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RoboNexus Event-at-a-Glance |
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RoboNexus is the
largest and most
comprehensive robotics event
ever produced in the U.S.
Focusing on the emerging
personal and mobile robotics
marketplace,
RoboNexus has
something for everyone!
Whether you are a robotics
professional,
software/hardware engineer,
educator or investor,
you'll want to see why and
how the personal and mobile
robotics industry is poised
to be the first new industry
of the 21st century.
If you are a hobbyist,
involved or interested in
robotics competitions, or
you want to see the coolest new robotics
consumer devices, you'll
want to attend and bring the
kids to our special
RoboNexus Consumer and
Entertainment programs
on Friday and
Saturday.
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9:00 |
Conference Introduction
Dan Kara, Conference
Chairman, President,
Robotics Trends |
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9:10 |
Intelligent Robotic
Systems in the Lab and
in the Marketplace
Dr. Rodney Brooks,
Director, MIT Computer
Science and Artificial
Intelligence Lab,
Co-Founder and CTO, iRobot |
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10:15 |
Welcome to the Era of
Mass Market Robotics
Helen Greinier,
Co-founder and Chairman,
iRobot |
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11:15 |
Robotics: When?
Alec Hudnut, President,
Evolution Robotics |
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LUNCH
BREAK |
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1:00 |
Humanoid Robotics: The
Kawada Industries
Experience
Tadahiro Kawada,
Managing Director,
Kawada Industries, Inc. |
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2:00 |
Mobile
Robots: Entering the Commercial
Marketplace
Neena Buck, Vice
President of Emerging
Frontiers, Strategy
Analytics |
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3:15 |
Cutting Edge Laser
Measurement Technology
for Service Robots
Jeff Wuendry, Product
Marketing Manager, SICK |
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4:15 |
To
See the World
Hans Moravec, Principal
Research Scientist,
Robotics Institute, CMU |
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9:00 |
Conference
Introduction
Dan Kara, Conference
Chairman, President,
Robotics Trends |
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9:10 |
Intelligent Robotic
Systems in the Lab and
in the Marketplace
Dr. Rodney Brooks,
Director, MIT Computer
Science and Artificial
Intelligence Lab,
Co-Founder/CTO, iRobot |
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10:15 |
Welcome to the Era of
Mass Market Robotics
Helen Greinier,
Co-founder and Chairman,
iRobot |
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11:15 |
Robotics: When?
Alec Hudnut, President,
Evolution Robotics |
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LUNCH
BREAK |
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1:00 |
Agile
Robotics Technology and
Growth of the Industry
Bill Thomasmeyer,
President, Robotics
Foundry |
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2:00 |
Current Trends and
Opportunities in
Robotics
George, Bekey,
Professor of Computer
Science (Emeritus), USC |
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2:45 |
VISIT THE EXPO FLOOR |
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3:15 |
The 5 Robotics
Challenges for the Next
20 Years
Dr. François Pierrot,
Director of Research,
CNRS
Montpellier Laboratory
of Computer Science,
Robotics, and
Microelectronics - LIRMM
Co-founder & Chairman,
Wany Robotics
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4:15 |
Robotics Technology &
Osaka: Osaka is Becoming
a Center for Robotics
Technology
Eimei M. Onaga,
Robotics Advisor to
Osaka City,
President, Innovation
Matrix, Inc. |
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9:00 |
Conference Introduction
Dan Kara, Conference
Chairman, President,
Robotics Trends |
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9:10 |
Inspire!
