Keynotes 2019

Adam Cantor is a career Roboticist and Futurist. The current Director of Engineering at Robots In Service of the Environment, Adam acts as the primary R&D lead for all platforms and innovations. With 10 years of robotics research in intelligent […]

Howie Choset is a Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University where he serves as the co-director of the Biorobotics Lab and as director of the Robotics Major. He received his undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Business from the […]

Prior to being named CEO at TRI-AD in March 2018, Dr. Kuffner was the Chief Technology Officer at TRI. Dr. Kuffner received a Ph.D. from the Stanford University Dept. of Computer Science Robotics Laboratory in 1999, and was a Japan […]

John McElligott is founder and Chief Executive Officer of York Exponential, a Pennsylvania based collaborative robotics and artificial intelligence company. Originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, he grew up in a missionary family that traveled throughout Europe. As a young adult, John […]

Kristen joined the inVia Robotics team in 2018, bringing more than 20 years of experience in marketing, tech, digital media and e-commerce from her various executive marketing positions at companies such as FedEx, AT&T and LifeSeasons. In her role as […]

Dr. Robin R. Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a director of Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, specializing in human-robot interaction and human-centered AI for ground, air, and marine robots. […]

Doug Olson joined the Harmonic Drive group of companies in 1991 as an application engineer, and has acquired a broad range of in-depth experience into the design of servo actuators and gear systems for robots and factory automation equipment. Doug […]

Keith Shaw is the Editor-in-chief of Robotics Business Review, a sister publication of The Robot Report. An award-winning journalist, he has worked as an editor for Network World, Computerworld and various newspapers across Massachusetts, New York, and Florida. He holds […]