The Latest in Emerging Robotics Products Featured at RoboBusiness

Exhibiting Companies Represent the World’s Leading Robotics Organizations and Universities

FRAMINGHAM, MA – April 13, 2009 – Robotics Trends and EH Publishing today announced the lineup of exhibiting companies for the 2009 RoboBusiness Conference & Exposition which takes place this week, April 15-16, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. RoboBusiness Conference & Exposition (http://www.robobusiness.com) is the international business development event for personal, service and mobile robotics industry.

Dozens of exhibiting companies, representing leading robotics solutions providers and researchers from around the world, will showcase emerging robotics products, technologies, services, and market opportunities.
“The amount of support the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition has received in terms of high-quality keynotes and speakers, along with sponsorship from industry leading products and services companies, clearly demonstrates the high regard in which the RoboBusiness event is held, along with a real need for an industry event dedicated to the business opportunities in the mobile robotics and intelligent systems industry,” says Dan Kara, President of Robotics Trends.

RoboBusiness Conference & Exposition 2009 Exhibiting Companies:
·    ADVANCED Motion Controls
·    aicas incorporated
·    Amrel/American Reliance, Inc.
·    AnthroTronix
·    AUVSI
·    Barrett Technology, Inc.
·    CCS Robotics
·    CITY OF OSAKA
·    DeVivo AST, Inc
·    DMP Electronic Inc.
·    ELMO Motion Control
·    Energid
·    FIRST
·    Foster-Miller Inc.
·    GEARS Educational Systems
·    GEMCITY Engineering & Manufacturing
·    Hagisonic Co., LTD.
·    Harmonic Drive
·    Hokuyo
·    Holland & Knight LLP
·    iRobot Corporation
·    Jetta Company Limited
·    LeCroy Corporation
·    Mass Tech Leadership Council
·    Microbotics, Inc.
·    Quanser
·    RE2 Inc.
·    Robert Morris University
·    RoboSoft
·    Robotics Trends
·    SCHUNK
·    Segway
·    Senteck Solutions
·    SRI
·    The Technology Collaborative
·    threeRivers 3D
·    Velodyne Lidar, Inc.
·    VersaLogic Corp
·    Wind River
·    Worcester Polytech Institute

Exhibitors will showcase what’s new and what’s next in robotics, including:

• Barrett Technology will be showcasing the WAM™ Arm, a highly dexterous, naturally backdrivable manipulator, and The BarrettHand, a multi-fingered programmable grasper with the dexterity to secure target objects of different sizes, shapes, and orientations
• Security and healthcare robots by CCS Robotics
• DMP Electronic Inc. will be showcasing its RoBoard, which makes robots more active and intelligent
• QNA/Foster-Miller’s TALON® Robots
• Robosoft’s robuLAB10, a compact and fast mobile robot aimed at helping people in need
• Gravity-defying electroadhesive robots, precision telesurgery, and multi-platform mapping and navigation software by SRI International
• Velodyne Lidar will be exhibiting the HDL-64E S2, a 64-element LIDAR sensor that delivers a 360-degree HFOV and a 26.8-degree VFOV. It generates more than 1.3 million distance points per second

More information on exhibiting companies and their products and services can be found here: http://www.robobusiness.com/highlights/cat/the_expo/expo_floor_preview.

The RoboBusiness Expo Hall is open Wednesday, April 15 from 11:00am – 5:00pm and on Thursday, April 16 from 11:00am – 4:00pm. RoboBusiness is a B2B professional conference and exposition; registration is reserved for professionals involved with the robotics industry. Complete event information and registration are available at http://www.robobusiness.com.

About RoboBusiness Conference & Exposition
RoboBusiness Conference & Exposition features a worldwide array of companies with emerging robotics and intelligent systems technologies within the Expo Floor, 30+ sessions, and exclusive Keynote Presentations. Conference program Tracks include:

• Business Development and Investment
• Technology and Standards
• Security, Defense and First Responder Robotics
• Consumer Robotics
• Healthcare Robotics / RoboMedicus
• Autonomy and Mobility

About Robotics Trends, Inc.
Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, Inc., is the world’s first integrated media firm serving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics marketplace. Robotics Trends services their clientele through two major business divisions:

• Robotics Trends Publishing, which produces http://www.roboticstrends.com, an online news, information and analysis portal focused on business and technology trends for people who build, buy, invest in, and seek to understand the personal, service, mobile and military robotics market; and Robotics Business Review, a subscription media product providing primary research, analysis and market observations for the robotics and intelligent systems industries.
• Robotics Trends Events, which produces the RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition (http://www.robodevelopment.com), RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition (http://www.robobusiness.com) and the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition.

About EH Publishing
EH Publishing, Inc. is the information leader and resource for the home electronic industry. Serving the technology and construction markets, EH Publishing, Inc. reaches more than half a million home electronic professionals, builders and consumers worldwide. Founded in 1994, EH Publishing, Inc. has defined, cultivated and raised awareness of the $15 billion electronic/installed home industry through its products, which include print publications, on-line publications, trade shows and market studies. EH Publishing, Inc. is the industry's source for home technology information and market analysis, with the targeted print and on-line publications: Electronic House, Home Electronic Ideas, CE Pro, CE Pro Retailing, ChannelPro, TecHome Builder, Live Sound, and targeted tradeshows: Electronic House Expo (EHX), Worship Facilities Conference & Expo (WFX), RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition, and RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition. To find out more, visit http://www.ehpub.com.  

Contact
For further information, contact Dan Kara at 508-663-1500 x329 or email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
 
For sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities, contact Ellen Cotton at 508-663-1500 x240 or email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
 
For media inquiries, contact Jessica Camerato at 508-663-1500 x296 or email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
 
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