- Using
Robotics to Foster
Educational Aims, Teach
Life Skills and Promote
Innovation
Dean Kamen, CEO, DEKA
Research & Development
Corp and Founder, FIRST |
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10:15 |
The Design and
Development of Sociable
Robots
Cynthia Breazeal,
Assistant Professor of
Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Media Lab |
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11:00 |
Four Decades of
Innovation: Creating the
Robotic Revolution
Raymond Perrault,
Director of the
Artificial Intelligence
Center, SRI
International
Charles Ortiz, Program
Manager, Artificial
Intelligence Center |
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12:00 |
VISIT THE EXPO FLOOR |
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1:00 |
Why Standard Robotics
Software Platforms Drive
the Consumer Robotics
Market
Dr. Paolo Pirjanian,
Chief Scientist,
Evolution Robotics |
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2:00 |
Applying 32-bit
Operating Systems in
Educational Robotics
Stewart Tansley, Program
Manager, Microsoft
Research |
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2:45 |
VISIT THE EXPO FLOOR |
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3:15 |
The 10 (or 11) Basic
Ways to Make Things Move
Roger G. Gilbertson,
President & Cofounder,
RobotStore.com,
Mondo-tronics, Inc. |
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4:15 |
Model Driven
Architecture (MDA)-based
Software Development in
Robotics
Dr. Jon Siegel, Vice
President, Technology
Transfer, Object
Management Group |
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9:00 |
Conference Introduction
Dan Kara, Conference
Chairman, President,
Robotics Trends |
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9:10 |
Inspire!
- Using
Robotics to Foster
Educational Aims, Teach
Life Skills and Promote
Innovation
Dean Kamen, CEO, DEKA
Research & Development
Corp and Founder, FIRST |
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10:15 |
The Design and
Development of Sociable
Robots
Cynthia Breazeal,
Assistant Professor of
Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Media Lab |
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11:00 |
The 5 Robotics
Challenges for the Next
20 Years
Dr. François Pierrot,
Director of Research,
CNRS
Montpellier Laboratory
of Computer Science,
Robotics, and
Microelectronics - LIRMM
Co-founder & Chairman,
Wany Robotics |
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12:00 |
VISIT THE EXPO FLOOR
100's of Robots,
Robotics Competitions,
Leading Robots, click
here for more. |
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1:00 |
Integrating Robotics
into Educational
Curricula
Kenneth Berry, Founder
RoboEducators, Assistant
Professor, California
State University |
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2:00 |
NASA's Robotics
Education Project
Alan N. Federman Ph.D,
Senior Engineer,
Raytheon ITSS Co. Ltd. |
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2:45 |
VISIT THE EXPO FLOOR |
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3:15 |
Robotics in the
Classroom - Incubator
for Future Innovators
Nola Garcia, Executive
Director of Education,
BattleBots IQ Inc. |
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4:15 |
Education Through
Entertainment –
Cooperative Mobile
Robots
Nanu Swamy, Founder and
Director of Technology,
RoboTech Center |
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11:00 |
Art With Robots
Max Chandler, Artist |
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11:30 |
Why We Need to Love Our
Robots - and How to Make
it Happen
Joanne Pransky, Robotic
Psychiatrist |
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12:00 |
Consumer Robots - the
Next Decade
David Calkins, President
of the Robotics Society
of America, Founder of
ROBOlympics |
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12:30 |
Beyond 'Cool Idea':
Supporting the Robotics
Community and Building
an Industry
Dan Danknick, Technical
Editor, SERVO and Nuts &
Volts Magazines |
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1:00 |
Networked Robot Art
Ken Goldberg, Artist and
Professor, Industrial
Engineering and
Operations Research, and
Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science,
University of California
at Berkeley |
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1:30 |
Panel: To Build a
Industry
Moderator: Lance
Ulanoff, Executive
Editor, PCMag.com
Panelists: Fred
Nikgohar, CEO,
RoboDynamics, Thomas
Burick, President, White
Box Robotics |
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2:00 |
Robots, Robots
Everywhere
Dan Kara, Conference
Chair, President,
Robotics Trends |
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2:30 |
Kids + Robots =
Technological Literacy
Robin Shoop, Director of
Educational Outreach,
Robotics Academy, The
National Robotics
Engineering Consortium |
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11:15 |
Webots:
Fast Prototyping and Simulation
Software
for Mobile Robotics
Dr. Olivier Michel, Founder/CEO,
Cyberbotics Ltd.
 The Webots mobile robotics simulation
software provides you with a rapid
prototyping environment for modelling,
programming and simulating mobile
robots. The included robot libraries
enable you to transfer your control
programs to many commercially available
real mobile robots, including Aibo, LEGO
Mindstorms, Khepera and others. This
software has been developed since 1996
and was sold to over 200 universities
and research centers worldwide. The
presentation will include some software
demonstrations and simulation movies.
