WIPO GREEN, the sustainable technology marketplace of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, is running a 90-minute webinar on robots built for environmental work. Five technology providers from the WIPO GREEN database will show what they have in the field, followed by a discussion with a climate-tech investor.
Programme (Geneva time)
- 13:00 Opening remarks by the WIPO Assistant Director General for Global Challenges, Opportunities and Partnerships
- 13:05 Technology presentations, moderated by Yoshinari Oyama, Green Technology and Liaison Officer, WIPO
- 14:00 Discussion and Q&A with Andrew Douglas, early-stage climate-tech investor
- 14:25 Closing remarks by Nompumelelo Obokoh, Head of Climate Change and Food Security, WIPO
Presenting
- Cristian León, DROVID (Chile): edge-AI platform for forest protection
- Tetsuya Nakamura, Newgreen (Japan): Aigamo-Robot, a weeding robot for rice paddies
- Marcel Vroom, npk strategic product innovation (Netherlands): H2arvester
- David Chaupis, Api Robotics (Peru): precision pollination using bioacoustic models in smart beehives
- Minjik Kim, AETECH (Republic of Korea): Atron, an AI-based waste sorting robot
The webinar is in English and runs on Zoom. Register on the Zoom registration page; the programme and concept note are on the WIPO meeting page.