Robot soccer prof set to give space talk

THE potential for delivering solar power from outer space to earth will be explored today by a leading Austrian academic when he briefs staff and students at Waterford Institute of Technology on a Japanese/European study involving the use of robot soccer players in earth’s orbit.

Professor Peter Kopacek has headed up the Institute for Handling Devices & Robotics at Vienna University of Technology since 1990 and is president of the Austrian society for systems engineering and automation.

The author of six textbooks and more than 250 academic articles on robotics and information technology in automation, Prof Kopacek has been actively contributing to the field of advanced systems engineering for a quarter of a century.