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RoboBusiness, which takes place October 18-19 on the Santa Clara Conference Middle, at present introduced its full convention agenda. Based in 2004, RoboBusiness is the highest occasion about overcoming the technical challenges of creating business robots. RoboBusiness is produced by the identical firm behind The Robotic Report and Robotics Summit & Expo.
There shall be 60-plus audio system within the convention, a startup workshop, the Pitchfire robotics startup competitors, a profession honest, networking receptions and extra. There may also be 100 exhibitors on the showfloor showcasing their newest enabling, services and products from to assist clear up your robotics improvement challenges.
RoboBusiness shall be co-located with the Subject Robotics Engineering Discussion board, an occasion targeted on tips on how to efficiently develop robots that function in wide-ranging, outside, dynamic environments. Additionally co-located with RoboBusiness is DeviceTalks West, the premier {industry} occasion for medical know-how professionals, presently in its ninth 12 months. Each occasions entice engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical know-how backgrounds.
Early chicken charges for full convention passes are $395 till August 18th. Expo-only passes are simply $75 and educational reductions can be found. 
The entire agenda for RoboBusiness is beneath. You may also view your entire RoboBusiness agenda right here and register right here.
Oct. 17
Welcome Reception
5-7 PM
Oct. 18
Opening Keynote: State of Humanoid Robotics Improvement
Geordie Rose Co-Founder & CEO of Sanctuary AI, Jeff Cardenas Co-Founder & CEO of Apptronik, Jonathan Hurst Co-founder and Chief Robotic Officer of Agility Robotics
9:30-10:15 AM
Step into the long run as this keynote panel explores the outstanding developments and present panorama of humanoids. Humanoids have traditionally been relegated to robotics analysis labs to assist push the boundaries of legged locomotion and management methods. Nevertheless, the tides are altering, and this panel will discover the technological breakthroughs which can be propelling humanoids into the actual world. Achieve firsthand insights into the challenges and alternatives that lie forward and uncover which industries are poised to be early adopters of those outstanding creations.
Keynote: Robotics Are Serving to to Feed the World
Sarah Schinckel Director of Rising Applied sciences, John Deere
10:15 AM – 10:55 AM
Farmers are up towards a monumental problem: feeding a rising inhabitants with much less accessible land, labor, and assets. The world’s inhabitants is anticipated to achieve practically 10 billion by 2050, growing the worldwide meals demand by 50%. Nevertheless, general employment of agricultural employees is barely projected to develop by 1% by 2029, slower than common for all occupations. Superior robotics are important to serving to farmers upskill restricted labor and carry out exact duties at scale. Robotics are additionally the important thing to bringing autonomy and automation to the farm. At this time, farmers use highly-automated machines to organize the soil, plant, spray, and harvest. With continued robotic innovation, farmers can carry out duties quicker and with fewer assets to offer the meals, gas, and fiber our world wants. This presentation will discover the worth robotics carry to the farm and what different industries can be taught from its purposeful use case in agriculture.
Unlocking New Purposes in Warehouse Case Dealing with
Craig Salvalaggio, President, Utilized Manufacturing Applied sciences
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Warehouse automation is a rising pattern, and it includes the complexity of mixing supplies dealing with gear, sensors, conveyance, and software program to resolve these challenges at very excessive speeds. Labor challenges proceed to impression the rising warehousing and e-commerce markets so we should look to establish best-in-class applied sciences that may clear up the complexity within the warehouse. The warehouse of the long run contains extra environment friendly selecting and sorting know-how, with fewer errors and elevated reliability whatever the packaging.
On this session, Salvalaggio will break down the completely different descriptions of blended product palletizing and depalletizing and describe how imaginative and prescient know-how and software program create new purposes inside the warehouse. He’ll break down case research of robotically inducting instances into an automatic storage-based system.
