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.

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.

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!

NorthStar^TM 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.

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.

RoboNexus Center Stage Demonstration Schedule
Booth 422 - Friday,  October 22, 2004

11:00-11:30

CENTIBOTS DEMO

Centibots are large groups of Linux-based, coordinated mobile robots that can autonomously and effectively explore, map, and survey the interior of unknown building structures. In this demonstration, produced by SRI International, 10 Centibots will work as team, communicating with each other, mapping unexplored areas and navigating a complex maze while avoiding hazardous structures. See www.ai.sri.com/centibots for more information. For a demo, click here.

Presented by Dr. Regis Vincent, Stanford Research Institute International

Dr. Regis Vincent is a research scientist at SRI International. He is the integration manager for the Centibots project. He has worked on robots and Unmanned Air Vehicle for DARPA and ONR for several years. Regis has published over 20 papers in multi-agent systems and on robot collaboration.

RoboNexus Center Stage Demonstration Schedule
Booth 422 - Saturday,  October 23, 2004

11:00-11:30

CENTIBOTS DEMO

Centibots are large groups of Linux-based, coordinated mobile robots that can autonomously and effectively explore, map, and survey the interior of unknown building structures. In this demonstration, produced by SRI International, 10 Centibots will work as team, communicating with each other, mapping unexplored areas and navigating a complex maze while avoiding hazardous structures. See www.ai.sri.com/centibots for more information. For a demo, click here.

Presented by Dr. Regis Vincent, Stanford Research Institute International

Dr. Regis Vincent is a research scientist at SRI International. He is the integration manager for the Centibots project. He has worked on robots and Unmanned Air Vehicle for DARPA and ONR for several years. Regis has published over 20 papers in multi-agent systems and on robot collaboration.

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.