The Robotics Summit & Expo will come to an end this afternoon, and we want to make sure you get the most out of the premiere event for commercial robotics developers.
Day 2 will start at 8:00 a.m. ET with the Women in Robotics Breakfast. The sold-out breakfast will include a talk from Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder and chief of operations at MassRobotics, and Mikell Taylor, head of robotics strategy at GM. It will be in Room 254 A-B.
At 9:05 a.m., Brian Gerkey, the board chair of Open Robotics and chief technology officer of Intrinsic, will lead the keynote talk “An Open Foundation for the Age of AI-Powered Robots.” This will be followed by a keynote from Taylor called, “What Makes a Robot Worthy?” The second keynote will start at 10:00 a.m.
On Day 2, the exhibit hall will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Robotics Summit & Expo will close at 3:30 p.m. with a final keynote, “Rewiring What’s Possible: A New Era of Human Potential.” During this talk, Noland Arbaugh will share what it means to become the first person to use a Neuralink brain-computer interface and how it has reshaped his independence, creativity, and connection to the world.
After the hall closes, the MassRobotics Career Fair will begin at 3:30 p.m. and last until 5:30 p.m.
Breakouts to catch in the morning on Day 2 of the Robotics Summit
Breakout sessions will start at 11:30 a.m. Today’s schedule includes:
- Designing Production-Ready Force & Torque Sensors for Next-Gen Robots: Ryan Young, the global head of engineering OEM sensors at HBK, will lead this session in Room 252 B.
- Lessons from Taking Robots Out of the Lab and Into the Field: Ariana Eisenstein, the founder and CTO of Pickle Robot, will kick off this discussion at 11:30 a.m. in Room 254 A.
- Productizing AI in Robotic Systems: This 11:30 a.m. panel will be held in Room 252 A. It will include Diego Brihuega, senior vice president of technology at Globant; Anders Beck, vice president of AI robotics products at Universal Robots; Dave Coleman, the founder and chief product officer at PickNik Robotics;, and Andy Lonsberry, the CEO of Path Robotics.
- Where AI Delivers in Material Handling: Chris Morgan, the senior director of R&D at Bastian Solutions, will start this talk at 11:30 a.m. in Room 251.
- Attention Please: A New Front End for Robot Conversation: Enzo Ruedas, a machine learning engineer at NXP Semiconductors, will speak at 11:30 a.m. in Room 256.
- The Sub-Millisecond Scalpel: Bridging the Latency Gap in Telesurgery: Darren Porras, the market development manager at Healthcare Real-Time Innovations, will present at 11:30 a.m. in Room 254 B.
Robotics Summit talks continue in the afternoon
Afternoon talks at Boston’s Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center include:
- ROS in the Loop: Integrating Open-Source Robotics with Industrial Validation Tools: Jacob Perrin, the engineering manager at dSPACE, will start his talk at 1:45 p.m. in Room 252 B.
- Which comes first: the Data or the Robot?: Roch Nakajima, the CMO of Noitom Robotics, will lead this session at 1:45 p.m. in Room 256.
- Integrating AMRs with Supporting Software Systems for Efficient Packing in Warehouses: Greg Meyne, the vice president of automation, robotics, and consulting at enVista, will discuss autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) at 1:45 p.m. in Room 251.
- Tesla’s Roadmap for Scaling AMRs in Legacy U.S. Factories: Joshua Joseph, an AMR deployment engineer at Tesla, will speak at 1:45 p.m. in room 254 A.
- Rebuilding the Robotics Developer Experience: Andrew Stout, a roboticist and machine learning engineer at the Robotics & AI Institute, will lead this session at 1:45 p.m. in Room 252 A.
- MassRobotics Healthcare Startup Showcase: At 1:45 p.m. in Room 254 B, attendees will hear pitches from MassRobotics‘ fifth annual Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst.
- Humanoids That Scale: A Systems and Semiconductor Perspective: Giovanni Campanella, the general manager of industrial automation and robotics at Texas Instruments, will present in Room 252 B at 2:30 p.m.
- Accelerating Industrial Robotics Applications with AI: YJ Lim, principal technical product lead at MathWorks, will talk at 2:30 p.m. in Room 252 A.
- How Physical AI Is Driving Profitable, Scalable Sustainability in Warehouses: Sarah Wynn, the senior editor of Packaging OEM, will have a conversation with Omar Asali, the CEO and chairman of Ranpak, at 2:30 p.m. in Room 251.
The Expo Hall at the 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo.
Check out the Engineering Theater sessions
On the Robotics Summit & Expo floor, the Engineering Theater will have five sessions on Day 2:
- The Italian Way to Advanced Manufacturing: This panel, which starts at 10:15 a.m., will feature Gabriella Mason, the North American marketing manager at COMAU; Daniel Chiaravalli, the North American marketing director at ALBA Robot; Greg Lynn, the co-founder and CEO of Piaggio Fast Forward; and Bart Pascoli, the USMCA project coordinator of Machines Italia, the Italian Trade Agency.
- Building a Cloud‑Connected Physical AI Loop with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and AWS: Jacob Pollard, the senior software engineer at VividCloud; Drew Milleccia, the principal software engineer and cloud solution architect at VividCloud; and Jim Kennedy, vice president of engineering at VividCloud, will participate in a panel starting at 11:00 a.m.
- The Secrets About AI Robotics Platforms: From Prototype to Mass Production: Eric Elmlas, the co-founder of Kickmaster, will start this session at 2:30 p.m. in Room 254 A.
- The Trust Gap: Why Human-Robot Collaboration is the Unsolved Problem in Warehouse Automation: This talk at 12:30 p.m. will include Stephanie DeMarco Bartlett, a principal human factors engineer at Goddard Product Development, and Eric Ragan, the director of robotic systems and automation at Goddard.
- MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge Finals: At 1:15 p.m., Russell Nickerson, the partner engagement liaison at MassRobotics, will announce the winners of the third MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge.
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