Carl-Helmut Coulon, PhD

INVITE GmbH
Head of Future Manufacturing Concepts
Charly got his PhD in Artificial Intelligence 26 years ago and then started in automation at Bayer Corporation.

For the past nine years, he says he has had the best job of his life at the non-profit research institute INVITE GmbH. His goal is to drive forward the use of modern robotics in pharmaceutical and chemical industry.

Important milestones in recent years include the AIRA-Challenge on mobile robotics located at the ACHEMA tradeshow (https://aira-challenge.com/challenge2022.php) in 2022 and 2024 as well as introduction of the Robotics Application of the Year Awards at the ISPE (https://aira-challenge.com/challenge2022.php).