EXHIBITOR PREVIEW
Companies You Will Meet at RoboDevelopment 2008
Attend RoboDevelopment Conference & Exposition 2008 and explore a full Expo Floor featuring what’s new and what’s next in robotics design and development. Meet face-to-face with dozens of the top organizations and make important business connections.
Here are just some of the companies you will see at RoboDevelopment:
ADVANCED Motion Controls
Booth #102
ADVANCED Motion Controls is proud to co-sponsor RoboDevelopment 2008 by presenting servo drive strategies for robot design in formal presentation as well as products on the exhibition floor. Highlighting the need for high power density, partnering with ADVANCED Motion Controls allows OEM's robot systems be competitive with extremely compact, energy efficient, PCB or panel mount servo drives.
AllMotion Inc.
Booth #115
AllMotion Inc. develops and manufactures miniature high-performance stepper and servo drives for the medical, scientific, optical and general automation markets. Our mission is to create superior, ultra-compact motion control solutions that reduce costs and readily integrate into OEM instrumentation designs across a wide range of industries. R&D efforts are centered on core competencies of small form factor components that deliver precise positioning control and ease of use.
Elmo Motion Control
Booth #311
Elmo Motion Control designs, manufactures and sells machine motion control solutions by network based motion controllers and intelligent digital servo drives for brush and brushless motors. Elmo's drives offer the highest power density in an extremely compact package. Elmo products have been integrated in industries where performance, precision and consistency of operation are paramount.
Energid Technologies
Booth #106
See Robai’s new Cyton II low-cost 7-DOF arm, and Schunk’s sleek LWA modular arm, both powered by Energid Actin. Energid’s Actin toolkit enables straightforward control of complex robotics, including coordinated motion, force control, collision avoidance, and simulation-based design validation. Energid’s Selectin provides real-time 3D object recognition and tracking.
Festo Corporation
Booth #320
Festo Corporation is pleased to exhibit its new Robotino, mobile robotics training system. Graphically programmable in C++, communications to this mobile robot via a wireless LAN with live camera imaging, this device can be utilized to teach image processing, sensor technology, motor controls and Mechatronics.
Inspired Energy
Booth #214
Specializing in the creation of battery packs with built-in electronic intelligence; providing battery monitoring, high-precision fuel gauging, battery diagnostics and battery-to-host communications. We also design and manufacture smart SMBus charging systems, and are uniquely positioned to assist in the design and commercialization of fuel cell / battery hybrid systems providing the capability for the smart battery and fuel cell to communicate directly.
Jetta Company Limited
Booth #220
Unleash the power of your imagination – Jetta a world class OEM manufacturer that offers a one-stop solution from product concept to production.
Microchip Technology
Booth #415
Microchip Technology is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Product offerings include 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC(r) microcontrollers, 16-bit dsPIC(r) digital signal controllers, analog and interface products and serial EEPROM memory products.
MobileRobots Inc
Booth #100
Making YOUR Job Easier! For 13 years, MobileRobots Inc has provided thousands of robot bases to developers, OEMs and users. Come see how easily you and your users can set up and apply their autonomous systems to your applications. Join their NEW MobileRobots Developer Program or learn how your company can become a MobileRobots Technology or Channel Partner.
National Instruments
Booth #201
Learn why engineers, researchers, and educators have embraced the use of NI LabVIEW and CompactRIO graphical system design for a variety of mobile and autonomous robotics applications. Along with partners from Boston Engineering, TORC Technologies and Cyth Systems, see demos featuring programmable LEGO® robots, an autonomous ground vehicle or oppose the CythBot in a Guitar Hero challenge.
OceanServer Technology, Inc.
Booth #219
OceanServer provides OEMs with scalable Li-Ion battery system solutions, digital compasses and marine robots for a variety of applications. The Iver2 AUV is an open system platform for university research and commercial applications.
Pico Technology
Booth #315
Established in 1991, Pico Technology quickly became a leader in the manufacturing of PC Based Oscilloscopes and Data Loggers. Today, Pico offers oscilloscopes with bandwidths ranging from DC up to 12 GHz and data loggers with wide ranges of measurement capabilities.
PNI Corp.
Booth #218
PNI sensors harness Earth's magnetic field to tell you whether you're up or down, on a tilt, or facing east. They're reliable and accurate over temperature; across a computer screen or down a ravine; underwater; in space; in a vehicle, while using 10 times less power than other sensor technologies.
Sparton Corporation
Booth #312
Sparton Corporation, now in its 108th year, is a broad-based provider of electronics to technology-driven companies in diverse markets. The Company provides its customers with sophisticated electronic and electro-mechanical products through prime contracts and through contract design and manufacturing services. Headquartered in Jackson, Michigan, Sparton has six locations world-wide.
Technosoft
Booth #111
Technosoft designs and manufactures intelligent servo drives and motors which embed motion control, drive and PLC functionalities in a single compact unit. Based on MotionChipTM DSP technology they cover all type of brushless, DC, linear or step motor applications from 25W up to 3kW. Technosoft drives are fully programmable and offer distributed control via CAN networks. Motion libraries simplify the system integration in a large
variety of industries.
Velodyne Lidar, Inc.
Booth #418
The Velodyne HDL-64E S2 is a 64-element LIDAR sensor that delivers a 360-degree HFOV and a 26.8-degree VFOV. It generates more than one million distance points per second, creating a point cloud that is much denser than previously possible. The HDL-64E S2 is used for automotive, military, mapping and survey applications.
Willow Garage
Booth #314
Willow Garage, a proponent of Open Source robotics, will demonstrate the sensor head from the upcoming PR2 robot, including a stereo camera on a very fast pan-tilt head, a Hokuyo laser scanner on a tilt platform, and two pan-tilt-zoom cameras. Find out how the PR2 will see the world.
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