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The Robotics Summit & Expo, produced by The Robot Report and father or mother firm WTWH Media, not too long ago introduced the complete convention agenda for the May 10-11 occasion on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Since its founding in 2018, the Robotics Summit & Expo has turn out to be the world’s premier business robotics improvement occasion.
The convention periods on the occasion are designed to impart engineers with the data they should develop and deploy the subsequent era of business robots. Beyond the keynotes and convention periods, there can be 150-plus reveals and demonstrations on the expo present ground, a profession truthful, a robotics improvement problem, networking alternatives and extra.
Register for full convention passes by March 9 to save lots of $300. Expo-only passes are simply $75. Academic reductions can be found and tutorial full convention charges are simply $295.
The Robotics Summit & Expo can be co-located with the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum (HREF), an occasion designed to offer engineers, engineering administration, enterprise professionals and others with details about efficiently develop and deploy the subsequent era of healthcare robotic. Also co-located with these occasions is DeviceTalks Boston, the premier {industry} occasion for medical know-how professionals. HREF and DeviceTalks Boston appeal to engineering and enterprise professionals from a spread of medical know-how backgrounds.
The full agenda for the Robotics Summit & Expo is under. You also can view the whole agenda right here and register right here.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Opening Keynote: Idea to Reality: Commercializing Robotics Technologies
Howie Choset, Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
8:45 AM -9:30 AM
Turning a know-how developed inside a lab right into a profitable robotics firm is not any simple process. Howie Choset has completed this a number of occasions with firms reminiscent of Medrobotics (surgical robots), Hebi Robotics (modular robots) and Bito Robotics (robotic software program). Choset will share insights concerning the robotics startups he based and greatest practices for taking technological innovation from an thought to actuality.
Keynote: Future of Open-Source Robotics Development
Wendy Tan White, CEO, Intrinsic
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
In this hearth chat, Intrinsic CEO Wendy Tan White will focus on the corporate’s ongoing efforts to make industrial robotics extra accessible and usable for thousands and thousands extra companies, entrepreneurs and builders. Tan White can even focus on the current acquisition of the Open Source Robotics Corporation and what it means going ahead.
Keynote: Scalable AI Solutions for Driverless Vehicles
Laura Major Chief Technology Officer, Motional
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Major will focus on Motional’s strategy to growing SAE Level 4 autonomous automobiles (AVs) that may safely navigate advanced highway eventualities. As a part of the dialogue, Laura will cowl the core challenges of AVs, deep studying developments, and Motional’s revolutionary Machine Learning-first options.
Breakout Session: Robotics Roadmap to Commercialization Success
Speakers: Jennifer Apicella, Vice President, Pittsburgh Robotics Network; Reese Mozer, CEO and Co-Founder, American Robotics; Andy McMillan, Advisory Board Chairman, Cirtronics
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Commercialization is the influence level the place all expectations on your product are examined – proper when it hits the market. Successful commercialization is nice for the person firm and the robotics {industry} as a complete. Success results in extra merchandise, whether or not they’re next-gen, spinoff, or brand-new new concepts. Join us in studying from three consultants within the robotics {industry} about how growing strategic partnerships can expedite business growth and the steps required to achieve this course of. While the highway to commercialization is probably not linear, executives share their firsthand experiences and necessities for precision and detail-oriented companions.
Breakout Session: Situational Awareness Using 3D LiDAR
Cedric Hutchings, Co-Founder & CEO, Outsight
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Many sorts of robots can leverage 3D LiDAR information to realize situational consciousness in actual time. This consciousness is crucial to carry out required duties but in addition to allow market adoption. However, successfully utilizing LiDAR information in actual time is advanced and costly. In this presentation, attendees will study a brand new class of LiDAR software program – a real-time pre-processing engine – that permits software builders and integrators to make use of LiDAR information from any {hardware} provider and for any software. Real-world use instances and LiDAR recordings can be used as an example the sensible functions.
