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RoboticsTrends.com
is the world's leading robotics online information
resource magazine, with news, features, analysis and complete
coverage of all aspects of emerging robotics technologies
and applications.
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RoboNexus was designed and developed together with
the world's leading robotics manufacturers, researchers
and software and hardware practitioners to meet the
educational needs of a wide range of people, including
business professionals, software and hardware
developers, robotics hobbyists, researchers, students,
educators, investment professionals and consumers.
The RoboNexus advisory board includes: |
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RoboNexus Event Chairman
Dan Kara is President/Co-Founder
of Robotics Trends, and Executive Editor,
RoboticsTrends.com.
He is a high
technology media veteran and thought leading
research analyst. Dan has published numerous articles on emerging robotics technologies, and is a sought after
writer and lecturer. Prior to co-founding
Robotics Trends he co-founded two highly
successful integrated media firms, Intermedia
Group and Software Productivity Group |
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Colin
Angle, Co-founder and CEO of iRobot. Colin
Angle guides the strategic direction of the
company. Colin is a true pioneer in the field of
mobile robots, designing the behavior controlled
rovers for NASA that led to the Sojourner
exploring Mars in 1997. But more importantly
Colin has pioneered business models and
relationships responsible for the introduction
of multiple commercially viable robotic products
in commercial and consumer markets. |
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Dr.
Ken Berry, Founder of RoboEducators has
worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) where he developed the
Mars Rover Project for middle school
students. Since JPL he has developed a
nationwide network of educators who
share information on robotics, and
support each other in promoting robotics
in the classroom. RoboEducators is
attempting to institutionalize robotics
in schools by creating integrated high
school science curriculum using robotics
as a theme. Over 2000 educators are now
part of the group. See
http://www.engineering-ed.org |
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Dr.
Rodney A. Brooks, Director of the MIT Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He is the Fujitsu Professor of
Computer Science. He is also Chairman and Chief
Technical Officer of iRobot Corp. His research
is concerned with both the engineering of
intelligent robots to operate in unstructured
environments, and with understanding human
intelligence through building humanoid robots. |
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Neena Buck is Vice President of the
Emerging Frontiers practice at Strategy
Analytics, an industry analysis and
market research firm. Emerging Frontiers
examines the confluence of
future-generation intelligent computing
and communications systems with the
needs of leading-edge businesses and
consumers. Previously, Ms. Buck was the
founder of Common Knowledge Cambridge, a
research, analysis and technology
strategy firm focused on tracking
under-the-radar technologies and their
impact on businesses, consumers and
society. |
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David Calkins, President of the
Robotics Society of America
and Founder of ROBOlympics.
David also teaches robotics at San
Francisco State University and has been
profiled in a variety of media outlets
including the Discovery Channel, CNN.com, the New York Times, the History
Channel, Tech TV and Time Magazine.
Teaming with NASA's Robotics Education
Project, he helps involve kids in
building robots and competing them. He
also judges robot competitions around
the country. He recently co-founded a
company to build both competition robots
and home-based consumer robots. |
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Dan Danknick, Technical Editor,
SERVO and Nuts & Volts magazines.
Previously, he worked for 13 years as an
embedded systems engineer, writing low-level
communication drivers and animatronics control
code for Walt Disney Imagineering. He holds 10
patents for his work in industry and holds a
degree in applied physics. |
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Dr. Paolo Pirjanian,
Chief Scientist at Evolution Robotics, Inc
and heads the R&D efforts in developing core
technologies for consumer and commercial
robotics products. His main work is focused
around vision-based navigation, control
architectures, and human-robot interaction |
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Nanu Swamy is an Educational
Entrepreneur and the Founder/Director of
Technology for
RoboTech Center, whose mission
is to expose children to advanced
engineering concepts and technologies
based on their intellectual maturity.
Our intent is to invoke the inquisitive
discovery processes within every child
and encourage them to be trailblazers
into the future by adventuring into new
technological frontiers unperceivable to
conservative thinkers of the past. |
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Dr. Charles E.
“Chuck” Thorpe, Director of CMU’s Robotics
Institute in the School of Computer Science.
He is founder of the institute’s master’s degree
program. Since 1984, he has worked on the
development of outdoor robotic vehicles,
focusing on computer vision, planning and
architectures for these machines. Chuck and his
Navlab research group have built a series of 11
robotic cars, trucks, and busses for military
and civilian research. Chuck also has been
involved in the development of automated
helicopters, walking robots and robots that
operate under water. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for Artificial
Intelligence. |
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Junku Yuh, Ph.D.,
Program Director, Robotics Program and Computer
Vision Program, National Science Foundation -
The Robotics Program and Computer Vision
Program at the NSF sponsors over 180 U.S. top
researchers for their projects in robotics and
computer vision. Before joining NSF, Dr. Yuh
worked as Professor of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Faculty of
the Department of Information & Computer Science
at the University of Hawaii (UH) in Honolulu,
Hawaii for 18 years. He is also Director of the
Autonomous Systems Laboratory at UH, supervising
about 30 people work for his research projects
in robotics, especially autonomous underwater
robots. He received several prestigious awards
including a Presidential Young Investigator
Award from U.S. President George Bush (senior)
through the National Science Foundation in 1991
and a Lifetime Achievement Award from World
Automation Congress in 2004. He is listed in
Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the West,
and Men of Achievement. |
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