Attendees will study:

Challenges related to blended load palletizing and depalletizing
Actual-world examples for pallet to storage case dealing with options
Imaginative and prescient enabling know-how for de-palletizing and case-handling options

Movement Management Fundamentals for Humanoids & Exoskeletons
Tom S. Wooden Frameless Motor Specialist at Kollmorgen; Kyle Hanley Subject Gross sales Engineer at Kollmorgen
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
With the fast developments in robotics know-how, labor shortages, and the growing older inhabitants, the demand for humanoids and exoskeletons with enhanced effectivity and efficiency has grown. Humanoids and exoskeletons are more and more utilized in various purposes, together with healthcare, manufacturing, building, and customer support sectors. This necessitates extremely environment friendly, exact, and highly effective electrical motors to assist replicate human-like actions precisely and improve human actions.
Prioritizing efficiency, robotics startups usually defer value and scalability concerns. Sustaining the price side of SWaP-C (Dimension, Weight, Energy, and Value) poses challenges. To satisfy evolving necessities, deciding on the fitting motor resolution turns into essential.
On this session, three crucial questions shall be addressed to assist engineers choose the optimum motor design and measurement for his or her robots:

What are the challenges related to creating humanoids and exoskeletons for cell purposes?
How does choosing the proper movement options handle these challenges, particularly when scaling to commercialization whereas sustaining value viability?
How do I specify the correct everlasting magnet motor to enhance effectivity and working time?

A VC’s Perspective on the State of Robotics Funding
Sanjay Aggarwal, Enterprise Associate, F-Prime Capital
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Over the past 5 years, the robotics {industry} has witnessed the rise and fall of autonomous autos as a class. On the similar time, we’ve seen the emergence of a brand new class generally known as “vertical robotics,” the place corporations deal with industry-specific vertical use instances. Early successes have centered round logistics, protection and safety, and medication. The autonomous autos class yielded a greater understanding of tips on how to construct profitable robotics corporations, and educated a brand new technology of skilled entrepreneurs and operators within the robotics house.
Aggarwal will talk about what to anticipate within the robotics {industry} within the coming 5 years, the way it will proceed to increase, with an growing deal with vertical use instances, notably in rising fields like agriculture, building, mining, meals, and lab and pharma. As well as, Sanjay will talk about how the hurdles dealing with the autonomous car {industry} and the way M&A exercise from incumbent OEMs shall be a key indicator of success for vertical robotics.
Off-roading Robots: Bringing Autonomy to Out of doors Environments
Jack Morrison, Co-Founder & CEO, Scythe Robotics
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Constructing robots to function in unstructured, off-road environments presents challenges that differ from these dealing with indoor cell robots and autonomous on-road autos. Off-road robots have to be rugged sufficient to face as much as each their outside environments and the distinctive duties they’re executing.
Sensors should work in all potential working circumstances. Software program processing have to be tailor-made to the duty at hand. And off-road purposes – like chopping thick grass, harvesting, or bulldozing – might be extremely energy intensive, which usually forces energy financial savings in all different potential areas.
Utilizing classes realized from creating and deploying Scythe’s M.52 all-electric, totally autonomous business garden mower, this speak will share the crucial ways in which unstructured environments affect {hardware}, notion, and software program design choices for off-road robots.
Manufacturing-level Robotics for Farming
Greg Chiocco, VP of Product, FarmWise
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Vegetable farming nonetheless depends at present on labor-intensive processes. Weed management specifically, which is crucial to make sure good yields, is usually taken care of by hand crews who stroll the sector with hoes. After prototyping for five years within the epicenter of lettuce manufacturing in North America, farm robotics firm FarmWise launched its first business robotic weeder. This machine can detect crops from weeds and mechanically uproot the undesired vegetation with excessive precision utilizing deep studying and actuation management. This speak will stroll you thru the staff’s journey and learnings from the primary demo to the architectural choices behind the brand new product.
New Alternatives for AI, 3D Printing and Digital Twins in Manufacturing and Intralogistics
Juan Aparicio, President, Robota Labs
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Adopting robotic automation is historically a particularly costly, extremely complicated, and time-consuming course of that have to be approached as a major capital undertaking. Nevertheless, latest advances in synthetic intelligence, 3d printing and digital twins unlock new alternatives for producers and methods integrators alike. Juan Aparicio has spent his profession discovering new purposes for AI in automation. Be part of this session, the place Juan will share the latest improvements which can be lowering the price of deployments and accelerating timelines. Most significantly, Juan will separate the hype from the actual world purposes, and supply precise examples on how these applied sciences are altering robotic automation at factories everywhere in the US.