Breakout Session: Achieving Scalable Interoperability with Automated Negotiation
Michael Grey, Software Engineering Manager, Intrinsic
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
With the fast acceleration of robotic deployments, the necessity for heterogeneous fleet administration will turn out to be commonplace. In this session, Intrinsic will share current developments within the Open-RMF platform and current use instances the place it has been deployed. Intrinsic can even current a roadmap about the way forward for Open-RMF and interoperability and a few of its newest instruments and capabilities, together with:
- Multi-agent planning framework – Mapf is a library for cooperative path discovering
- Task Management – the newest enhancements together with a versatile process framework to permit customized process definitions, multi-phase duties, prioritization and extra
- Site Editor – a desktop or internet utility to visualise and edit massive deployment websites
- Crowd Simulation – a plugin to simulate human actors with a number of behaviors
- Obstacle Detectors – packages that infer the presence of obstacles from sensor inputs together with LIDAR or 2D/3D cameras
Breakout Session: Designing Surgeon-Level Haptic Sensing for Surgical Robotics
Robert Brooks, CEO, Forcen
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Force and torque sensing play key roles in enabling surgical robotics, together with on the tip of the instrument, trocar location/tissue contact, surgeon collaboration and the surgeon interface. During this session, attendees will study 13 core specs for haptic sensors and the present state-of-the-art of what’s attainable. This speak will element greatest practices for implementing haptic sensors into surgical robots, together with:
- Thermal compensation and concerns below surgical drapes
- Grounding & shielding inside ultra-compact robotic joints
- Engineered cable assemblies for high-flex, multidimensional, tight-bend software
How customizable cobot design allows success of your surgical robotics firm
Speakers: Gene Matthews, Senior Product Manager, Kollmorgen; Dr. Jindong Tan, President and Founder, Azure Medical Innovation
1:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Collaborative robots and AI have gotten more and more vital for surgeons to carry out repetitive and exact management duties. But surgical functions have distinctive efficiency and certification necessities that aren’t out there within the present cobot market. This presentation goals to assist eradicate limitations to picking personalized surgical robots, in addition to assist surgical robotics firms construct out their specs in order that they’ll deal with medical functions. This speak can even deal with vital engineering concerns when specifying surgical software wants on collaborative options, AI integration within the surgical movement, and certification necessities:
- What are the distinctive necessities for cobots in surgical functions?
- How do key elements reminiscent of frameless motors decide efficiency?
- How do cobots and AI-enabled imaginative and prescient influence surgical movement?
- How personalized design can influence efficiency, improvement cycle, and certification
Breakout Session: Sensor Calibration and SLAM to extend ODD & cut back BOM value
William Sitch, Chief Business Officer, Main Street Autonomy
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Autonomy and notion methods are constructed on the core elements of sensor calibration, localization, and mapping. Calibration requires targets and educated personnel and upkeep. Localization and mapping solely works in sure areas with costly sensor methods. These points drive larger robotic value, prohibit robotic deployments and constrain enterprise progress. This speak will element three improvements that resolve these issues.
Breakout Session: Simplification of Advanced Motion Control Using Integrated Servo Drives
Andrew Zucker, Mechatronics Engineer, Harmonic Drive
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
In trendy robotic functions, area comes at a premium. Power density continues to be a number one consider robotic functions, though it’s typically compromised by the cabling and {hardware} wanted to implement the facility and management methods. In this session, we’ll discover simplify the design of a robotic joint with out compromising efficiency, reliability, or superior movement management options that usually come at the price of cumbersome cabling and electronics.
Breakout Session: Developing General Purpose Robots That Push the Boundaries of Technology
Jeff Cardenas, CEO, Apptronik
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
New {hardware}, sensors, algorithms, and AI applied sciences have opened up the power to rethink how robots are developed to be used in unstructured environments. Using a primary rules strategy, Apptronik has used the identical platform to develop a spread of robots from exoskeletons to humanoids. This has resulted in reactive, compliant, light-weight, and inexpensive robots that may carry out a wide range of duties in current human environments. In this session, you’ll about Apptronik’s strategy to growing a platform for general-purpose robots, their use instances, and the long run viability of those methods.
Breakout Session: Developing a New Generation of Robots to Transform Care within the Home
Mike Dooley, CEO, Labrador Systems
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Across the globe, we live older for longer than ever earlier than. This is creating big calls for on caregivers, healthcare methods and societies total, the place many areas are already experiencing a labor scarcity disaster. Robotics can play a big position in serving to folks stay extra independently for longer.
