Washington, DC - To promote the progress and promise of collaborative robotics (co-robot) research, the Congressional Robotics Caucus will host an expo on Thursday, June 9, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
The event will mark the five-year anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative, a multi-agency effort among the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the development and use of robots that work beside or cooperatively with people and solve problems in areas of national priority.
The event, hosted by Congressional Robotics Caucus Co-Chairs Congressman Rob Woodall and Congressman Mike Doyle, will feature the latest in robotic technologies, as well as a discussion among leading scientists, educators and thought-leaders, and will promote improved public understanding of development of co-robots in the modern world.
Event details:
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What |
An expo event for legislators, congressional staffers, agency representatives, media and the public demonstrating advances in the field of robotics. |
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When |
12:30 – 6 p.m. ET on June 9, 2016 |
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Where |
All events at the B339 Rayburn House Office Building |
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Who |
All are welcome; RSVP requested: email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Schedule:
12:30 – 2 p.m.
- A lunchtime discussion about the impact of the National Robotics Initiative among leaders from industry, academia and government
The panel will feature:
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Moderator Martial Hebert, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
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Lynne Parker, co-chair, NITRD Interagency Working Group on Robotics and Intelligent Systems
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Robert Atkinson, president, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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Henrik Christensen, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Tech University; fellow, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
2 – 4 p.m.
- Open house: Meet the NRI recipients
4 – 6:30 p.m.
- A room full of robots in action: Demonstrations of diverse, representative research supported by the National Robotics Initiative
The exhibition will feature researchers leading NRI-funded projects and agencies, including:
- Aaron Becker, University of Houston
- Howie Choset, Carnegie Mellon University
- Jnaneshwar Das, University of Pennsylvania
- Aaron Ames, Georgia Tech Jessy Grizzle, University of Michigan, and Koushil Sreenath, Carnegie Mellon University
- Satyandra K. Gupta, University of Southern California
- Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins University
- Robert MacCurdy, MIT
- Marcie O’Malley, Rice University
- Josip Markus, Ekso Bionics
- Andrew Williams, Marquette University
- Tyr Wiesner-Hanks, Cornell University
- Cang Ye, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Department of Energy, Environmental Management
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Robotic Systems for Smart Manufacturing Program