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RoboBusiness, which takes place October 18-19 on the Santa Clara Conference Middle, in the present day 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 will probably 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 growth challenges.
RoboBusiness will probably be co-located with the Subject Robotics Engineering Discussion board, an occasion targeted on the best way to efficiently develop robots that function in wide-ranging, out of doors, dynamic environments. Additionally co-located with RoboBusiness is DeviceTalks West, the premier {industry} occasion for medical know-how professionals, at the moment in its ninth 12 months. Each occasions appeal to 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 whole 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 exceptional 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 programs. Nonetheless, the tides are altering, and this panel will discover the technological breakthroughs which might be propelling humanoids into the true world. Achieve firsthand insights into the challenges and alternatives that lie forward and uncover which industries are poised to be early adopters of those exceptional 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 obtainable land, labor, and assets. The world’s inhabitants is anticipated to achieve practically 10 billion by 2050, growing the worldwide meals demand by 50%. Nonetheless, total employment of agricultural staff is just 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. Right now, 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, gasoline, and fiber our world wants. This presentation will discover the worth robotics deliver to the farm and what different industries can study 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 development, and it entails the complexity of mixing supplies dealing with gear, sensors, conveyance, and software program to unravel these challenges at very excessive speeds. Labor challenges proceed to affect the rising warehousing and e-commerce markets so we should look to determine best-in-class applied sciences that may clear up the complexity within the warehouse. The warehouse of the long run consists of extra environment friendly choosing and sorting know-how, with fewer errors and elevated reliability whatever the packaging.
On this session, Salvalaggio will break down the totally different descriptions of combined product palletizing and depalletizing and describe how imaginative and prescient know-how and software program create new functions inside the warehouse. He’ll break down case research of robotically inducting circumstances into an automatic storage-based system.
Attendees will find out about:

Challenges related to combined 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 functions, 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 associated fee facet of SWaP-C (Measurement, Weight, Energy, and Price) poses challenges. To fulfill evolving necessities, deciding on the appropriate motor resolution turns into essential.
On this session, three crucial questions will probably be addressed to assist engineers choose the optimum motor design and dimension for his or her robots:

What are the challenges related to creating humanoids and exoskeletons for cellular functions?
How does selecting the best movement options deal with 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 often called “vertical robotics,” the place firms concentrate on industry-specific vertical use circumstances. Early successes have centered round logistics, protection and safety, and medication. The autonomous autos class yielded a greater understanding of the best way to construct profitable robotics firms, and educated a brand new era 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 broaden, with an growing concentrate on vertical use circumstances, significantly 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 will probably be a key indicator of success for vertical robotics.
Off-roading Robots: Bringing Autonomy to Outside 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 cellular robots and autonomous on-road autos. Off-road robots have to be rugged sufficient to face as much as each their out of doors environments and the distinctive duties they’re executing.
Sensors should work in all doable working situations. Software program processing have to be tailor-made to the duty at hand. And off-road functions – like slicing thick grass, harvesting, or bulldozing – could be extremely energy intensive, which typically forces energy financial savings in all different doable areas.
Utilizing classes realized from creating and deploying Scythe’s M.52 all-electric, absolutely autonomous business garden mower, this speak will share the crucial ways in which unstructured environments affect {hardware}, notion, and software program design selections 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 in the present day on labor-intensive processes. Weed management specifically, which is crucial 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, farm robotics firm FarmWise launched 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 selections 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 an especially costly, extremely advanced, and time-consuming course of that have to be approached as a big capital venture. Nonetheless, current advances in synthetic intelligence, 3d printing and digital twins unlock new alternatives for producers and programs integrators alike. Juan Aparicio has spent his profession discovering new functions for AI in automation. Be a part of this session, the place Juan will share the current improvements which might be decreasing the price of deployments and accelerating timelines. Most significantly, Juan will separate the hype from the true world functions, and supply precise examples on how these applied sciences are altering robotic automation at factories all around the US.
Fundamentals of Designing AMRs
Prabhakar Gowrisankaran, VP of Engineering and Technique, Efficiency Movement Units; 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 concentrate on the basic rules of designing autonomous cellular robots (AMRs). It would 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 varied functions.
