Abstract:
Wandelbots revolutionizes the production industry with NOVA, its new Robot Operating System. WandelScript, a Python-based scripting language for fast programming of robotic applications is presented, including its simulation environment.  Several customer projects with WandelScript are presented and a development demo is given.

Bio:
Christian Piechnick is the CEO and co-founder of Wandelbots. He developed the idea for the company while studying media informatics and software architecture at the Technical University of Dresden with his wife Maria and four other doctoral students. Together, they founded the deep-tech software start-up in 2018 out of TU Dresden. With his vision of developing a platform that makes it possible to provide easy-to-use, intelligent and connected apps for robots, he quickly attracted investors for Wandelbots. In 2023, the company secured an investment of 75 million euros. His innovative spirit earned him the “Newcomer of the Year” award from the German Startup Association in 2020. The company's future focus is on an operating system and a developer platform to support customer-specific robot applications.