Jens Kotlarski studied mechanical engineering in Hannover. He did his PhD in robotics and established his first company in 2012. In 2017 he founded Yuanda Robotics focusing on collaborative robots with human senses. Today, as founder and CEO of voraus robotik, Jens and his team build an agnostic SW platform for automation. A platform that unleashes the potential of Industrial DevOps and modern SW development and orchestrates the entire automation in real time. In addition, Jens is founder of non-commercial entities and supports several initiatives to bring together various different groups in the field of robotics and automation.