To obtain this, robotics has to remodel in no less than two main methods. First, we have to develop robots that may scale to be inexpensive for private, 1-to-1 use, which is a dramatic change from most business robots at present. Second, making purposeful robots function autonomously in properties requires fixing for a lot better complexity, with way more various and difficult settings and use case eventualities.
In this presentation, Labrador Systems will stroll by the design and improvement of Retriever, a private robotic constructed from the bottom as much as function within the house, lighten the load of each day actions, lengthen the influence of caregivers, and in the end assist us stay extra independently as we age.
Breakout Session: Keys to Using ROS 2 and Other Frameworks for Medical Robots
Tom Amlicke, Software Systems Engineer, MedAcuity
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
What is one of the best architectural strategy to make use of when constructing medical robots? Is it ROS, ROS 2 or different open-source or business frameworks? The reply is, “it depends.” In this presentation, we’ll discover engineering questions regarding the stage of concern, danger, design controls, and proof on a few completely different functions of those frameworks. Looking at three hypothetical robotic methods, we’ll discover these approaches:
1. An software based mostly on the da Vinci Research Kit by regulatory clearance
2. ROS as take a look at instruments to confirm the software program necessities for a visible steering system
3. Commercial off-the-shelve robotic arm used for a medical software
Attending this session to discover ways to create trade-offs with these completely different architectural approaches and validate the supposed makes use of of those architectural approaches to make sure a profitable submission bundle on your FDA, EMA, or different regulatory approval.
Breakout Session: How to Cut Build Cycles in Half and Supercharge Robotics Development
Dave Evans, Co-Founder & CEO, Fictiv
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
When it involves new product improvement in robotics, there isn’t a silver bullet. But there are frequent and predictable bottlenecks and inefficiencies that forestall engineering groups from working at most productiveness that may be eradicated.
Attendees will be taught methods to beat these limitations and speed up improvement. Through inspiring success tales from industry-leading firms, together with Honeywell and Gecko Robotics, this speak will element how robotics groups shaved weeks and months off improvement cycles to drive improved high quality, velocity and time-to-market outcomes. Ultimately, attendees will go away with a transparent plan of motion on how they’ll remodel new product improvement.
Breakout Session: Coordinated Motion of a Manipulator and Mobile Base
Tiffany Cappellari, Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Robotics for large-scale fabrication or processing has relied on the power to understand what’s known as “coordinated motion.” This allows a robotic arm to work past its attain envelope by exact coordination with exterior axes. These exterior axes could also be linear rails, or rotational axes to increase the working envelop of the mixed robotic resolution. Mobile robots have additionally gained in adoption and use, however, even in pretty advanced cell manipulator options, coordinated movement is just realized by the connection of the manipulator and the bottom by way of an exterior monitoring machine. These options additionally usually make use of a “stop and go” strategy through which the cell base positions itself in a static pose first earlier than the commercial manipulator begins its operation, thus not demonstrating true coordinated movement.
Southwest Research Institute seeks to pursue a coordinated movement resolution that can allow richer steady processing past the usual attain of the manipulator with out the necessity to tie collectively the bottom and manipulator with an exterior monitoring machine, subsequently opening a brand new frontier of commercial cell robots that at present aren’t out there in {industry}.
Breakout Session: Innovation in Robotic Grasping
Speakers: Roy Belak, CEO, Nexera Robotics; Nathan Brooks, CTO, PickNik Robotics, Jeff Mahler, Co-founder and CTO , Ambi Robotics; Boston Dynamics
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Grasping and manipulation, the power to instantly and bodily work together with and modify objects within the atmosphere, is maybe the best differentiator between robotic methods and all different courses of automated methods. Many sorts of robots require the power to coordinate tactile, imaginative and prescient, and proprioceptive sensing to pick-up and function on all method of objects, with objectives starting from offering human-like dexterity and autonomous manipulation, to excessive precision repeatability, and on to superhuman energy and endurance. During this panel session, attendees will be taught of the newest greedy and manipulation applied sciences and methods commercially out there, in addition to options rising from the lab that can enable for entire new courses of robotics functions.
