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Slideshow: RoboBusiness Leadership
Summit 2011: A Look Back

Hundreds of attendees, exhibitors, and speakers from the world over converged at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston November 2-3 for the RoboBusiness Leadership Summit 2011. We’ve prepared a special slideshow that captures the highlights of the industry’s premier event.
Launch slideshow

The Robotics Event of the Year!

Industry pioneers and business executives came together to advance the commercialization of robotics at the RoboBusiness Leadership Summit held Nov. 2-3 in Boston. In this video Dan Kara, founder of RoboBusiness and Robotics Trends, and this year’s conference chairman, describes how attendees benefit from this premier event in a conversation with Rich Erb, managing director of Robotics Trends.

The Quest for the Automated Hospital

“You really need to develop a whole product solution—hardware, software, UI, interfaces, and process redesign—with a consideration for what problem you are really trying to solve.” —Aldo Zini

A New Take on Autonomy

Getting large teams of robots to collaborate is the work of Dr Regis Vincent, who envisions applications that include mapping nuclear contamination.

Human and Robot ‘Colleagues’ in Manufacturing

What obstacles remain for robots to work alongside humans in industrial settings, and how far have we come in eliminating those challenges? Dr. Roland Menassa answers these and other questions in his presentation at the RoboBusiness summit November 2-3 in Boston.

Robotics and Automation as an Enabler to Agricultural Systems Productivity

John Reid, director of Product Technology and Innovation at Moline Technology Innovation Center, a part of John Deere’s Global Technology Innovation Network, discusses how his company’s technologies will help feed the world’s billions.

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Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point Cloud Library (PCL) Open Source Community

Filed Dec 18, 2011

Urban Robotics Inc., a leading provider of three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors, software and algorithms, today announced it is making its highly scalable, spatially searchable and colorized 3D octree-based point cloud format available to the Point Cloud Library (PCL) community. PCL is a standalone, large scale, open source project for 3D point cloud processing. Willow Garage launched PCL in March 2011, to help accelerate 3D algorithmic work related to robotic applications. It is free for research…

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ABOUT WILLOW GARAGE: Willow Garage develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. By investing in open source and open platform adoption models, the company aims to lay the groundwork for the use of personal robotics applications in everyday life.

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