The 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo is next week in Boston. If you’re attending the conference and your passion is mobile systems, then don’t miss the session “Nuts & Bolts of Robotic Navigation.”
The session will be on Wednesday, April 30, at 1:45 p.m. ET and features a panel that will will discuss the latest in perception and navigation issues around mobile systems, including automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and autonomous vehicles (AVs).
We’ve assembled technical experts with practical coding and mobile robot deployment experience from across the industry:
- Sonali Deshpande, staff robotics software engineer at Relay Robotics
- William Sitch, chief business officer at Main Street Autonomy
- Garrett Place, business development manager of robotic perception technologies at ifm USA
- Andrea Okerholm Huttlin, senior staff software engineer at Collaborative Robotics
The goal of this session is to explore the essentials of robot navigation. Attendees can gain practical insights into sensing, best practices, SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), path planning, and obstacle avoidance for robust real-world applications.
It’s also a great opportunity to hear from your peers and learn about the challenges they’ve faced, and how they overcame it. Mike Oitzman, a senior editor at The Robot Report, will moderate the session.
We’ll save time at the end of the panel to answer audience questions.
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Navigate the Robotics Summit
The 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo will bring together more than 5,000 attendees focused on building robots for various commercial industries. Attendees can gain insights into the latest enabling technologies, engineering best practices, emerging trends, and more.
Keynote speakers will include:
- Aaron Saunders, the chief technology officer at Boston Dynamics
- James Kuffner, CTO of Symbotic
- Aaron Parness, director of applied science in robotics and AI at Amazon Robotics
- Daniela Rus, director of MIT CSAIL
- Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, the founder and CEO of PSYONIC
The show will have more than 50 educational sessions in tracks on AI, design and development, enabling technologies, healthcare, and logistics. The Engineering Theater on the show floor will also feature presentations by industry experts.
The expo hall will feature over 200 exhibitors showcasing the latest enabling technologies, products, and services that can help robotics engineers throughout their development journeys.
The Robotics Summit also offers numerous networking opportunities, a Career Fair, a robotics development challenge, the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards Gala, and more.
Co-located with the event is DeviceTalks Boston, the premier event for medical technology professionals, currently in its tenth year. Both events attract engineering and business professionals from a broad range of healthcare and medical technology backgrounds.
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