Fundamentals of Designing AMRs
Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Technique, Efficiency Movement Gadgets; Amir Bousani, CEO, RGo Robotics; Mike Oitzman, Editor, Robotics, WTWH Media (Extra audio system to return)
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
This panel will deal with the elemental rules of designing autonomous cell robots (AMRs). It can cowl key elements comparable to locomotion, notion, planning, management and intelligence. Attendees will hear from {industry} leaders who may also emphasize the importance of security, robustness, and scalability in design, offering a complete understanding of the foundational ideas wanted for profitable develop AMRs for numerous purposes.
Robotics Startup Bootcamp: Suggestions of the Commerce
Joyce Sidopoulos, Co-Founder and Chief of Operations, MassRobotics; Aaron Capron, Associate, Finnegan (extra audio system to return)
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Beginning a robotics firm, in addition to rising and scaling, has many challenges. The Robotics Startup Boot Camp will present “suggestions of the commerce” and embrace discussions across the many widespread challenges that may make or break an organization alongside the way in which. Matters will embrace: authorized formation, dilutive and non-dilutive investments, IP and patents, path to manufacturing, greatest practices in accounting, when to carry on advertising, gross sales, & HR specialists, and fundraising & exits.
Superior Subject Robotics Improvement Techniques
Spencer Krause, President & CEO, SKA Customized Robots and Machines
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Constructing and testing subject robots is difficult. Challenge timelines, tuning points, budgetary restraints, and even crashes (each literal and figurative) could cause setbacks. There are a variety of ways robotics builders can use to scale back the danger of an costly and/or harmful failure, together with breaking out particular person subcomponents for testing and electrical or software program integration, constructing standalone prototypes of subsystems, utilizing a smaller, lower-cost robotic to behave as a surrogate for a full-scale system and simulation. This speak will discover a few of these improvement methodologies, when they’re acceptable, and tips on how to make use of them.
Creating Amphibious Robots
Nicolas Olmedo, Chief Know-how Officer, Copperstone Applied sciences
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Robots have exhibited appreciable utility in accessing distant and difficult areas, whereby the deployment of human employees is impractical as a result of related dangers and exorbitant bills. Notably within the realm of hazardous areas, comparable to mine tailings deposits, robots have confirmed invaluable in conducting geotechnical investigations, water surveys and sampling.
All-terrain amphibious robots have emerged as a viable resolution for facilitating knowledge assortment and measurements pertaining to environmental monitoring, enhancing mining processes, estimating waste quantity, and making certain legislative compliance. This speak will dive into the varied challenges concerned with creating amphibious robots, together with how they’re in a position to traverse a various vary of terrains, together with open water, sludge, muds, snow, and numerous varieties of floor surfaces in all climate circumstances.
Robotics in China
Georg Stieler, Managing Director, Asia, Stieler Know-how & Advertising Consultants
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
The Chinese language robotics {industry} has by no means been so thrilling. Final 12 months, each second industrial robotic on the planet was offered in China. The market is now setting main tendencies in industrial automation: first within the manufacture of electronics and now in electrical automobiles, batteries and photovoltaics. As a result of the nation is a frontrunner in these areas, corporations there are benefiting from corresponding economies of scale and studying results.
Lately, home producers have more and more moved into areas beforehand reserved for international robotic producers. One cause for this has been provide chain issues on the worldwide prime 4, but in addition technical advances at some home producers.
In comparison with Europe and the U.S., there are extra engineers accessible, each on the developer and system integrator aspect. Along with the native provide chain that has developed in recent times, this allows shorter product cycles and drastically decrease prices for machine imaginative and prescient, robots and peripheral merchandise. Resulting from fierce value competitors of their house market, Chinese language producers are additionally more and more trying overseas. On the similar time, the political atmosphere is making the market much less and fewer clear for foreigners.
