12:45–12:55

Mr. Hajime Saito (Chief Engineer, Kawada Robotics Corp.)

"A new development platform for collaborative robot research"

Dr. Shigeo Hirose
(Director and CTO, HiBot Corp.)

“Robots for the critical and hazardous environment”

Dr. Torsten Kroeger
(Reflexxes)

“The Reflexxes Motion Libraries
 – Instantaneous Trajectory Generation for Robots”

Mr. Koichiro Hayashi
(IHI Corporation)

“Development of Precision Finishing Robot System”

12:55–13:05

Dr. Nick T. K. Lau (Director of R&D, Pho Imaging)

“Cost-Effective High-Speed High-Definition Imaging Products for Research”

Mr. Adam Gryfe
(Manager of Business Development, Clearpath Robotics)

“Unmanned Vehicles for Field Research: Boldly Go Where No Robot Has Gone Before”

Dr. Alexander Carballo
(Hokuyo Automatic Co., Ltd.)

“Smaller and lighter new laser range scanner”

Mr. Francois Boucher
(Kinova)

“Kinova: designer of real lightweight robot arm”

13:05–13:15

Dr. Jeremy Fishel (Director of Research, SynTouch LLC)

“SynTouch: The Future of Machine Touch”

Mr. Jean-Philippe Jobin
(Robotiq)

“Robotiq Adaptive Grippers”

Mr. Francois Conti
(Force Dimension)

“CHAI3D 3.0 – An open source framework for haptic simulation”

Mr. Brian Zenowich
(Barrett Technology)

“The New BarrettHAND”