Breakout Session: Human Factor Design Considerations for Healthcare Robots
Speakers: Laura Birmingham, Associate Research Director, Emergo by UL; Alix Dorfman, Managing Human Factors Specialist, Emergo by UL
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Although human elements engineering touches many aspects of total system design, at its core, the follow facilitates the interplay between people and know-how; it aligns a system’s design with people’ cognitive and bodily capabilities and limitations to supply a secure and satisfying consumer expertise. Despite the extent of autonomy healthcare robotics applied sciences may provide, there’s all the time a human ingredient that requires consideration.
During this speak, the presenters will focus on human elements implications and concerns associated to the design of robotic healthcare know-how utilized in medical and non-clinical environments. The speak will describe how robotics disrupts the 4 key facets of design analyzed when supporting product improvement: the system’s touchpoints, supposed customers, supposed use atmosphere(s), and its supposed customers’ duties with the system. We will illuminate how such facets can and will affect design choices, in addition to greatest practices when conducting analysis throughout the regulated medical machine {industry}.
Breakout Session: Position suggestions for healthcare robotics
Astrid Stock, Product Manager, SIKO
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Healthcare robots are fairly completely different from their industrial counterparts. They don’t work in fenced-off areas, however reasonably aspect by aspect with their operators. With this in thoughts, security, accuracy, and measurement necessities have turn out to be extra vital in at present’s functions. Reliable management of the robotic’s place, alignment and motion is crucial. Rotary and linear encoders allow the place suggestions of the motor and ship very important data to the management.
This speak will illustrate completely different measurement rules (magnetic, glass, inductive) and clarify some great benefits of magnetic measurement. It will differentiate between absolute and incremental methods and can focus on the completely different interfaces from primary incremental TTL to absolute interfaces like CANopen or BiSS-C. Attendees can even study developments and necessities for compact designs and extremely built-in options.
Breakout Session: Unlocking New Applications for Mobile Robots
Speakers: Niels Jul Jacobsen, CEO, Capra Robotics; Steve Boyle CEO, Essential Aero; Amir Bousani, Founder and CEO, RGo Robotics; Mike Oitzman, Editor of Robotics, WTWH Media
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Traditional sensors and navigation stacks have enabled AGVs and AMRs to carry great worth to a finite set of indoor materials dealing with functions. But a wider set of further functions stays unsolved on account of limitations in tougher environments, together with outside, indoor/outside, areas with dynamic or repetitive options and the place cell robots should work together seamlessly along with people. The panelists will focus on how current know-how advances are setting the stage for the subsequent wave of innovation cell robots and share examples of thrilling new functions that can be unlocked.
Breakout Session: ASTM Standards for Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems
Adam Norton, Associate Director, NERVE Center, UMass Lowell
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Robotics and automatic methods utilized in many industries nonetheless lack adequate commonplace specs for interfaces, take a look at strategies for efficiency comparability, and practices for implementation. These gaps can stifle {industry} adoption and innovation.
The ASTM F45 Committee on Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems is working to fill these gaps by the event of normal terminology, practices, classifications, guides, take a look at strategies, and specs relevant to those methods.
This speak will embody an outline presentation on the committee’s current and upcoming actions, in addition to an interactive dialogue session to collect {industry} suggestions on suggestions for future requirements developments to make sure alignment with the wants of the group, each from a developer and consumer perspective.
The Era of Robotic Unicorns
Eliot Horowitz, CEO & Founder, Viam Robotics
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
The robotics {industry} is at an inflection level as a result of software program developments can provide a full paradigm shift in scale a profitable robotics enterprise. At MongoDB, Horowitz’s information platform was the inspiration for dozens of $1B+ high-growth software program firms. That identical fashion of software program infrastructure development is now coming to robotics to assist a wave of high-growth robotics firms.
In this session, Viam and MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz will element why that is one of the best time to launch a robotics enterprise and the way a contemporary strategy to software program can get you from paper to prototype to manufacturing to profitable, scaled enterprise sooner than ever.
Breakout Session: Motion Control Trends for Healthcare Robots
Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Strategy, Performance Motion Devices
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
In this presentation we’ll present an replace on current developments in movement management applied sciences, functions, and merchandise which might be particularly vital for designers of medical analytical devices and working room tools.
