By The Robotic Report Employees | February 19, 2024
BOSTON — WTWH Media, which produces The Robotic Report, has introduced that MassRobotics is the unique strategic accomplice of the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, which can be on Might 1 and a couple of on the Boston Conference and Exhibition Middle. In that position, MassRobotics is offering steering and is performing as a liaison to its community of companions, sponsors, and resident startups, in addition to to the worldwide robotics group.
“MassRobotics, being the biggest robotics hub, sees nice worth in persevering with our partnership with The Robotic Report,” mentioned Tom Ryden, government director of MassRobotics. “We sit up for bringing a singular perspective to the summit. As a major occasion within the robotics subject, we’re proud to take part and excited to showcase our improvements by a number of cubicles.”
Boston-based MassRobotics is a nonprofit robotics hub devoted to accelerating innovation and adoption within the subject of robotics. The group supplies entrepreneurs and startups with the workspace and networking they should efficiently develop, prototype, take a look at, and commercialize the subsequent technology of robotics and related units.
MassRobotics Accelerator startups to debut on the present
For the primary time, the Robotics Summit & Expo will host a pavilion with the ten individuals in MassRobotics’ Accelerator Program. The ten startups will exhibit on the present flooring and can discus their journeys in a session on Might 1 at 4:15 p.m. ET.
- Attire Robotics
- brd BOT
- Gopher Movement
- Hominid X
- Mapless AI
- Oligo
- Robotics 88
- rStream
- SIMPL Automation
- Yard Robotics
“We’re excited to debut our first accelerator cohort on the Robotics Summit,” mentioned Marita McGinn, director of the MassRobotics Accelerator. “This showcase is very significant for us, because it represents a major milestone in our mission of serving to scale the subsequent nice robotics corporations. With the ability to current our cohort at an occasion attended by business leaders and roboticists underscores the worth and influence of our program in fostering innovation and driving developments within the subject of robotics.”
“Technical founders can typically soar to product-building mode earlier than intimately understanding their finish person and buyer,” she added. “Throughout this program, our startups will every full at the very least 25 buyer discovery interviews, in an effort to hone in on their buyer ache and desires. Our aim is to assist these good technical founders to bolster their enterprise acumen by this curriculum.”
A number of of MassRobotics’ resident startups will showcase their applied sciences in Startup Alley on the present flooring. MassRobotics will even host a session and sales space selling healthcare robotics startups from its Catalyst program.
Kind & Perform Robotics Problem to call winners at expo
For the second 12 months in a row, individuals within the MassRobotics Kind & Perform Robotics Problem will present their prototypes on the Robotics Summit & Expo present flooring. The problem known as for college groups to create a robotics venture that delivers a compelling design particular to its duties whereas performing a helpful perform.
The groups have come from around the globe:
- Cornell College
- Harvard College
- Kennesaw State College
- Massachusetts Institute of Expertise
- Northeastern College
- Seoul Nationwide College/Mechanical Engineering/Biorobotics Lab
- Stanford, College of Michigan, RPI
- RPI
- The Technical College of Kenya
- Tufts College
- College of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus)
- College of Florida
- College of Massachusetts Lowell
- College of Massachusetts, Amherst
- College of Michigan
- College of Notre Dame
- Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
- Wentworth Institute of Expertise
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Kind & Perform Robotics Problem additionally inspired collaboration between the college groups and MassRobotics companions offering state-of-the-art {hardware} and software program, together with AMD, Analog Units, Danfoss, Festo, Lattice, Mitsubishi Electrical, Novanta, SolidWorks, and igus.
MassRobotics will announce the winners of the $10,000 grand prize and $1,000 second and third prizes at midday on Thursday, Might 2, within the Engineering Theater on the Robotics Summit & Expo present flooring. As well as, attendees will be capable of vote for his or her favourite groups, and the winner will obtain a $1,000 Viewers Selection Award.
Click on right here to enlarge picture. Supply: MassRobotics
MassRobotics profession truthful to attach candidates and employers
On the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, MassRobotics will conduct a Robotics Engineering Profession Truthful on Might 2 from 3:30 to six:00 p.m. ET. It’s meant to supply alternatives for job seekers to attach with producers of robots, synthetic intelligence, and machine studying applied sciences.
Previous profession festivals on the summit have drawn greater than 600 candidates, from current graduates to skilled engineers, pc scientists, imaginative and prescient specialists, mechatronics consultants, AI professionals, and extra. Hiring corporations can enter to take part.
The Robotics Engineering Profession Truthful will return to the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. Supply: MassRobotics
Extra concerning the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo
The Robotics Summit & Expo focuses on the design, growth, and scaling of business robots. The annual occasion brings collectively the brightest minds in robotics from around the globe to share their experience on matters starting from enabling applied sciences to growth instruments and methods and extra.
“The Robotics Summit & Expo demonstrates the worth of a world-class technical convention for these growing industrial robotics,” mentioned Steve Crowe, government editor for robotics at WTWH Media and chair of the Robotics Summit & Expo. “We’re thrilled to work with MassRobotics to collect know-how and business leaders constructing the subsequent technology of robotics techniques and companies.”
Keynotes will characteristic the next luminaries:
- Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robotic officer at Agility Robotics
- Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics
- Ujjwal Kumar, group president at Teradyne Robotics
- Morgan Pope, analysis scientist, and Moritz Baecher, affiliate lab director for robotics, at Disney Analysis
- Medtronic will display its distant robotic-assisted surgical system.
The Robotics Summit will even embody convention tracks on the automated warehouse and AI along with growth, enabling applied sciences, and healthcare. An Engineering Theater on the present flooring will characteristic further shows on modern techniques and use instances.
Greater than 130 exhibitors will present their applied sciences on the expo present flooring. The occasion is co-located with DeviceTalks Boston, which focuses on the event of medical units and applied sciences.
On Wednesday, Might 1, the Robotics Summit & Expo will host the inaugural RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards Gala to rejoice this 12 months’s winners of the celebrated recognition. Tickets can be out there for this gala.
This 12 months’s summit will even current networking alternatives within the type of VIP and welcome receptions, an Expo Ground Tailgate, and a Combine and Mingle occasion, in addition to a brand new Girls in Robotics Breakfast on Might 2.
Registration is now open for the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. An Educational Outreach Program provides reductions for attendees coming from schools, universities, and analysis establishments.
For sponsorship alternatives, go to the occasion website or contact Colleen Sepich at csepich[at]wtwhmedia.com.
About WTWH Media
WTWH Media LLC is an award-winning media and advertising firm serving engineering, government, and funding professionals by greater than 50 web sites and 5 print publications, together with many different technical and enterprise occasions. It serves business verticals together with design engineering, life sciences, renewable vitality, meals service, comfort retail, and golf equipment and resorts.
WTWH’s Robotics Group produces The Robotic Report, Cell Robotic Information, and Collaborative Robotics Developments. These on-line technical, enterprise and funding information and data portals concentrate on robotics and clever techniques. WTWH Media additionally produces main in-person conferences together with the Robotics Summit & Expo and RoboBusiness.
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