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Meet the Robotics Summit Keynotes

By Steve Crowe | March 16, 2018

WTWH Media and The Robot Report has announced the keynote lineup for the inaugural Robotics Summit & Showcase taking place May 23-24, 2018 at the Westin Waterfront in Boston, Massachusetts. The Robotics Summit & Showcase focuses the technical issues involved with the design, development, manufacture and delivery of commercial robotics and intelligent systems products and services.

Click here to see the Robotics Summit speaker lineup and agenda. Registration for the Robotics Summit & Showcase is open. Register today and save 20% with the Early Bird Registration Offer that ends on April 20.

Robotics Summit & Showcase keynote lineup includes:

Bipedal Locomotion and Autonomous Mobility
Damion Shelton, CEO, Agility Robotics

Developers of mobile robotics systems have a choice of technological approaches to support ground-based locomotion – wheels, tracks, and legged systems, among them. But only one class of locomotion – bipedalism – movement using two feet, is optimized for existing environments designed for human occupation and movement.

Damion Shelton, CEO of Agility Robotics, the developer of the Cassie bipedal robot, will describe the advantages of bipedal locomotion for autonomous mobility in unstructured, human populated environments. Possible use cases for bipedal robotics, as well as specific design, development and testing requirements for bipedal systems, will also be discussed.

Designing Mobile Picking Robots for E-Commerce Fulfillment
Adrian Kumar, VP Solutions Design North America, DHL Supply Chain

All e-commerce retailers, as well as third party logistics providers, understand that picking operations are a major contributor to the burgeoning cost of e-fulfillment. Increasing the level of automation in warehouses and distribution centers has proven to both decrease the costs of e-commerce fulfillment operations and improve efficiency.

DHL’s Adrian Kumar will describe how mobile service robots are supporting picking operations at fulfillment centers and warehouses, along with the processes to design, develop and install such systems. Real-world case studies will be used to highlight salient points.

Producing Commercial Class Robotics Systems: Challenges and Advanced Manufacturing Solutions
John Dulchinos, VP Global Automation and 3D Printing, Jabil

The development of commercial class robotics systems requires the mastery of multiple disciplines, and the resultant systems must be innovative, robust, and work as advertised. Yet even if these issues are addressed, many other significant, often unrecognized challenges related to product introduction and production must also be addressed.

John Dulchinos, VP, Digital Manufacturing for Jabil, the world’s 3rd largest contract manufacturer, will describe these go-to-market challenges, along with advanced manufacturing solutions that can be employed to best them. Topics include rapid prototyping, ensuring quality, designing for manufacturability, volume production, mass customization, supply chain management, fulfillment and more.

Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Transformational Innovation
John Lizzi, Executive Leader, Robotics, GE Global Research

Advancements in automation, robotics and intelligent systems, coupled with pervasive communication and deep analytics, make it possible for businesses to drive down costs, optimize performance and generate revenue.  However, as with any class of nascent technology, both the end-user and supplier communities are faced with rapid business change, continuous technological churn, and much uncertainty.

GE’s John Lizzi will describe the current state-of-the-art in robotics and supporting technologies, revealing the larger, repeating patterns of technological and business significance, while emphasizing the opportunities enabled by transformational innovation along the way.

Soft Robotics: Ongoing Research, Commercial Systems and Future Directions
George Whitesides, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Principal Investigator, Whitesides Research Group, Harvard University

The unassuming term “soft robotics,” robotic systems that exist at the intersection of robotics technology and materials chemistry, has recently made its way from the rarefied environs of academic journals and scholarly symposia and into the mainstream. George Whitesides will describe ongoing soft robotics research at Harvard’s Whitesides Research Group, as well as commercial class soft robotics systems currently on the market or nearly so. Topics related to materials, sensing, control and actuation will be discussed, along with how inherently flexible soft robotics systems can be engineered to provide for novel capabilities and support task versatility.

Marc RaibertBuilding Dynamic Robots
Marc Raibert, founder and CEO, Boston Dynamics

Raibert will give you an update on the company that makes those viral YouTube videos and go under the hood of its biped and quadruped robots that jump, run, balance and even do backflips. Raibert will give a status report on the robots and conduct a live demo of SpotMini, the company’s latest four-legged robot that handles objects, climbs stairs, and opens doors.

Speaking and Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on Robotics Summit & Showcase 2018 sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, download the prospectus and/or contact:

Mike Emich
[email protected]
508-446-1823

Scott McCafferty
[email protected]
310-279-3844

For additional information, please contact Dan Kara at [email protected] or Steve Crowe at [email protected]

About The Author

Steve Crowe

Steve Crowe is Editorial Director, Robotics, WTWH Media, and co-chair of the Robotics Summit & Expo. He joined WTWH Media in January 2018 after spending four-plus years as Managing Editor of Robotics Trends Media. He can be reached at [email protected]

Comments

  1. Kimberly MacAdam says

    March 17, 2018 at 10:58 am

    Hi Steve –

    I have a group of 10 Girl Scout Brownies who are earning their Robotics Badge (includes three badges: Designing/Coding/Showcasing). I’m wondering if I can bring these girls to the showcase component (so perhaps 45 minutes or so when the exhibit hall is open?). This would just be to expose them to the amazing array of ways robots are used, and to see adults in the real world applying new technologies, researching/building/selling them. They are very young (8 years old), but as the daughter of a vehicle design engineer I recall being inspired by his simulator research and believe in the importance of giving kids exposure to “real-world” experiences for the ideas we want them to engage in later in life. STEM has become a major part of the GS in the past several years, with new tech-based badges being introduced. If you think it would be OK for the girls to attend for the very limited showcase purpose, I’d really appreciate it. We are, of course, nonprofit and kids. So I could maybe pay $25/girl if that will help. And we would of course have several adult chaperones with the girls, keeping the visit short. Will be visiting Science Museum afterwards, with lunch. Thanks!
    -Kim
    734-649-1115

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