Learn about generative AI’s impact on robotics at the Robotics Summit & Expo

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In the past year, advances in artificial intelligence dominated the news cycle. OpenAI’s Generate Pre-trained Transformer, or GPT 3.5, gained 100 million users in just two months. And while researchers and developers are already using generative AI to enable robots to learn challenging manipulation tasks more quickly, it’s not yet clear how this technology breakthrough will be applied to robotics at scale.

At the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo, which will be at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on May 1 and 2, a panel will discuss the application of large language models (LLMs) and text-generation applications to robotics. The speakers will also explore how generative AI can benefit robotics design, model training, simulation, control, human-machine interaction, and more.

Generative AI experts to speak

The Robotics Summit & Expo panel will include the following generative AI experts:

• Sandra Skaff is senior alliances and ecosystem manager at NVIDIA. There, she leads robotics ecosystem development and works with cross-functional teams to support partners and customers in developing their products using NVIDIA’s Isaac platform. Before this role, Skaff was the global lead of academic research engagements including the NVAIL program, where she was responsible for setting strategy and managing engagements with top research labs in the areas of AI, robotics, and data science.
• Juan Aparicio is the co-founder and CEO of Reshape Automation. He is a robotics and automation enthusiast on a mission to scale and democratize access to robotics technology in manufacturing and beyond. During his career, Aparicio has brought together the worlds of industrial automation, robotics, and AI with his work featured in The New York Times, MIT Tech Review, Wired, Forbes, The Robot Report, and other media outlets. Before founding Reshape Automation, Aparicio worked at various robotics companies, including Rapid Robotics, Ready Robotics, and Siemens. 
• Russ Tedrake is the Toyota Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, the director of the Center for Robotics at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), and the leader of Team MIT’s entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. He is also vice president of Robotics Research at the Toyota Research Institute. Tedrake is the recipient of the 2021 Jamieson Teaching Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer Award for undergraduate teaching, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in Mathematics, and the 2012 Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award. He was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow.

More than 5k developers to gather at Robotics Summit

Since 2018, the Robotics Summit & Expo has become the world’s leading robotics development event. This year, it will feature keynotes from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Medtronic, and Teradyne and more than 5,000 attendees from across the robotics ecosystem. 

The summit also offers numerous technical sessions and networking opportunities to give attendees opportunities to lean how to develop the next generation of commercial robots. You can view the complete Robotics Summit agenda here. Speakers are still being added.

In addition, the Robotics Summit & Expo will showcase more than 200 exhibitors, as well as a women in robotics breakfast, a career fair, an engineering theater, a startup showcases, and more!

New to the event is the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards Gala. The event will include the chance to hear from the Robot of the Year, Startup of the Year, and Application of the Year winners. A limited number of tickets is available to summit attendees. 

The Robotics Summit & Expo will be co-located with DeviceTalks Boston, the premier industry event for medical technology professionals. DeviceTalks attracts engineering and business professionals from a broad range of healthcare and medical technology backgrounds.

It will also be co-located with the Digital Transformation Forum, an inaugural event designed to help manufacturers engage with industry leaders, technology experts, and peers who are navigating the complexities of digital transformation. Participants will gain insights into strategies, emerging technologies, and best practices.

Registration is now open for the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. Register by March 8 to take advantage of early-bird pricing.

For information about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, download the prospectus or contact Colleen Sepich at csepich[AT]wtwhmedia.com.

Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more.