiz, focusing on bio-inspired control methods based on spiking neural networks to drive artificial muscles in soft robots. He is currently a Project Manager at VDMA in the Forum Manufacturing-X department, working on data spaces and ecosystems in the robotics industry. His responsibilities include technology transfer and harmonization with related initiatives, with a research focus on standards and semantics for interoperable data space-based ecosystems.
Richard Bormann
Head of Handling and Intralogistics Research Team, Fraunhofer IPA
Dipl.-Ing. Richard Bormann (M. Sc.) heads the Handling and Intralogistics research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. After completing his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Engineering Cybernetics at the Universities of Magdeburg and Stuttgart, Germany, and his master's degree in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, he was responsible for numerous national and international research and industrial projects on robotic solutions for logistics and handling, professional cleaning and care support at Fraunhofer IPA. His research team's current work focuses on robot perception, grasp planning and handling solutions for industrial and warehouse applications in bin picking, bin packing, order fulfillment, (de-)palletizing, truck unloading and mobile handling robots.