Innovation Demo Day 2025 – Autonomous Machinery, Forestry Crane and Forklift at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
15 May 2025: Bringing automated robots and machinery into real-world operation at the Austrian Institute of Technology — Demo Day 2025 – AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
AI, robotics and automation: product compliance and law.
Working with Austrian industry and the research sector, these are some of the legal issues I address in the technical development of intelligent and autonomous heavy machinery—such as outdoor forklifts and truck-mounted cranes—as part of the GUARDIAN project:
- Software and hardware: safety before liability—safety first.
- Technical standards (EN, ISO, etc.) alone do not make a product safe.
- Always include a legal risk assessment, not only a technical one.
- Consider cybersecurity from the outset—security by design.
- Clarify data-protection issues.
Together with the following innovation leaders and GUARDIAN project partners:
– Autonomous driving and artificial intelligence (AI) – EUSTACCHIO
– PALFINGER
– Center for Vision, Automation & Control – AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
– Business Upper Austria – the Upper Austrian business agency
– Digitrans
