{"id":12114,"date":"2025-04-25T08:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=12114"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:17:32","slug":"advanced-robotics-and-ai-in-industrial-manufacturing-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/digital-transformation\/advanced-robotics-and-ai-in-industrial-manufacturing-episode-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced robotics and AI in industrial manufacturing- Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=TLFIE3666844468\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><!-- Megaphone -->\n\n\n<p>In the fourth episode of advanced robotics series in our Digital Transformation podcast, host Chris Pennington, global industry marketing leader for industrial machinery at Siemens Digital Industries software along with Rahul Garg, Vice President for industrial machinery vertical software strategy at Siemens Digital Industries software, will be speaking with Jens Meckel, head of business line advanced automation and robotics. 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Robotics<\/div>\n<\/div>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jens-meckel-b233411a4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Jens<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth episode of advanced robotics series in our Digital Transformation podcast, host Chris Pennington, global industry marketing leader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107733,"featured_media":11967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[353,373,298,299,385,311],"industry":[49],"product":[],"coauthors":[990],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-transformation","tag-ai","tag-digital-transformation-tag","tag-digital-twin","tag-digitalization","tag-podcast","tag-simulation","industry-industrial-machinery"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/03\/robot-arm-420_original.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12342,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions\/12342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}