This speak will present insights into the most recent developments in robotics in China and what might be anticipated from there.
Enhancing Actuator & EOAT Efficiency with Electroadhesive Know-how
Stuart Diller, CEO & Co-founder, ESTAT Actuation
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Simplified Subject Calibration and Dependable GPS-Intermittent Localization
William Sitch, Chief Enterprise Officer, Principal Avenue Autonomy
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Robotic sensor calibration is a frustration that may restrict your business deployments. Calibration usually must occur in a managed atmosphere, with checkerboards, fiducials, or targets, and engineers current to run the cal course of.
This speak will dive into sensor calibration in unstructured environments that don’t have checkerboards or probably even any engineers. It can additionally clarify tips on how to obtain highly-accurate 6 degree-of-freedom pose estimates with or with out GPS.
Classes Realized Deploying Cell Robots on Farms
Charlie Andersen, CEO, Burro
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Cell robots are more and more getting used within the agricultural {industry}. Throughout this session, you’ll hear from a pioneer within the agricultural robotics {industry}, with huge expertise creating and deploying cell robots on working farms. The first goal of Burro cell robots is to help within the transportation of products, assuaging the workload of farm laborers and enhancing the general effectivity of farm operations.
Designing the Warehouse of the Future
Rob Thyen, SVP, Gross sales Options and Interim CIO, GXO Logistics
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
The worldwide marketplace for warehousing is estimated to whole over $400 billion, however lower than 5% of that market is automated. Nevertheless, the growing complexity of provide chains, together with growing strain on profitability from rising prices and competitors for patrons and labor, has created demand for warehouses with tech ecosystems — networks of robotics and software program designed to optimize security, effectivity and profitability.
In 2023, an instance of such a tech ecosystem was launched within the U.S. The positioning contains one of many largest deployments of robotics in logistics and an industry-first mixture of state-of-the-art automation. The know-how options had been chosen to optimize returns operations, also referred to as reverse logistics, for a client electronics firm, and custom-designed to deal with a excessive charge of throughput at minimal value, whereas growing accuracy and productiveness, reducing prices, and elevating profitability for the shopper. The warehouse is able to processing 50,000 digital gadgets per day with know-how that may choose a particular merchandise from over 2 million items of stock in seconds.
This session will spotlight the several types of know-how — together with automated storage and retrieval robots, robotic arms, GTP robots, in addition to knowledge analytics, a lot of them industry-first implementations — and the way they had been strategically built-in to create a state-of-the-art tech-ecosystem at this warehouse of the long run.
Movement Management Tendencies with Harmonic Drive
Speaker TBD
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competitors
Steve Crowe, Editor, The Robotic Report
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
The {industry}’s hottest robotics startups compete within the RoboBusiness Pitchfire Competitors for a $5,000 first-place prize and everlasting bragging rights. 5 startups ship 5-minute ‘pitches’ to a panel of judges describing their resolution, enterprise mannequin, worth proposition and extra. Judges choose a winner and two runners-up primarily based on the startup they imagine to be greatest primed for business success. Collaborating startups obtain invaluable suggestions from buyers, can community with {industry} leaders, get free passes to RoboBusiness and can seem on The Robotic Report Podcast.
Forging New Frontiers with Improvements in Mobility and Manipulation
Dave Rollinson, CTO, HEBI Robotics
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Robotics for subsequent technology purposes within the subject are sometimes a well-synchronized mixture of three key capabilities – mobility, manipulation and sensing. Of those three capabilities, robotic mobility and manipulation are particularly difficult as a result of the duties and workspaces are extremely variable, and infrequently unpredictable. Figuring out new approaches, and enabling robots to be quickly reconfigured, are key to unlocking the actual worth of automation within the subject.
On this session, HEBI Robotics will current latest modern approaches to mobility and manipulation which were included into robotic methods throughout a wide range of purposes and industries.
Examples embrace:
• An inchworm-like arm that navigates round confined areas by way of suction or magnets and deploys instruments in extraordinarily troublesome to achieve areas.
