Event Overview
Robotics Trends’ RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition is a multifaceted educational forum and trade show dedicated to addressing the technical issues involved with the design and development of commercial robotic products.
The RoboDevelopment exposition hall provides attendees with hands on access to the latest design and development solutions for producing mobile robotics and intelligent systems technology, while the RoboDevelopment keynotes and general sessions are specifically designed to impart to technical professionals with the information they need to develop the next generation of personal, service and mobile robots.
Tracks in the RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition include:
- Design, Development and Standards
- Tools and Platforms
- Enabling Technology
The RoboDevelopment event differs dramatically from industrial and academic robotics events. In fact, it is the first technical event for the robotics industry that is focused on the design and development of commercial mobile robots and intelligent systems products.
An Underserved Market
To date, events covering technical design and development issues specific to robotics have fallen into two camps. The first event type serves the industrial robotics market and covers information related to the programming of non-mobile, robotic ‘arms’ involved with manufacturing operations in highly structured factory floor environments. The second type of robotics technical events are academic conferences. While academic robotics conferences are not specifically dedicated to design and development issues per se, they often include design and development sessions within them.
While industrial robotics events serve their market, they offer little to those seeking technical information for the non-industrial robotics sectors, a market that studies indicate will be twice the size of the industrial robotics market by 2010, and almost 4X its size by 2025. Academic events target small, narrow niches, providing quality content and good networking opportunities (although with a small number of people), but at the expense of branding, marketing and sales opportunities for robotics solution providers and the personal, service and mobile robotics market as a whole. Perhaps most importantly, many sessions at academic events are not focused on the development of products and systems with an eye to their commercial potential. The RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition emphasizes the design and development of commercially viable personal, service and intelligent mobile robotics products - products that are to be used outside of laboratory environments and sold at a profit.
Engineering for a New Industry
The personal, service and mobile robotics markets have now reached a critical stage and are poised for rapid, dramatic growth. The RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition will provide technical professionals with the real-world solutions and actionable content they need to design, develop and manufacture the next generation of robotics products that will come to define this exciting new industry. The RoboDevelopment Expo Hall will offer attendees hands on access to the latest design and development solutions for producing robots and robotic technology, while the RoboDevelopment Professional Development Program will provide technical professionals with the information they need to develop the next generation of commercial mobile robotics and intelligent systems products.