The mechatronics engineering undergraduate program held a talk on "Remote technologies for automation" led by Santiago Orellana, general manager of Data Lights, who spoke about different topics such as methodological and technological options for distance education, software and hardware tools, curriculum and services that can implemented at work.

Participants, mostly students and professors, learned about the different roles and activities a mechatronics engineer can carry out in our current society by combining theoretical knowledge and practice in the industry and education.

Orellana stressed that the pandemic marked an increase of the daily use of 4.0 technology in basic processes such as the digitization of information, measurement, automation or more complex systems such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, and others. Based on the pandemic, several plans were created with investment in new learning so that they are useful in the short, medium and long term.

He also stressed that education is one of the activities that, due to the current context, has seen the need to evolve. Therefore, the use of platforms that simulate and virtualize remote laboratories and portable equipment represent tools that facilitate teacher's work and classes for students, so several companies had to adapt to change in just 60 days.

Finally, the speaker invited attendees to look at this crisis as an opportunity to be creative and use technologies to our advantage.