Conference Proceedings

30 Sessions Available in the Proceedings

Robotics Trends’ RoboDevelopment 2008 Conference Program (November, 18-19, 2008 - Santa Clara, CA) consisted of four distinct tracks over tow days jam-packed with valuable educational sessions designed to impart technical professionals with the information they need to develop the next generation of personal, service and mobile robots..

Tracks in the 2008 RoboDevelopment event included:

• Systems, Design and Development Track
• Tool and Platforms Track
• Enabling Technology Track
• Achieving Autonomy Track
  
  

Keynotes at RoboDevelopment 2008 included:

• Making Cars Drive Themselves, Sebastian Thrun, Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  Stanford University
  Robots Among Us?—Inventing the Future of Socially Assistive Robotics , Maja J Mataric, Founding Director, USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, University of Southern California
• Opportunities in the Defense and Security Robotics Sector, Michael Bruch, Section Head, Unmanned Systems Branch
  Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center
• Opportunities at the Uptick , Jeanne Dietsch, CEO, Mobile Robots

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29 Sessions Available in the Proceedings

Robotics Trends’ RoboBusiness 2008 Conference and Exposition (April, 8-9, 2008 - Pittsburgh, PA) brought emerging robotics technology out of the lab and into the open market, focusing on the business side of the mobile robotics business.  The overarching theme for the 2008 conference was ‘Achieving Autonomy’. In addition, the event featured two full days of healthcare robotics sessions under the heading ‘RoboMedicus’.

Tracks in the 2008 RoboBusiness event included:

• Business Development and Investment Track
• Technology and Standards Track
• Applications and Products Track
• Emerging Markets for Industrial Robots Track
• Technology and Standards Track
• Robotics Workforce Development Track
• RoboMedicus (Healthcare Robotics)
  
  • Applications and Products Track
  • Security and Defense Track
  • First Responder Robotics Track
  • Intelligent Transportation and Field Robotics Track
  • Autonomous Transportation
  • Consumer Robotics Track

Keynotes at RoboBusiness 2008 included:

• Military Robotics Evolution… From Technology to Concept… From Concept to Saving Lives, Kevin Fahey, Program Executive Officer, Ground Combat Systems, Department of the Army
• Field Robotics in Australia, Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Research Director, Australian Centre for Field Robotics
• The Business of Robots, Colin Angle, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, iRobot Corporation
• Quality of Life Technology, Takeo Kanade, Director, Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University
• Microsoft and Robotics – 2008 Update, Tandy Trower, General Manager, Microsoft Robotics Group, Microsoft
• The Growth of Robotics in the Consumer Market, Paolo Pirjanian, President and Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Robotics

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October 25-27, 2007
San Jose, CA

Robotics Trends’ RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition is a multifaceted educational forum and trade show dedicated to addressing the technical issues involved with the design and development of commercial robotic products.

The RoboDevelopment exposition hall provides attendees with hands on access to the latest design and development solutions for producing mobile robotics and intelligent systems technology, while the RoboDevelopment keynotes and general sessions are specifically designed to impart to technical professionals with the information they need to develop the next generation of personal, service and mobile robots.

Tracks in the RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition include:

• Design, Development and Standards
• Tools and Platforms
• Enabling Technology

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May, 2007
Boston, MA

Robotics Trends’ RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition is the ‘must attend’ event for those interested in the business and technical issues related to the development of the personal, service and mobile robotics industry.

Dramatic changes in the intelligent, mobile robotics market have occurred since the inaugural RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition in April 2004. No longer the reserve of wide eyed visionaries, the robotics industry has proven itself to be commercially viable, but more importantly, robotics and robotic technology are serving man in innumerable ways, from performing critical duties such as searching for IEDs in Iraq, mapping mines, providing perimeter security and performing surgery, to more homespun tasks such as vacuuming our living rooms, mowing our lawns and teaching our children. Robotics companies have gone public and robotics products have sold in the millions. Today’s robotic systems are better integrated with vision systems, force sensing feedback, speech recognition, and advanced mechanics. They are also more adaptable and applicable to new applications in virtually all vertical market segments.

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