The emphasis can be on cell & surgical robotics, affected person remedy tools, and advances in actuators and place sensors which might be driving the subsequent era of movement management functions that ship extra accuracy, decrease remedy prices, and improved medical outcomes.
Prabh Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Strategy at Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD), will share his in depth expertise in digital movement management and can lead this dialogue designed to be attention-grabbing for each engineers and medical practitioners alike.
Healthcare Robotics Startup Showcase
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
MassRobotics, FESTO, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, MITRE, Novanta and different key gamers within the healthcare and robotics area not too long ago initiated the Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program. The aim is to advance healthcare robotics firms by offering the connections, steering and assets they should develop and succeed.
During this session, attendees will hear pitches from the next seven healthcare robotics startups at present within the catalyst program: Able Human Motion, Acumino, Andromeda, Maestro Surgical, Robot on Rails, Unlimited Robotics and Zeta Surgical
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Opening Keynote: The Next Decade in Robotics
Marc Raibert, Executive Director, AI Institute
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
This hearth chat with Marc Raibert will focus on alternatives for the robotics {industry} and an important and troublesome challenges going through the creation of superior robots. It can even describe how the brand new Boston Dynamics AI Institute is pushing the bounds of technological innovation to unravel these challenges.
Keynote: The Future of Surgical Robotics
Martin Buehler, Global Head of Robotics R&D, Johnson & Johnson MedTech
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Johnson & Johnson, one of many world’s main healthcare firms, provides an inside take a look at the end-to-end improvement of its Monarch and Ottava robotics platforms, in addition to technique and innovation cadence throughout surgical robotics for MedTech.
Breakout Session: Guerilla Product Development for Robotics
Ted Larson, CEO, OLogic
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Based on years growing quite a few robots for firms internationally, Ted Larson, CEO of OLogic, a Silicon Valley-based robotics design and improvement companies agency, will define the steps in his guerilla product improvement program, a novel engineering strategy for growing robots. The speak will focus on the ideas underlying the product improvement method and supply particular examples of how the method has been used for the event of assorted robotic and shopper electronics merchandise. He will use particular case research to element how varied business robotics firms.
Breakout Session: Battery Power for Mobile Robotics – Guidelines & Solutions
Dan Friel, Battery Systems Specialist, VARTA
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Battery choices for cell robots are vital for reaching energy autonomy, however they are often advanced:
- How a lot capability is required?
- Where can I put the battery?
- What is one of the best cost technique?
In this session, attendees will be taught the solutions to those questions and extra. Detailed data for designers who want dependable moveable energy for cell robots can be supplied. Additional matters lined embody system concerns reminiscent of non-motive hundreds, battery placement points, and design for re-generative braking charging. Also mentioned can be wired and wi-fi charging professionals and cons, plus the trade-offs between quick, fast charging and once-per-shift charging methodologies.
Breakout Session: The Rise of Cobots in Healthcare
Brad Porter, Founder & CEO, Collaborative Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Robotics is all about main change. To understand the true potential of robotics requires a daring imaginative and prescient pushed top-down that aligns R&D groups, operations, finance, and world IT, whereas additionally requiring a deep deal with the main points of profitable particular person deployments. In this speak, Brad Porter will share his perspective on how quickly collaborative robots, with extra human-like functionality and a better potential to collaborate with people, are coming and the brand new challenges and alternatives they are going to current in healthcare.
Breakout Session: Using Simulation to Design and Develop Autonomous Robots
Gerard Andrews, Product Marketing, Robotics, NVIDIA
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Warehouse logistics and superior manufacturing are more and more utilizing robotics as a vital a part of their automation methods. They can enhance operational effectivity, enhance security, and assist firms deal with the persistent labor shortages which might be being noticed throughout the globe. Developing these clever robotic methods, nonetheless, is a fancy, difficult, and dear enterprise. Thankfully, superior simulation instruments can be found to engineers that may velocity the design, improvement, and testing processes.
