We had been excited to be in Washington DC yesterday to help the Congressional Robotics Caucus Briefing on Constructing towards a Nationwide Robotics Technique.
Congressman Jim McGovern spoke about reinvigorating the Caucus, which had been dominant for the previous few years, and dealing to lift the attention of robots’ position within the US economic system and our competitiveness.
Susan Margulies, Assistant Director of the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF), highlighted the quite a few analysis initiatives in robotics that her group has funded and a number of the developments which have come out of it.
A panel led by Grace W., President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, spoke of the way forward for robotics, the place the federal authorities might help within the adoption and deployment of this expertise, and the position of regulation throughout the business.
Our Government Director, Tom Ryden, closed the session by emphasizing the flexibility of robotics to impression just about any business and inspiring members to expertise the completely different robots that had been within the room. Our resident startups, GreenSight, Ubiros Inc., Cleo Robotics, and Haply Robotics supplied their demos as properly showcasing improvements and functions of their applied sciences.
Search for extra conferences with the Caucus on subjects impacting robotics sooner or later 🤖
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