• An in-pipe crawler ‘practice’ that may be modified to suit a wide range of pipe sizes and deploy tooling / sensors in complicated pipe constructions with a number of bends.
• A multi-purpose cell robotic that may be reconfigured within the subject to help all kinds of sensors and tooling, and may even be adjusted within the subject to swap out several types of wheels and treads.
Full Convention Reception
5-7 PM
Oct. 19
Keynote: How Intuitive Is Creating Distance From Rivals
Dave Rosa, President, Intuitive
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Surgical robotics pioneer Intuitive is outpacing rivals within the {industry} by doubling down on its multi-port Da Vinci Robotic whereas additionally introducing new robotics applied sciences to fight lethal ailments. On this interview, we’ll hear how the corporate is constructing engineering and gross sales groups to carry its methods to extra hospitals within the US and overseas.
Keynote: Generative AI’s Affect on Robotics Improvement
Pras Velagapudi, VP of Innovation, Agility Robotics; Jeff Linnell, CEO & Founder, Formant; Ken Goldberg, William S. Floyd Jr Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley; Amit Goel, Director Product Administration, nvidia; Ted Larson, CEO, OLogic
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Generative AI is revolutionizing the software program {industry}, however how can this breakthrough be utilized to robotics? This keynote panel of robotics {industry} leaders will talk about the purposes of Giant Language Fashions (LLMs) and textual content technology purposes to robotics. It can additionally discover elementary methods generative AI might be utilized to robotics design, mannequin coaching, simulation, management algorithms and product commercialization.
The State of Autonomous Cell Manipulation
Manthan Pawar, World Product Supervisor, Autonomous Cell Robotics, Barcodes Group
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Cell manipulation faces the problem of market readiness and expensive in-house manufacturing of AMRs, robotic arms and software program for finish customers. Startups like IAM Robotics and different main corporations have shifted their focus in the direction of available, market-ready robotics use instances that supply the quickest returns on funding.
This speak will assess the present state of Autonomous Cell Manipulation (AMM), emphasizing the identification of efficient methods for enabling totally autonomous navigation, missions, and arm manipulation. Combining AMRs and perception-driven autonomous manipulation is the Holy Grail, creating a flexible robotics platform for numerous purposes.
Accelerating the Improvement of Autonomous Cell Robots
Shri Sundaram, Director of Product Administration, NVIDIA – Isaac Robotics Platform
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Cell robotic shipments are anticipated to climb from 251,000 models in 2023 to 1.6 million by 2028, with income forecast to leap from $12.6 billion to $64.5 billion within the interval. Regardless of the explosive adoption of robots, the intralogistics {industry} faces challenges. Historically, software program purposes for autonomous navigation are sometimes coded from scratch for every robotic, making rolling out autonomy throughout completely different robots complicated. Additionally, warehouses, factories and achievement facilities are huge, incessantly operating one million sq. ft or extra, making them arduous to map for robots and maintain up to date.
Given the present panorama, integrating autonomous cell robots (AMRs) into present workflows, fleet administration and warehouse administration methods might be difficult. This speak will current how these challenges might be overcome throughout mapping, improvement, and simulation for validation, deployment, optimization and fleet administration, whereas lowering prices and time to marketplace for deploying the subsequent technology of AMRs.
Why You Have to Work with Robotics Clusters
Ward Broom Catalyst, Superior Know-how and Improvement Middle – Enterprise Innovation Institute; Joyce Sidopoulos, Co-Founder and Chief of Operations, MassRobotics; Andra Keay, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics
2:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Robotics clusters act as facilitators and accelerators for robotics innovation, new enterprise formation, job creation and regional wealth technology. This panel options representatives from main robotics clusters will describe how clusters help robotics corporations and robotics communities, and by extension, profession alternatives. Matters coated within the panel will embrace:

Cluster as innovation engines
Clusters as startup facilitators
Partnering with robotics clusters
Conclusions and suggestions

Designing Offroad Autonomy Purposes With Built-in Simulation Workflows
Mihir Acharya, Sr. Technical Product Supervisor, Robotics and Autonomous Programs, MathWorks
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Creating autonomous off-road methods requires the collaboration of multi-disciplinary groups engaged on completely different know-how domains comparable to controls, notion, and movement planning. To facilitate this complicated course of whereas lowering the dangers and prices related to {hardware} testing, simulations are crucial.