This speak will describe the various methods NVIDIA Isaac Sim can be utilized to speed up the event and deployment of robots, together with superior AI and laptop imaginative and prescient. Specifically, attendees will find out how simulation can take a look at robotic functions in photo-realistic, bodily correct digital twin environments. In addition, the robots will be positioned in more and more advanced simulations involving digital people and fleets of robots to optimize operational KPIs. This session is designed as an introduction to photo-realistic 3D simulation for robots and is acceptable for all ranges.
Breakout Session: Launching Mobile Manipulation Robots in Hospitals
Siddhartha Banerjee, Lead Robotics Engineer, Diligent Robotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Over the years, robots have made big strides within the cell transport area in addition to warehouse automation. However, cell manipulation robots working round folks in semi-structured environments are nonetheless few and much between. Diligent Robotics is pushing the boundaries of socially-aware cell manipulation by deploying robots into hospitals. This speak will cowl the challenges of a startup placing Moxi, a socially-aware cell manipulation platform, right into a semi-structured atmosphere with folks (i.e. hospitals). It will embody classes discovered and key takeaways in addition to insights into healthcare automation given the rise of COVID-19 and the influence of labor shortages.
Form and Function Challenge Winners Announced
12:30 PM
Breakout Session: Oxidizing Your Software Development: Rust for Robots
Zach Goins, Senior Autonomy Software Engineer, Scythe Robotics
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
For a very long time, robotics software program improvement has been pressured to make the selection between secure software program and quick software program. Early on, Scythe Robotics selected a 3rd path: Rust, the brand new programming language that promised a break from that dichotomy. It was a lonely and daring alternative on the time, nevertheless it has paid big dividends.
Scythe Robotics, a developer of business autonomous lawnmowers, will focus on its determination to make use of Rust and a few learnings alongside the best way. It will focus on the way it benefited from Rust’s strengths to construct a robotic software program platform that’s each dependable and performant, whereas nonetheless enabling high-velocity improvement. For instance, leveraging one of the best elements of each ROS and Rust is feasible with the mature rosrust crate, which permits engineers to utilize current ROS instruments in addition to the broader crates.io bundle ecosystem. Further, instantly integrating with different current C/C++ software program is simple as effectively, enabling reuse of confirmed libraries and device-specific options like compute accelerators and different C/C++ platform SDKs.
Scythe’s fast progress is, in no small half, as a result of strengths of Rust and the arrogance it has unlocked for builders to maneuver quick and construct issues reliably. This speak can be a information for others seeking to oxidize and speed up their software program improvement course of.
Breakout Session: Building Production-level Robots for Farming
Thomas Palomares, CTO & Co-Founder, FarmWise
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Vegetable farming nonetheless depends on labor-intensive processes. Weed management particularly, which is vital to make sure good yields, is generally taken care of by hand crews who stroll the sphere with hoes. After prototyping for five years within the epicenter of lettuce manufacturing in North America, FarmWise is about to launch its first business robotic weeder. This machine can detect crops from weeds and mechanically uproot the undesired crops with excessive precision utilizing deep studying and actuation management. This speak will stroll you thru the workforce’s journey and learnings from the primary demo to the architectural choices behind their new product.
Breakout Session on Legged Locomotion
Boston Dynamics
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Breakout Session: From Product Idea to Robotic Healthcare Solution – An Overview
Tobias Luksch, Manager, R&D, Robotics, ITK Engineering
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
It is an extended highway with quite a few hurdles to take a medical robotic from an preliminary thought to a licensed product. To obtain this, some vital questions should be answered, reminiscent of:
- What is the supposed use?
- What is the authorized framework?
- What are the principle dangers?
- Which strategies can be utilized to guage ideas, to develop prototypes and to confirm the ultimate product?
This session will give an outline of the important steps required to show a product thought right into a market-ready healthcare robotic. Attendees can be supplied with sensible recommendation on implement these steps, in addition to a European perspective on the regulatory facets of the product life cycle.
Breakout Session: Magnetic Robots for Diagnosis and Surgery
Giovanni Pittiglio, Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Robotics has the potential to democratize healthcare by complementing a surgeon’s expertise and guaranteeing constant high quality of care. With the goal of lowering ache, discomfort and limiting disruptive interplay with the anatomy, delicate magnetic robots are a novel, rising resolution. This know-how can assure distant actuation, which equates to smaller measurement and softer gadgets. This speak will introduce the potential for magnetic delicate robots in overcoming the principle limitations of other approaches, reminiscent of minimally-invasive surgical procedure which is troublesome to scale as a result of want for extremely expert personnel. The session will focus on a spread of functions magnetic robots can cowl in healthcare, with a deal with prognosis and surgical procedure. The fundamental challenges and future analysis objectives are launched and reviewed.