Robotics Startup Bootcamp: Ideas 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. Subjects will embrace: authorized formation, dilutive and non-dilutive investments, IP and patents, path to manufacturing, greatest practices in accounting, when to deliver on advertising, gross sales, & HR consultants, and fundraising & exits.
Superior Subject Robotics Improvement Ways
Spencer Krause, President & CEO, SKA Customized Robots and Machines
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Constructing and testing area robots is difficult. Venture timelines, tuning points, budgetary restraints, and even crashes (each literal and figurative) may cause setbacks. There are a selection 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 growth methodologies, when they’re acceptable, and the best way to make use of them.
Growing 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 places, whereby the deployment of human staff is impractical because 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 guaranteeing legislative compliance. This speak will dive into the varied challenges concerned with creating amphibious robots, together with how they’re capable of traverse a various vary of terrains, together with open water, sludge, muds, snow, and varied varieties of floor surfaces in all climate situations.
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 developments in industrial automation: first within the manufacture of electronics and now in electrical vehicles, batteries and photovoltaics. As a result of the nation is a frontrunner in these areas, firms there are benefiting from corresponding economies of scale and studying results.
Lately, home producers have more and more moved into areas beforehand reserved for overseas robotic producers. One cause for this has been provide chain issues on the worldwide prime 4, but additionally technical advances at some home producers.
In comparison with Europe and the U.S., there are extra engineers obtainable, each on the developer and system integrator facet. Along with the native provide chain that has developed in recent times, this permits shorter product cycles and drastically decrease prices for machine imaginative and prescient, robots and peripheral merchandise. Attributable to fierce worth competitors of their residence market, Chinese language producers are additionally more and more trying overseas. On the similar time, the political surroundings is making the market much less and fewer clear for foreigners.
This speak will present insights into the newest developments in robotics in China and what could 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, Major Road 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 surroundings, 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 doubtlessly even any engineers. It would additionally clarify the best way to obtain highly-accurate 6 degree-of-freedom pose estimates with or with out GPS.
Classes Discovered Deploying Cellular Robots on Farms
Charlie Andersen, CEO, Burro
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Cellular 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 cellular robots on working farms. The first goal of Burro cellular 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. Nonetheless, the growing complexity of provide chains, together with growing stress on profitability from rising prices and competitors for purchasers 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 location consists of one of many largest deployments of robotics in logistics and an industry-first mixture of state-of-the-art automation. The know-how options have been chosen to optimize returns operations, often known as reverse logistics, for a shopper electronics firm, and custom-designed to deal with a excessive fee 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 units per day with know-how that may choose a selected merchandise from over 2 million items of stock in seconds.
This session will spotlight the various kinds 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 have been strategically built-in to create a state-of-the-art tech-ecosystem at this warehouse of the long run.
Movement Management Developments 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 consider 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 era functions within the area 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 true worth of automation within the area.
On this session, HEBI Robotics will current current modern approaches to mobility and manipulation which have been integrated into robotic programs throughout a wide range of functions and industries.
Examples embrace:
• An inchworm-like arm that navigates round confined areas through suction or magnets and deploys instruments in extraordinarily tough to achieve areas.
• An in-pipe crawler ‘prepare’ that may be modified to suit a wide range of pipe sizes and deploy tooling / sensors in advanced pipe constructions with a number of bends.
• A multi-purpose cellular robotic that may be reconfigured within the area to assist all kinds of sensors and tooling, and may even be adjusted within the area to swap out various kinds of wheels and treads.
Full Convention Reception
5-7 PM
Oct. 19
Keynote: How Intuitive Is Creating Distance From Opponents
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 illnesses. On this interview, we’ll hear how the corporate is constructing engineering and gross sales groups to deliver its programs 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 functions of Massive Language Fashions (LLMs) and textual content era functions to robotics. It would additionally discover elementary methods generative AI could be utilized to robotics design, mannequin coaching, simulation, management algorithms and product commercialization.