This speak will showcase numerous eventualities from a building website to an open pit mine, demonstrating modeling and simulation workflows for autonomous off-road autos. Particularly, we’ll talk about the testing and optimization of autonomous algorithms by way of co-simulation utilizing robotics simulators and well-liked recreation engines. Attendees will acquire perception into the completely different phases concerned in an autonomous off-road car improvement undertaking and perceive how an built-in simulation workflow can improve cross-team collaboration.
Creating Robots for Higher People
Paolo Pirjanian, CEO & Founder, Embodied
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Socially and emotionally clever robots pose an unbelievable alternative not just for the market, however for our family members younger and outdated. Embodied has constructed a sophisticated social interface that allows human-like interplay: adjustments within the intonation of voice, smiling, studying physique language and eye contact, and extra with out lengthy, awkward pauses or the necessity for using fixed wake phrases.
Moxie the robotic has helped neurodivergent and neurotypical youngsters with social, emotional and cognitive improvement. This contains particular content material modules and conversations round making errors, studying, emotional regulation and recognition, making buddies, and extra. It has the power to acknowledge progress and understanding of matters, and may immediate youngsters when it detects the kid may benefit from additional improvement in an space. Moxie can be in a position to reply with eye contact and gesticulate with its arms, making for a extra plausible, private expertise.
This framework is being utilized to service extra populations, together with senior residents, adults with psychological sicknesses, neurodivergent adults, individuals experiencing loneliness, and extra. Dr. Pirjanian will clarify the concerns and developments going into this new iteration and supply an onstage demonstration.
Generative AI for Robotics
Mitch Tolson, Founder & CEO, Ally Robotics
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
There have been main enhancements with Generative AI as demonstrated by way of ChatGPT, Steady Diffusion, and different algorithms. These enhancements will ultimately impression areas of robotics improvement. This speak will evaluation the most recent tendencies, analysis, and impression of Generative AI on robotic and embrace examples of robotics corporations are leveraging Generative AI.
Challenges of Fundraising Panel
Sanjay Aggarwal, Enterprise Associate, F-Prime Capital; Paolo Pirjanian, CEO & Founder, Embodied (extra audio system to return)
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Fundraising for robotics corporations tougher in comparison with different sectors and applied sciences. This panel will carry collectively buyers and roboticists to debate the challenges and alternatives of elevating cash on your robotics firm. This panel will talk about the present state of robotics investments, how issues have modified and what to anticipate sooner or later.
The way to Quick Observe Improvement Robotics Software program and Cut back Prices
Shanif Service provider, Chief Product Officer, Numurus
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Edge-AI and robotics applied sciences are actually mainstream in industrial software program. However the method to constructing them has not modified since its early area of interest days. Surveys present industrial AI and robotics options carry as much as 35% of non-IP software program, growing software program prices and time to market.
Demand for industrial automation is rising, so the {industry} should handle the problem of time to market and prices. The earlier technique of a build-it-all method is now not a scalable path. To realize mainstream resolution adoption, we should rethink the method to software program improvement that reduces prices, will increase reuse, and frees engineers to deal with buyer wants.
The {industry} must establish areas of the software program stack which can be widespread and non-IP and transition these to a collaborative method the place capabilities are shared. The speaker will share a number of use instances the place organizations utilizing a collaborative method acquired merchandise to market quicker. Attendees can count on to achieve beneficial insights into navigating these challenges by way of a collaborative improvement method.
Closing Keynote Interview: Way forward for Surgical Robotics at Johnson & Johnson Medtech
Hani Abouhalka, Firm Group Chairman, Robotics & Digital Surgical procedure, Johnson & Johnson MedTech
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM