“WASP produces a doctor a week, which is fantastic. But how do we take care of them and get them to find sufficiently advanced jobs in Sweden?” asked Professor Anders Ynnerman, programme director of WASP, in a direct rejoinder to the Prime Minister.
When Professor Fredrik Heintz noted that LiU covers all current research areas in AI, the Prime Minister commented that it must also be an advantage to be a university characterised by interdisciplinarity. Not just well-read on the university, the Prime Minister also turned out to be quite handy in navigating a robot dog in a laboratory environment. Researchers Patrick Doherty and Mariusz Wzorek demonstrated how a mock rescue operation involving multiple robots could be carried out. The Prime Minister, who also had to act “injured”, was, despite various obstacles, able to order and have delivered an emergency food package with the help of the robots. That may also have been welcome after an intensive programme at LiU.