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BOSTON — WTWH Media, which produces The Robotic Report, has introduced that MassRobotics is the unique strategic associate of the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, which might be on Might 1 and a pair of on the Boston Conference and Exhibition Heart. In that function, MassRobotics is offering steering and is performing as a liaison to its community of companions, sponsors, and resident startups, in addition to to the worldwide robotics group.
“MassRobotics, being the most important robotics hub, sees nice worth in persevering with our partnership with The Robotic Report,” mentioned Tom Ryden, government director of MassRobotics. “We sit up for bringing a novel perspective to the summit. As a big occasion within the robotics area, we’re proud to take part and excited to showcase our improvements via a number of cubicles.”
Boston-based MassRobotics is a nonprofit robotics hub devoted to accelerating innovation and adoption within the area of robotics. The group supplies entrepreneurs and startups with the workspace and networking they should efficiently develop, prototype, take a look at, and commercialize the following era of robotics and linked gadgets.
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 ten startups will exhibit on the present flooring and can discus their journeys in a session on Might 1 at 4:15 p.m. ET.
Attire Robotics
brd BOT
Gopher Movement
Hominid X
Mapless AI
Oligo
Robotics 88
rStream
SIMPL Automation
Yard Robotics
“We’re excited to debut our first accelerator cohort on the Robotics Summit,” mentioned Marita McGinn, director of the MassRobotics Accelerator. “This showcase is particularly significant for us, because it represents a big milestone in our mission of serving to scale the following nice robotics corporations. Having the ability to current our cohort at an occasion attended by business leaders and roboticists underscores the worth and affect of our program in fostering innovation and driving developments within the area of robotics.”
“Technical founders can typically bounce to product-building mode earlier than intimately understanding their finish person and buyer,” she added. “Throughout this program, our startups will every full a minimum of 25 buyer discovery interviews, in an effort to hone in on their buyer ache and desires. Our purpose is to assist these good technical founders to bolster their enterprise acumen via this curriculum.”
A number of of MassRobotics’ resident startups will showcase their applied sciences in Startup Alley on the present flooring. MassRobotics may also host a session and sales space selling healthcare robotics startups from its Catalyst program.
Kind & Perform Robotics Problem to call winners at expo
For the second 12 months in a row, members within the MassRobotics Kind & Perform Robotics Problem will present their prototypes on the Robotics Summit & Expo present flooring. The problem referred to as for college groups to create a robotics venture that delivers a compelling design particular to its duties whereas performing a helpful operate.
The groups have come from world wide:
Cornell College
Harvard College
Kennesaw State College
Massachusetts Institute of Expertise
Northeastern College
Seoul Nationwide College/Mechanical Engineering/Biorobotics Lab
Stanford, College of Michigan, RPI
RPI
The Technical College of Kenya
Tufts College
College of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus)
College of Florida
College of Massachusetts Lowell
College of Massachusetts, Amherst
College of Michigan
College of Notre Dame
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
Wentworth Institute of Expertise
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Kind & Perform Robotics Problem additionally inspired collaboration between the college groups and MassRobotics companions offering state-of-the-art {hardware} and software program, together with AMD, Analog Units, Danfoss, Festo, Lattice, Mitsubishi Electrical, 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, Might 2, within the Engineering Theater on the Robotics Summit & Expo present flooring. As well as, attendees will be capable of vote for his or her favourite groups, and the winner will obtain a $1,000 Viewers Selection Award.
MassRobotics profession truthful to attach candidates and employers
On the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, MassRobotics will conduct a Robotics Engineering Profession Honest on Might 2 from 3:30 to six:00 p.m. ET. It’s meant to supply alternatives for job seekers to attach with producers of robots, synthetic intelligence, and machine studying applied sciences.
Previous profession festivals on the summit have drawn greater than 600 candidates, from latest graduates to skilled engineers, laptop scientists, imaginative and prescient specialists, mechatronics consultants, AI professionals, and extra. Hiring corporations can enter to take part.
Extra concerning 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 strategies and extra.
“The Robotics Summit & Expo demonstrates the worth of a world-class technical convention for these growing business robotics,” mentioned Steve Crowe, government editor for robotics at WTWH Media and chair of the Robotics Summit & Expo. “We’re thrilled to work with MassRobotics to assemble expertise and business leaders constructing the following era of robotics techniques and providers.”
Keynotes will characteristic 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 Analysis
Medtronic will display its distant robotic-assisted surgical system.
The Robotics Summit may also embody convention tracks on the automated warehouse and AI along with growth, enabling applied sciences, and healthcare. An Engineering Theater on the present flooring will characteristic extra shows on revolutionary techniques and use circumstances.
Greater than 130 exhibitors will present their applied sciences on the expo present flooring. The occasion is co-located with DeviceTalks Boston, which focuses on the event of medical gadgets and applied sciences.
On Wednesday, Might 1, the Robotics Summit & Expo will host the inaugural RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards Gala to rejoice this 12 months’s winners of the celebrated recognition. Tickets might be out there for this gala.
This 12 months’s summit may also current networking alternatives within the type of VIP and welcome receptions, an Expo Ground Tailgate, and a Combine and Mingle occasion, in addition to a brand new Ladies in Robotics Breakfast on Might 2.
Registration is now open for the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. An Tutorial Outreach Program affords reductions for attendees coming from schools, universities, and analysis establishments.
For sponsorship alternatives, go to the occasion web site or contact Colleen Sepich at csepich[at]wtwhmedia.com.
About WTWH Media
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WTWH’s Robotics Group produces The Robotic Report, Cell Robotic Information, and Collaborative Robotics Developments. These on-line technical, enterprise and funding information and data portals concentrate on robotics and clever techniques. WTWH Media additionally produces main in-person conferences together with the Robotics Summit & Expo and RoboBusiness.
Study from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and lots of extra.