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Ron Martin

Head of Group Adaptive Robotics
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS)

AND Breakout-Sessions
Breakout: AI in Automation: Between Hype and Reality – A Practical Perspective

AI promises significant productivity gains, but how realistic is this for the automation sector?

In this breakout session, we will examine the current state of AI adoption and share practical industry experiences. We will also demonstrate how companies can effectively integrate AI into their business, engineering and development processes. Key legal and compliance challenges will also be addressed, including data security, intellectual property rights and regulatory requirements.

In addition, the session highlights the emerging potential of humanoid robotics and next‑generation robotic AI models, revealing entirely new paths in automation. Wrapping up, we’ll hold an interactive panel discussion on the trends that will shape the future role of AI in automation, based on the key insights and opportunities covered throughout.

Join us and share your thoughts!

About Ron Martin

Ron Martin leads the Adaptive Robotics Group at Fraunhofer IIS, where he and his team develop AI-based methods for robotic systems and deploy them on edge hardware embedded directly at the robot controller. Prior to this role, he contributed to research at Fraunhofer IIS in the areas of thermal chip design simulation, intelligent robot control, and automated code generation. He gained industry experience in the automotive sector in Stuttgart before moving into applied research.
Ron holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from DHBW Stuttgart and a Master’s degree in Computational Science from TU Dresden and TU Freiberg. During his studies, he completed several international research stays.