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“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
Getting large teams of robots to collaborate is the work of Dr Regis Vincent, who envisions applications that include mapping nuclear contamination.
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.
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.
Mark Ingebretsen
abreast of the latest news, research, and business
analysis in key areas of the fast-changing
robotics industry
According to Dan Kara, conference chairman and President of Robotics Trends, “In the past, the majority of robots were used in a manufacturing capacity. While the industrial and service robotics markets are sizable and growing, they will soon be dwarfed by the fastest growing of all robotics markets – Consumer Robotics. We are delighted to have Bob Christopher speak at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition. UGOBE, and its groundbreaking Pleo Designer Life Form product, represent the cutting edge of the consumer robotics, a multibillion dollar industry poised for dramatic growth.”
According to Bob Christopher, CEO, Chairman and of Founder, UGOBE, Inc., “The RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition is the world’s leading event focused on the commercial application of mobile robots and intelligent systems to develop entirely new products and markets. As such it represents a great opportunity for UGOBE to educate the RoboBusiness attendees - business, technical, academic and investment professionals from around the world - about interactive, organic robotic products and UGOBE’s role in the exciting new consumer robotics market.”
RoboBusiness sponsors include Founding Sponsor iRobot and Premiere Sponsors Innova Holdings and the Technology Collaborative, along with corporate co-sponsors Advanced Digital Logic, American Robot, Applied Perception, Automatika, Autonomous Solutions, CoroWare, Evolution Robotics, Foster-Miller, Japan External Trade Association (JETRO) and City of Osaka, Massachusetts Office of Business Development, MobileRobots Inc., Pittsburgh Pattern recognition, RE2, ROBOTIS, Segway, ShopBot Tools, Skeyes Unlimited, Systronix, Valde Systems and Yost Engineering. RoboBusiness academic, association and media co-sponsors include Premier Media Co-Sponsor Popular Science, along with Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University Robot Hall of Fame, Robotics Society of America, Circuit Cellar, Defense Today, Entertainment Engineering, Robot Magazine, Industrial Robot Journal, Informa Alliance, IT Toolbox, Nuts & Volts, Linux Journal, Machine Brain, Network World, Innovation Works, Mass Technology Leadership Council, MDG Boston Forum, RC Driver, Robotics World, Object Management Group, Global Emerging Technology Institute, Vision Systems Design, and Servo Magazine.
About Robotics Trends
Robotics Trends is the world’s first integrated media firm serving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics marketplace, servicing their clientele through three major business divisions: divisions:
Robotics Trends Publishing, which produces http://www.roboticstrends.com, an online news and information portal focused on business and technology trends for people who build, buy, invest in, and seek to understand the personal, service, mobile and military robotics market;
Robotics Trends Events, which produces the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition (http://www.robobusiness2006.com) and the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition (http://www.robonexus.com); and
Robotics Trends Analyst Services serving the strategic consulting needs of leading emerging robotics manufacturers.
About IDG World Expo
IDG World Expo (http://www.idgworldexpo.com) produces technology-focused tradeshows, conferences and events for professionals seeking world-class education, peer-to-peer networking and one-stop comparison shopping. As the leading technology event management company, IDG World Expo leverages its experience and knowledge of technology-focused events and conferences, enabling technology companies to capture the attention and loyalty of influential buyers. IDG World Expo’s portfolio of conferences and events includes Macworld Conference & Expo®, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, Bio-IT World Conference + ExpoTM, Health-IT World Conference + ExpoTM, COMNET® Conference & Expo, BiometricsWorld Global SeriesTM, Portable Power Conference & ExpoTM and Wireless Sensing SolutionsTM. IDG World Expo is a business unit of IDG, the world’s leading technology media, research and event company.
Contact
For information on RoboBusiness 2006 sponsorship, exhibit and speaking opportunities available, please contact Howard Weinman, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at (508) 351-6606 x103 or email hw(at)roboticstrends.com.
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