March 18, Tech Entrepreneur Forum - Robotics

[bostonbrian]

Tech Entrepreneur Forum
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March 18, 2008
MEETING DETAILS
March 18, 2008 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
Bay Colony Corporate Center
1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 (North Entrance), Waltham, MA
Cost: $25. public || $10. students & active military
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Robotics - One Leg Up on the Competition

Robotics as a science has tugged powerfully on the human imagination for many years and has often served as a visible front-end for broader movements within technology and science. As academics and entrepreneurs have expanded the frontier of what robots are and what they are capable of, the field has broadened and now incorporates multiple sub-disciplines such as: distributed sensor networks, robotic-aided surgery, search and rescue, autonomous vehicles, nanoscale robots, and biorobotics. While the popular imagination of robots remains largely settled on humanoid forms, robots can be more broadly classed as agents of automation across multiple industries and applications, and cutting edge research into robotics is as or more likely to be software-application driven than linked to bio-mechanics.

The future of robotics suggests an ongoing broadening of the roles attributed to robots, and a deepening of the science in applications where it has already established itself. The March 18th EntreTech Forum focuses on understanding the future of Robotics, with a focus on the commercialization of academic research in the area.

[GuyBBY]

Thanks Brain, sounds interesting and a great networking event nonetheless.

Guy