Breakout Session: Motion Control and Robotics Opportunities
Speakers: Dave Rollinson, Co-Founder, HEBI Robotics
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Breakout Session: Using Emulation to Accelerate the Development of Wearable Machines
Josh Caputo, Founder, President & CEO, Humotech
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Emulation is an idea that can be acquainted to anybody engaged within the improvement of computing methods (or followers of retro gaming), however do you know analysis & improvement teams world wide are leveraging the strategy to develop extra customized and superior prosthetics, orthotics, exoskeletons, wearable robotics, and extra?
Wearable methods are expensive to prototype and troublesome to good, so it’s essential for this burgeoning {industry} to reimagine R&D processes to unlock better effectivity, throughput, and extra wildly profitable merchandise. Learn extra concerning the alternatives, challenges, and revolutionary approaches being explored in the direction of growing know-how that augments human biomechanics and will in the future be accessible to anybody in search of a lift to their bodily efficiency.
Future of Autonomy in Robotics
Ryan Gariepy, Co-Founder & CTO, Clearpath Robotics & OTTO Motors
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
From vacuums to quadrupeds to self-driving vehicles, robots have gotten more and more bodily succesful, clever and cost-effective. As with any rising {industry}, the earliest innovators didn’t have the luxurious of a long time of basic data and greatest practices out there to them. They constructed from the bottom up and discovered the laborious method what to not do.
Today, we’re getting into a brand new period of robotics. The most profitable robotics firms of the subsequent decade received’t be those constructing from scratch. They’ll construct on current platforms which have been hardened to unravel very particular issues, together with issues in autonomy, fleet administration, simulation, and extra all through the robotics stack.
In this presentation, the viewers will find out how robotics improvement has been completed not too long ago, what’s altering, and what’s coming within the subsequent decade from an skilled with fifteen years of expertise in robotic improvement and deployment throughout a wide range of industries. Market expectations surrounding robotic capabilities, safety and privateness, and robustness and security have gotten more and more troublesome for brand spanking new entrants to match. Nevertheless, a wide range of market forces are making constructing robots cheaper and simpler than ever earlier than, and demand for robotics has by no means been larger!
Just as a brand new software program firm at present wouldn’t construct its personal cloud computing platform, and as an alternative would use AWS, the subsequent era of robotics firms aren’t going to start out with a hodgepodge of ROS nodes and customized circuit boards. It is extremely possible that a number of the world’s largest robotics firms haven’t even been based but!
Closing Keynote: Developing Robots for Final Frontiers
Nicolaus Radford, CEO, Nauticus Robotics
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Space is usually known as the “final frontier.” But Nicolaus Radford and the workforce at Nauticus Robotics imagine the world’s oceans are of the utmost near-term precedence (and largely unexplored) closing frontier. Founded by former NASA engineers, Nauticus is main the best way by growing novel ocean robotic platforms for unprecedented methods of working in and exploring the aquatic area, whereas difficult the less-than-desirable and archaic paradigm of the legacy {industry}. The firm’s imaginative and prescient is to turn out to be probably the most impactful ocean robotics firm and to disrupt the present ocean companies paradigm by the mixing of autonomous robotic applied sciences. The deep sea is huge, stuffed with potential, and but stays largely as uncharted as area itself – and Nauticus is on the forefront of unlocking its potentialities.
This keynote will chart Radford’s journey from growing humanoid robotics for area and leveraging that have to kind Nauticus and its revolutionary ocean robotics portfolio. His work at NASA closely influenced the developments at Nauticus as the corporate develops robots able to aiding in nationwide safety, repairing oil pipelines, and inspecting windfarms — all whereas considerably lowering emissions and hazards to human counterparts. During his keynote, Radford will present insights about each environments, focus on the enterprise and know-how of Nauticus’ present work and clarify his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for ocean know-how and robotics.