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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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Hokuyo URG LIDAR Drivers Integrated into National Instruments LabVIEW Robotics Software

01/19/10 — NI’s newly released LabVIEW Robotics 2009 software, used to design and prototype sophisticated robotics control systems, now includes drivers for Hokuyo’s URG family of compact laser range finders. Hokuyo Automatic Co., Ltd. announced that National Instruments has integrated drivers for Hokuyo’s URG Laser Range Finders (or known as LIDAR) as a standard feature for the newly released NI LabVIEW Robotics 2009 software. Hokuyo’s URG sensors have been recognized as the smallest laser range finders available on the market and are suitable for small robotics platforms. Since released in 2004, the URG-04LX has been widely used in robotics research laboratories around…

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