The State of Autonomous Cellular Manipulation
Manthan Pawar, World Product Supervisor, Autonomous Cellular Robotics, Barcodes Group
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Cellular manipulation faces the problem of market readiness and dear in-house manufacturing of AMRs, robotic arms and software program for finish customers. Startups like IAM Robotics and different main firms have shifted their focus in direction of available, market-ready robotics use circumstances that provide the quickest returns on funding.
This speak will assess the present state of Autonomous Cellular Manipulation (AMM), emphasizing the identification of efficient methods for enabling absolutely autonomous navigation, missions, and arm manipulation. Combining AMRs and perception-driven autonomous manipulation is the Holy Grail, creating a flexible robotics platform for numerous functions.
Accelerating the Improvement of Autonomous Cellular Robots
Shri Sundaram, Director of Product Administration, NVIDIA – Isaac Robotics Platform
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Cellular robotic shipments are anticipated to climb from 251,000 items 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 functions for autonomous navigation are sometimes coded from scratch for every robotic, making rolling out autonomy throughout totally different robots advanced. Additionally, warehouses, factories and achievement facilities are monumental, continuously operating one million sq. ft or extra, making them exhausting to map for robots and preserve up to date.
Given the present panorama, integrating autonomous cellular robots (AMRs) into current workflows, fleet administration and warehouse administration programs could be sophisticated. This speak will current how these challenges could be overcome throughout mapping, growth, and simulation for validation, deployment, optimization and fleet administration, whereas decreasing prices and time to marketplace for deploying the following era 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 era. This panel options representatives from main robotics clusters will describe how clusters assist robotics firms and robotics communities, and by extension, profession alternatives. Subjects lined 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 Methods, MathWorks
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Growing autonomous off-road programs requires the collaboration of multi-disciplinary groups engaged on totally different know-how domains comparable to controls, notion, and movement planning. To facilitate this advanced course of whereas decreasing the dangers and prices related to {hardware} testing, simulations are crucial.
This speak will showcase varied eventualities from a building web site to an open pit mine, demonstrating modeling and simulation workflows for autonomous off-road autos. Particularly, we are going to talk about the testing and optimization of autonomous algorithms by means of co-simulation utilizing robotics simulators and fashionable recreation engines. Attendees will achieve perception into the totally different phases concerned in an autonomous off-road car growth venture and perceive how an built-in simulation workflow can improve cross-team collaboration.
Growing 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 previous. Embodied has constructed a complicated social interface that permits human-like interplay: modifications within the intonation of voice, smiling, studying physique language and eye contact, and extra with out lengthy, awkward pauses or the necessity for the usage of fixed wake phrases.
Moxie the robotic has helped neurodivergent and neurotypical youngsters with social, emotional and cognitive growth. This consists of particular content material modules and conversations round making errors, studying, emotional regulation and recognition, making buddies, and extra. It has the flexibility to acknowledge progress and understanding of subjects, and may immediate youngsters when it detects the kid may benefit from additional growth in an space. Moxie can also be capable of reply with eye contact and gesticulate with its arms, making for a extra plausible, private expertise.
This framework is being utilized to service further 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 means of ChatGPT, Secure Diffusion, and different algorithms. These enhancements will finally affect areas of robotics growth. This speak will evaluate the newest developments, analysis, and affect of Generative AI on robotic and embrace examples of robotics firms 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 firms tougher in comparison with different sectors and applied sciences. This panel will deliver 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.
Tips on how to Quick Monitor 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 strategy 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 deal with the problem of time to market and prices. The earlier methodology of a build-it-all strategy is not a scalable path. To achieve mainstream resolution adoption, we should rethink the strategy to software program growth that reduces prices, will increase reuse, and frees engineers to concentrate on buyer wants.
The {industry} must determine areas of the software program stack which might be widespread and non-IP and transition these to a collaborative strategy the place capabilities are shared. The speaker will share a number of use circumstances the place organizations utilizing a collaborative strategy obtained merchandise to market quicker. Attendees can count on to achieve beneficial insights into navigating these challenges by means of a collaborative growth strategy.
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