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Participants within the Form & Function Robotics Challenge on the 2023 Robotics Summit & Expo. Source: MassRobotics
BOSTON — WTWH Media, which produces The Robot Report, has introduced that MassRobotics is the unique strategic accomplice of the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, which can be on May 1 and a couple of on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. In that function, MassRobotics is offering steerage and is appearing as a liaison to its community of companions, sponsors, and resident startups, in addition to to the worldwide robotics neighborhood.
“MassRobotics, being the largest robotics hub, sees great value in continuing our partnership with The Robot Report,” mentioned Tom Ryden, govt director of MassRobotics. “We look forward to bringing a unique perspective to the summit. As a significant event in the robotics field, we’re proud to participate and excited to showcase our innovations through multiple booths.”
Boston-based MassRobotics is a nonprofit robotics hub devoted to accelerating innovation and adoption within the discipline of robotics. The group gives entrepreneurs and startups with the workspace and networking they should efficiently develop, prototype, check, and commercialize the subsequent technology of robotics and linked units.
MassRobotics Accelerator startups to debut on the present
For the primary time, the Robotics Summit & Expo will host a pavilion with the ten members in MassRobotics’ Accelerator Program. The 10 startups will exhibit on the present ground and can discus their journeys in a session on May 1 at 4:15 p.m. ET.
- Apparel Robotics
- brd BOT
- Gopher Motion
- Hominid X
- Mapless AI
- Oligo
- Robotics 88
- rStream
- SIMPL Automation
- Yard Robotics
“We’re excited to debut our first accelerator cohort at the Robotics Summit,” mentioned Marita McGinn, director of the MassRobotics Accelerator. “This showcase is especially meaningful for us, as it represents a significant milestone in our mission of helping scale the next great robotics companies. Being able to present our cohort at an event attended by industry leaders and roboticists underscores the value and impact of our program in fostering innovation and driving advancements in the field of robotics.”
“Technical founders can often jump to product-building mode before intimately understanding their end user and customer,” she added. “During this program, our startups will each complete at least 25 customer discovery interviews, in an effort to hone in on their customer pain and needs. Our goal is to help these brilliant technical founders to bolster their business acumen through this curriculum.”
Several of MassRobotics’ resident startups will showcase their applied sciences in Startup Alley on the present ground. MassRobotics may even host a session and sales space selling healthcare robotics startups from its Catalyst program.
Form & Function Robotics Challenge to call winners at expo
For the second yr in a row, members within the MassRobotics Form & Function Robotics Challenge will present their prototypes on the Robotics Summit & Expo present ground. The problem known as for college groups to create a robotics mission that delivers a compelling design particular to its duties whereas performing a helpful perform.
The groups have come from world wide:
- Cornell University
- Harvard University
- Kennesaw State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northeastern University
- Seoul National University/Mechanical Engineering/Biorobotics Lab
- Stanford, University of Michigan, RPI
- RPI
- The Technical University of Kenya
- Tufts University
- University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus)
- University of Florida
- University of Massachusetts Lowell
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of Michigan
- University of Notre Dame
- Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
- Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Form & Function Robotics Challenge additionally inspired collaboration between the college groups and MassRobotics companions offering state-of-the-art {hardware} and software program, together with AMD, Analog Devices, Danfoss, Festo, Lattice, Mitsubishi Electric, Novanta, SolidWorks, and igus.
MassRobotics will announce the winners of the $10,000 grand prize and $1,000 second and third prizes at midday on Thursday, May 2, within the Engineering Theater on the Robotics Summit & Expo present ground. In addition, attendees will have the ability to vote for his or her favourite groups, and the winner will obtain a $1,000 Audience Choice Award.
Click right here to enlarge picture. Source: MassRobotics
MassRobotics profession honest to attach candidates and employers
At the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, MassRobotics will conduct a Robotics Engineering Career Fair on May 2 from 3:30 to six:00 p.m. ET. It is meant to offer alternatives for job seekers to attach with producers of robots, synthetic intelligence, and machine studying applied sciences.
Past profession gala’s on the summit have drawn greater than 600 candidates, from current graduates to skilled engineers, pc scientists, imaginative and prescient specialists, mechatronics consultants, AI professionals, and extra. Hiring firms can enter to take part.
The Robotics Engineering Career Fair will return to the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. Source: MassRobotics
More in regards to the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo
The Robotics Summit & Expo focuses on the design, growth, and scaling of business robots. The annual occasion brings collectively the brightest minds in robotics from world wide to share their experience on matters starting from enabling applied sciences to growth instruments and methods and extra.
“The Robotics Summit & Expo demonstrates the value of a world-class technical conference for those developing commercial robotics,” mentioned Steve Crowe, govt editor for robotics at WTWH Media and chair of the Robotics Summit & Expo. “We’re thrilled to work with MassRobotics to gather technology and industry leaders building the next generation of robotics systems and services.”
Keynotes will function the next luminaries:
- Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robotic officer at Agility Robotics
- Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics
- Ujjwal Kumar, group president at Teradyne Robotics
- Morgan Pope, analysis scientist, and Moritz Baecher, affiliate lab director for robotics, at Disney Research
- Medtronic will reveal its distant robotic-assisted surgical system.
The Robotics Summit may even embody convention tracks on the automated warehouse and AI along with growth, enabling applied sciences, and healthcare. An Engineering Theater on the present ground will function extra displays on progressive programs and use circumstances.
More than 130 exhibitors will present their applied sciences on the expo present ground. The occasion is co-located with DeviceTalks Boston, which focuses on the event of medical units and applied sciences.
On Wednesday, May 1, the Robotics Summit & Expo will host the inaugural RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards Gala to have fun this yr’s winners of the celebrated recognition. Tickets can be obtainable for this gala.
This yr’s summit may even current networking alternatives within the type of VIP and welcome receptions, an Expo Floor Tailgate, and a Mix and Mingle occasion, in addition to a brand new Women in Robotics Breakfast on May 2.
Registration is now open for the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. An Academic Outreach Program presents reductions for attendees coming from faculties, universities, and analysis establishments.
For sponsorship alternatives, go to the occasion web site or contact Colleen Sepich at csepich[at]wtwhmedia.com.
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WTWH’s Robotics Group produces The Robot Report, Mobile Robot Guide, and Collaborative Robotics Trends. These on-line technical, enterprise and funding information and data portals give attention to robotics and clever programs. WTWH Media additionally produces main in-person conferences together with the Robotics Summit & Expo and RoboBusiness.
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