Dr. Oliverie Mechel received a PhD from
Nice University (France) in 1996 and
worked as a postdoc researcher in LAMI
at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne from which he
created Cyberbotics in 1998. Cyberbotics
developed the Aibo robot simulator for
Sony and is now developing Webots which
has become a reference software in
mobile robot prototyping and simulation
used by over 200 universities and
research centers worldwide. |
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VISIT THE EXPO FLOOR
100's of Robots,
Robotics Competitions,
Leading Robots, click
here for more. |
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12:15 |
Rogue
Blue Educational Robotic System -
21st
Century Classroom Robotics
Erik Hagman, President, Rogue Robotics
 Become acquainted with the Rogue Blue
Educational Robotic System for Grade 11
and 12 education. The Rogue Blue ERS
uses the advanced OOPIC processor for
21st century objected oriented education
in Basic, C, and Java syntaxes. The
Rogue Blue robot base family is
expandable and flexible allowing for
classroom creativity.
As
President of Rogue Robotics, Erik Hagman
is leading the delivery of low cost,
high quality robotics to educators,
researchers, students and hobbyists.
Before creating Rogue Robotics, Erik
worked in Neural Network design,
Avionics software, Animatronic control,
and Engineering Management. He has a
degree in Psychology (Cognitive
Science).
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1:15 |
Roomba
Discovery Demo
Colin Angle, CEO/Co-Founder,
iRobot Corporation
 Mr.
Angle will be demonstrating iRobot's
their flagship product, Roomba
Discovery. This new and exciting robot
is the smarter, simpler way to a cleaner
home. Roomba Discovery is the second
generation of the award winning Roomba
Robotic Floorvac line. New
 features
which include an automatic dirt response
system, room size sensing, and the
innovative self-charging Home Base
coupled with best of industry CPR
(coverage per room) make Roomba
Discovery the next step in the robot
revolution. Don’t miss out on this
informative and exciting demonstration.
Mr. Angle guides the strategic direction
of the company, by applying iRobot core
technologies to the commercial sector.
His background in both business and
technology facilitate his ability to
craft strategic relationships with
outside firms. Prior to co-founding
iRobot in 1992, Mr. Angle was President
of Artificial Creatures, Inc, and spent
three years at MIT’s Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory.
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2:15 |
WhiteBox Robotics 912 in
Action!
Thomas Burick,
President and
Founder,
White Box Robotics,
Inc.
 See
White Box Robotics'
Newest Consumer Robot -
The White Box 912. Tom
was the brainchild of
the 912, an
affordable personal robot powered
by an industry standard
VIA Mini-ITX mainboard.
This mainboard along
with other hardware
(hard drives,
CD-Burners, DVD drives,
web cams, etc.) are then
installed in the White
Box Robotics 912 mobile
platform. The end result
is an amazingly
high-tech, functional
mobile robot! |
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3:15 |
NorthStar Detector:
Localization Solution for
the Masses
Joe M. Brown, VP of Robotic
Systems, Evolution Robotics
 NorthStarTM
is a technological
breakthrough signifying
world-leading advances in
localization performance and
cost. NorthStar is a
photonic technology that
enables any electronic
product to know exactly
where it is in its
environment in real time.
Joe M. Brown is Vice
President of Robotic
Systems; heading up our
multidisciplinary product
engineering team. Joe brings
15 years of success leading
the development of
breakthrough industrial
color printing technologies,
high performance rapid
prototyping systems, heart
rate monitors, and numerous
products in the color
office-printer market. Joe
holds 5 awarded patents with
8 pending. |
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4:15 |
Component Based Robotics
Development
Lloyd Spencer, President and
CEO, CoroWare, Inc.
 CoroWare
will discuss and demonstrate
how its systems and robotics
integration team can help
customers integrate
off-the-shelf components to
build robotics solutions at
a fraction of the cost of
projects that require
specialized parts. Lloyd and
his team will be showing an
affordable mobile robot
powered by a VIA Mini-ITX
mainboard, Machine Labs
MMP-5 robotic base and other
off-the-shelf hardware and
software components.
