MassRobotics Broadcasts Type & Perform Problem Winners, Showcases First Accelerator Cohort on the  Robotics Summit & Expo

MassRobotics introduced the winners of its 2nd Type & Perform College Robotics Problem. Twelve groups from across the globe showcased their robotics and automation initiatives, competing for money prizes. The thought of this problem was intentionally ambiguous, to create a robotic that appears good, Type, and works, Perform. Parts and software program donated by companions AMD, Analog Units, Danfoss, Festo, Lattice Semiconductor, Mitsubishi Electrical, Novanta, Solidworks and Igus helped the coed groups make the most of the newest and biggest choices within the trade. A panel of judges from the robotics trade chosen the Seoul Nationwide College staff with their deployable gantry system that 3D printed on the concrete flooring of the conference heart as this yr’s first prize winner. The second prize was awarded to the Harvard College staff with a Hydrocube able to shifting particles in liquid with out touching them and the third prize was awarded to the Wentworth Institute of Expertise staff with an underwater inspection robotic. 

Present attendees had been intrigued with a robotic that may detect and monitor embers in wildfires and picked the College of British Columbia staff as this yr’s Viewers Selection awardee. 

On the Robotics Summit, MassRobotics showcased the businesses in its inaugural Accelerator cohort; every firm introduced its applied sciences and enterprise fashions, highlighting the impression of the Accelerator program. The MassRobotics Accelerator, powered by Mass Tech Collaborative, empowers the subsequent technology of robotics startups by way of non-dilutive funding, custom-tailored curriculum, and customized mentorship. This equity-free program helps and advances robotics expertise entrepreneurs by way of a 13-week lengthy in-person program, primarily based out of MassRobotics in Boston’s Seaport Innovation District. Taking part corporations are:

Attire Robotics, brd BOT, Gopher Movement, Hominid X, Mapless AI, Oligo, Robotics 88, rStream, SIMPL Automation, Yard Robotics

RBR 5O gala

We  have been chosen for an RBR50 award for launching the world’s first non-dilutive robotics accelerator! Our program gives tailor-made mentorship from skilled robotics entrepreneurs and covers key enterprise matters like buyer discovery and fundraising.

Because of our partnership with Massachusetts Expertise Collaborative, every firm receives $100,000 in non-dilutive funding.Proud to help startups with the funding and training they should succeed.

Congratulations to our resident startups Glidance Inc, Opteran, and Sereact for his or her recognition as RBR50 winners!

As a strategic companion with WTWH Media for the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, MassRobotics performed a key function in offering steering and leveraging its intensive international community to help the occasion. Greater than 4850 attendees participated in classes led by trade leaders corresponding to Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Medtronic, and Teradyne, gaining insights into the way forward for robotics growth. The exhibit corridor doubled in footprint from final yr, with practically 200 exhibitors. 

Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst

MassRobotics, in collaboration with companions FESTO, Mitsubishi Electrical, Novanta and MITRE showcased its Healthcare Catalyst cohort on the Robotics Summit. The Healthcare Catalyst program, designed to help early-stage healthcare robotics startups, facilitated innovation sharing and connections with trade specialists. This yr’s cohort included: Ready Improvements, AiM Medical Robotics, Cobionix, Dopl Applied sciences, Healthic, RIF Robotics, REEV, and Limber Applied sciences 

Ladies in Robotics Breakfast 

We kicked off the 2nd day of the Summit with a Ladies in Robotics breakfast that includes Dr. Kate Darling, a Analysis Scientist at MIT and leads the Ethics & Society analysis staff on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Her work explores the societal and authorized implications of robotics. She’s the creator of The New Breed: What Our Historical past with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots. In a private and spirited fireplace chat with our co-founder Joyce Sidopoulos, the viewers realized about Kate’s tutorial profession and she or he spoke about her views on the intersection of expertise, ethics and historical past.

There was quite a bit written about how robots will substitute us and take our jobs. However as an MIT Media Lab researcher and expertise coverage skilled she argues simply the other, suggesting that treating robots with a little bit of humanity, extra like the best way we deal with animals, will really serve us higher.  She believes robots are more likely to complement―moderately than substitute―our personal abilities and relationships. 

Kate handled the viewers and shared one among her “pet” social robots – a child dinosaur.  She’s used this prop in workshops and it’s revealed how individuals deal with it not as an object or robotic, however as a pet!  There was a variety of viewers participation and so many questions that we ran out of time.  We’re trying ahead to persevering with this new custom – however will want a bigger room subsequent yr!

MassRobotics Profession Honest

The MassRobotics Profession Honest, a technical profession truthful connecting prime expertise with trade corporations, attracted 15 hiring corporations and about 400 attendees. 

As well as, the Summit featured a spread of applications and showcases, together with the MassRobotics Resident Startup Alley, a showcase of applied sciences, providing a glimpse into the way forward for robotics innovation. Taking part corporations included

Tatum Robotics, Cogniteam, Cleo Robotics, ATDev, Opteran, Southie Autonomy, Gaia AI, Extra Methods  US Positronix, Radmantis, MagLev Aero, Glidance, Black-I Robotics, GreenSight, Peyk, and Ubiros 

The MassRobotics seventh Annual Robotic Block Occasion will happen September 28, 2024 in Boston’s Seaport district. Signal as much as request exhibition area to showcase robotics expertise or  present a demo  right here. For sponsorship, inquire right here.