I gave this presentation mid may 2018 at the annual CSCMP Europe conference in Rotterdam in front of a crowd of supply chain professionals. The presentation included also various demos with a TJ Bot robot and various web client demos on the use of Watson.

1. IBM Watson Goes Robotics
The Why, The How and The Value
Thorsten Schroeer
Director Industrial Sector
Member IBM Industry Academy
IBM Corporation
CSCMP European Conference
Rotterdam | May 18th. 2018

2. • TJBot is an open source bot to help access
Watson Services in a fun way. It’s a cardboard
robot which comes with an initial set of recipes
(step-by-step instructions) to help you connect
your TJBot to Watson cognitive services and
bring him to life.
• TJBot is the first maker kit and was created by
Maryam Ashoori at IBM Research as an
experiment to find the best practices in the
design and implementation of cognitive objects.
TJBot was was affectionately named after
Thomas J. Watson, the first Chairman and CEO
of IBM.
What is a TJBot?

4. 4
IBM’s next era is all about the power of AI solutions, Cloud
platform, delivered to transform industries
1. AI 2. Cloud 3. Industry
Cloud is a catalyst for
innovation, speed and new
applications allowing enterprises
to innovate instantly.
AI systems augment human
intelligence, allowing faster and more
informed decisions
Deep industry expertise is required
to transform companies, industries
and professions in a AI era.

5. The Why

6. >1890 Tabulating 1960 Programmable >2010 Cognitive

7. 80% of all data is dark and not used at all
2018 20222013

8. 8
1/3 Rule

9. 1x1 Millimeter
0,1 €
x86 chip 90‘s
PV powered
> 100.000 transistors
124 Minicomputer
www.research.ibm.com/5-in-5/

10. Understands
imagery, language and other
unstructured data like humans
forms hypotheses, infers
and extracts ideas
With every interaction to
sharpen expertise
With humans through
seeing, talking and hearing
Reasons Learns Interacts
IBM Watson = AI + ML + DL

11. Watson IoT / Interactive hospital rooms
Consumer AI vs Enterprise AI

12. The How

13. 13

14. But there are two different worlds out there
14© 2018 IBM Corporation
„Big Data Style“
Agile
Scrum
User Stories
Fail Fast
„Engineering Style“
Waterfall
Requirement
Engineeing
Failure not an
option

15. Empathy
Conversation
Vision
Discovery
Speech
Language
Language
Translator
Personality
Insights
Natural
Language
Understanding
Tone
Analyzer
Discovery
News
Speech
to Text
Natural
Language
Classifier
Conversation
Service
Text
to Speech
Visual
Recognition
Discovery
Service
How Watson sees, hears,
speaks, feels, translates, finds
Watson services
Retrieve
and Rank
Knowledge
Studio
Virtual Agent

17. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION
extend humans with digital labor
and Watson AI
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Right brain
Cognition based
Left brain
Rules based
Eyes
Data capture
Central nervous system
Coordination &
orchestration
Hands
Software robots
www.bit.ly/2rO1xz9

18. Video Josie Pepper
Airport Munich
https://bit.ly/2HPGZzi

19. Stadtreinigung Hamburg (iOS App)
Try Me! : http://wasterecognition.eu-de.mybluemix.net/
DEMO

22. IBM Watson meets 16M Apple Developers CoreML

24. Acoustic & Noise Analytics

25. Visual Insights
Predictive Maintenance
Acoustic Insights
Equipment Advisor
IBM AI Powered Manufacturing Demo
Mitsubishi Robot
MELFA RV-7FLM

26. https://ibm.co/2GwQDSS
Turning Rotterdam into the
“World’s Smartest Port” with IoT, Cloud and Watson

27. IBM Internal Supply Chain
Augmenting Supply Chain Decisions
Supply Chain
Professionals
We teach
Watson.
We program
Advisory.
Operation Center
Alerts
Resolution Room
We use IBM’s Cognitive
Data Lake
We utilize Enterprise
Data Sources.
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We gain insights
from IoT.
We upload
Data into
Watson
Analytics.
We analyze data recorded
in Blockchains
Watson Q&A

28. Assist & Augment Supply Chain Professionals
Resolution
Room
Operation Center
Watson Advisor
Parts Quality Advisor
Test Advisor
© 2018 IBM Corporation

29. Supply Chain Advisor – Domain Corpus
Supply Chain
- general -
Industry
Company
accelerated by
supplier & supply
chain SMEs
World Knowledge
- relevant for Supply Chains
(e.g. Weather, News, ) -
accelerated by IBM
and ecosystem
partners
accelerated
through IBM
Teaching
Methods

30. LIVE DEMO

31. Watson Customer Engagement31
Cognitive Butler
Level of
augmented
intelligence
Journey to a Cognitive Supply Chain
Cognitive Moderator Cognitive Advisor
Locates and invites experts to join
21 43
Takes just minutes
Run cognitive playbooks
6
Dynamic, real-time expert
Provide trade-off analysis
5
Provides relevant information
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3
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32. https://bit.ly/2I3CEoZ

33. © 2016 IBM Corporation
IBM Market Development & Insights
33 33
https://bit.ly/2JUUQBE
Weight: 5kg (11 lbs)
Diameter: 32cm (12.6 inch)
Propulsion System: Air
Autonomy: 2h
Guidance, Navigation & Control System
Video and Ultra Sonic Sensors
Artificial Intelligence powered by IBM Watson™

34. „Intelligence is the ability to adapt
to change.“
Stephen Hawking
1942 -2018

36. www.ibm.com/de/cebit

37. One more thing…

38. Watson IoT / Interactive hospital rooms
38
Quantum Computing
https://bit.ly/2F7wXVy

39. 1
Flip Coin

40. https://lnkd.in/d5YWGam

41. Links to remember
• IBM Cloud (free account): https://www.ibm.com/cloud/
• IBM Watson - The AI Platform for Business: https://www.ibm.com/watson/
• IBM Watson – How it Works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xcmh1LQB9I
• Build a TJBot: https://www.research.ibm.com/tjbot/
• IBM Visual Recognition: https://www.ibm.com/watson/services/visual-recognition/demo/index.html#watson-demo
• Quantum Computing: www.ibm.co/2I3bNwj
• IBM / DHL AI Study - https://bit.ly/2I3CEoZ
• Port of Rotterdam: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/think/2018/01/smart-port-rotterdam
• Airbus with CIMON: https://bit.ly/2JUUQBE
• www.research.ibm.com/5-in-5/

42. IBM Watson Goes Robotics
The Why, The How and The Value
Thorsten Schroeer
Director Industrial Sector
Member IBM Industry Academy
IBM Corporation
CSCMP European Conference
Rotterdam | May 18th. 2018