Lloyd has more than 20 years
of experience in
engineering, marketing and
sales, and his technology
expertise ranges from
distributed network
computing to embedded
systems development. He has
been an active contributor
to the robotics community
through participation in the
Seattle Robotics Society and
youth programs such as
Washington State and
National 4H Technology
Programs. |
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FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS
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This year more than
65,000 young people
participated in
FIRST robotics
competitions
world-wide, paired
with professional
engineers and adult
mentors to design
and build robots in
a real-world,
hands-on engineering
experience. See
teams of young
people of all ages
exhibiting their
robots, including
competing robots in
action!
FIRST (For
Inspiration and
Recognition of
Science and
Technology) inspires
in young people,
their schools and
communities an
appreciation of
science and
technology, and of
how mastering these
can enrich the lives
of all.
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SONY AIBO WIRELESS DEMOS!
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 Hosted by the RoboTech Center, this
exhibition will demonstrate the speech
processing, image recognition and wireless
capabilities of Sony’s new ERS –7 robots. This
will be followed by the performance of one of
Mozart’s compositions by a group of wireless
enabled AIBO’s – enabling robotic enthusiasts to
experience the synchronous coordinated
performance of the robots.
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TETSUJIN 2004 COMPETITION |
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Tetsujin
means "iron man" in
Japanese
Sponsored by Servo magazine, the
Tetsujin 2004 competition will be held
at RoboNexus.
Teams
build powered
exoskeletons to augment
the strength of one
human in a weight
lifting competition
For more information,
click here.
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SOZBOTS
COMPETITIONS & DEMOS |
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Sozbots, 1 pound
fighting robots,
bring all the fun of
the robots weighing
hundreds of pounds
that you have seen
on television, but
with much more
energy and
excitement! |
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ROBOSUMO - BOOTH 807 |
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The JavaNator is a
Japan-class robot
sumo. Robot sumo has
been popular in
Japan for many
years, and has made
significant headway
in the US recently.
Robot sumo follows
rules resembling
sumo wrestling. Two
robots face each
other in a circular
arena, each
attempting to force
the other out of the
ring. The audience
can configure the
JavaNator through
Java-powered
wireless phones,
using Sun ONE Web
services and
wireless Ethernet.
The audience can
choose to emphasize
speed or agility.
These robots
broadcast video from
on-board cameras and
transmit over
wireless Ethernet
for display to the
audience. |
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Thousands of business, technology professionals and
consumers including:
- Business and technical
managers from Global 2000
corporations,
- Tech savvy consumers,
and their families,
- Retailers, resellers,
OEM's distributors and
manufacturers,
- Software, hardware and
embedded systems developers,
- Computer, electrical,
mechanical systems
engineers,
- Venture capitalists,
institutional and individual
investors,
- Producers of personal,
service and mobile robots,
- World's leading robotics
researchers and academics,
- Educators, education
professionals and curriculum
developers,
- Components manufacturers
(sensor, vision, motion
control, etc.),
- Industrial robotics
professionals,
- Hobbyists and robotics
enthusiasts,
- Systems Integrators,
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SEE
HUNDREDS OF ROBOTS AND NEW
TECHNOLOGY
RoboNexus has been developed to enable everyone
involved and/or interested in the
personal, consumer, service and
mobile robotics industry to
attend over 50,000 square feet
of robotics exposition filled
with all types of emerging
robotics business technologies,
competitions, software, hardware
and educational resources, and
more.
ATTEND UP TO 5 EMERGING
ROBOTICS CONFERENCES!
Attend one or more of RoboNexus' "Events-Within-The-Event"
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five main comprehensive conference and seminar programs in
one event!
LEARN THE STATE-OF-THE ART
IN ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY!
Learn what today's
state-of-the-art and
state-of-the-practice in
emerging robotics technologies
and applications are!
MEET WITH THE WORLD'S
LEADING ROBOTICS RESEARCH
LABS
See first hand all of the latest in robotics technology, products, and
emerging applications from the major research and
government robotics labs in the country.
LEARN WHAT THE FUTURE WILL
BRING FROM THE WORLD'S
LEADING ROBOTICISTS
Attend seminars, conferences and hear from and network
with industry leading vendors, thought leaders,
entrepreneurs, roboticists, researchers and more! Over
50 speakers!
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