Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology, To Keynote at RoboBusiness 2007 Conference and Expo
Director, Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech, to Address the International Business Development Event for the Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems Industry on the Topic of ‘New Applications for Industrial Robotics’
Framingham, MA – April 17, 2007 – Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, announced today that Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics and Director, Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver a keynote address on May 15, 2007 at the fourth annual RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition. RoboBusiness 2007, taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA on May 15-16, is the international business development event for the mobile robotics and intelligent systems industry. The event website is http://www.roboevent.com.
According to Dan Kara, conference chairman and President of Robotics Trends, “We are delighted to have Henrik Christensen, a widely known and respected leader within the robotics community, deliver a keynote session at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition.” Continues Kara, “The 2007 RoboBusiness event has been expanded to five tracks, including a New Markets for Industrial Robotics track. Henrik’s keynote session, entitled ‘New Applications in Industrial Robotics’, is in keeping with this new track and the event’s overall emphasis on increasing the commercial application of robotics and intelligent systems.”
Henrik Christensen notes, “I am very pleased to be delivering a keynote session at the RoboBusiness 2007 event. RoboBusiness is an international event dedicated to the commercial application of robots and intelligent systems technology, and as such it attracts a wide variety of robotics and business professionals from the consumer, commercial, and military and security markets. The event provides the perfect audience for a session focused on expanding role for industrial robots.”
RoboBusiness 2007 will host over 50 international exhibits and and more than 50 industry-leading speakers in its five-track conference program. Session tracks include:
- Business Development and Investment;
- Technology and Standards;
- Applications and Products;
- Markets and Industries; and
- SPOTLIGHT: New Markets for Industrial Robotics.
Complete event details and registration information can be found online at http://www.roboevent.com.
RoboBusiness sponsors include:
Founding Sponsor iRobot and Premier Sponsors The Technology Collaborative and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council
Gold Sponsors Coroware, Freescale Semiconductor, Holland+Knight, Evolution Robotics and Microsoft
Corporate Co-Sponsors Advanced Digital Logic, ATI Industrial Automation, Autonomous Solutions, Boston Engineering, Foster-Miller, Galileo Mobility Instruments, GOSTAI, Honeywell, Hokuyo Automatic, InTouch Health, Japan External Trade Association (JETRO) and City of Osaka, Kumotek, MachineBus, Magmotor, Merlin Systems, NeuroRobotics, NEXSTAR, OceanServer Technology, OC Robotics, OLogic, Perrone Robotics, Robosoft, RoboTech Center, Segway, SCHUNK, Valde Systems and Vecna Robotics
Academic, Association and Media Co-Sponsors include: Premier Media Co-Sponsor Popular Science, along with Robotics Society of America, Circuit Cellar, Hobby Manufacturers Association, Entertainment Engineering, Robot Magazine, Nuts & Volts, Linux Journal, Machine Brain, RC Driver, Object Management Group, Global Emerging Technology Institute, Strategy Analytics, Vision Systems Design, and Servo Magazine.
About Robotics Trends, Inc.
Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, Inc. (http://www.ehpub.com), is the world’s first integrated media firm serving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics marketplace. Robotics Trends services their clientele through three major business divisions:
- Robotics Trends Publishing, which produces http://www.roboticstrends.com, an online news, information and analysis portal focused on business and technology trends for people who build, buy, invest in, and seek to understand the personal, service, mobile and military robotics market;
- Robotics Trends Events, which produces the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition (http://www.roboevent.com and http://www.roboevent.com) and the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition (http://www.robonexus.com); and
- Robotics Trends Analyst Services serving the strategic consulting needs of leading emerging robotics manufacturers.
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