Platinum Sponsor
AIRA
Airalab concerns itself with putting the idea of robot economics into life. The team puts its heart and soul into the project AIRA (Autonomous Intelligent Robot Agent) which allows plugging robots into the liability market existing in Ethereum for direct data sales from robot sensors, service order of unmanned transport logistics and order of individual goods at a robot-based plant.
Gold Sponsor
Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT)
Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) is a multi- disciplinary university engaging with the international community, famous with its engineering discipline ranking ESI world’s top 1%. In the past 60 years, the university has become a key educational and research institution in Southern China. Located in Guangzhou, the third largest city in China, GDUT has three campuses with a total area of more than 550 acres. Boasting 19 schools and with more than 2000 full-time faculty members, the University offers a wide range of programs in science, technology, business management, and social science, for over 44,000 students at Bachelor, Master and Doctoral levels. GDUT also enrolls international students and researchers.
Bosch
Bosch is a German multinational technology company with core products in automotive components, industrial technologies, building products and consumer goods. Driven by the premise "invented for life," the company invests strongly in R&D (7 billons Euros in 2016) creating one invention reports every 22 minutes. Bosch Corporate Research is the R&D spearhead with over 1600 researchers at 12 international locations. Robotics research at Bosch comprises more than 100 robotics researchers worldwide working on exciting problems for consumer robots, collaborative production assistants, transportation platforms, self-driving cars, exoskeletons, or subsea robots. Bosch is currently intensifying its robotics research efforts and almost always hiring robotics experts.
Silver Sponsors
Amazon
Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers, sellers and developers.
Clearpath Robotics
Clearpath Robotics is a global leader in unmanned vehicle robotics for research and development, and provides hardware, software and services to enable self-driving vehicle development, deployment, and operation. Clearpath works with over 500 of the world’s most innovative brands in over 40 countries, serving markets that span industrial materials handling, mining, military, agriculture, aerospace, and academia.
KUKA
KUKA is a global automation corporation with sales of around 3 billion euro and around 13,200 employees. As leading global supplier of intelligent automation solutions, KUKA offers its customers in the automotive, electronics, consumer goods, metalworking, logistics/e-commerce, healthcare, and service robotics industries everything they need from a single source: from components and cells to fully automated systems. The KUKA Group is headquartered in Augsburg.
Bronze Sponsors
Intuitive Surgical
The idea of surgical robotics was little more than a curiosity until 1999, the year Intuitive Surgical introduced the da Vinci® Surgical System. Today, Intuitive Surgical is the global leader in the rapidly emerging field of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery.
The Company's da Vinci® Surgical System enables surgeons to operate minimally invasively through a few small incisions or the belly button from a nearby ergonomic console. The da Vinci System features a magnified 3D HD vision system and tiny wristed instruments that bend and rotate far greater than the human hand. As a result of this technology, da Vinci enables surgeons to operate with enhanced vision, precision and control. Intuitive Surgical designed the da Vinci Xi System with the goal of further advancing the technology used in minimally invasive surgery for complex diseases and conditions.
iRobot Corp.
iRobot Corporation, with a mission of “empowering people to do more” is at the forefront of the development of robotics and artificial intelligence technologies. iRobot has become one of the world’s preeminent specialist designers and builders of consumer robots. iRobot invests in the development and growth of its people, in a culture of empowerment, innovation and fun. Come work with some of the most talented and influential people in the robotics field utilizing cutting edge technologies, in an exciting, fast-growing industry!
Khalifa University
The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) is an international robotics competition, to be held every two years with the total prize and team sponsorship of USD 5 Million. Robotics has the potential to have an impact that is as transformative as the Internet, with robotics technology poised to fuel a broad range of next-generation products and applications in a diverse array of fields. Robotic competitions in the past few decades have been a catalyst that has accelerated the rate of technological advancements in the field of robotics and autonomous systems. MBZIRC aims to provide an ambitious, science-based, and technologically demanding set of challenges in Robotics, open to a large number of international teams. It is intended to demonstrate the current state of the art in robotics regarding scientific and technological accomplishments and to inspire the future of robotics. Similar to other major competitions, the MBZIRC aims to provide an environment that harbors innovation and technical excellence, while encouraging spectacular performance with robotics technologies.
MathWorks
The MATLAB and Simulink product families are fundamental applied math and computational tools adopted by more than 5000 universities and colleges. MathWorks products help prepare students for careers in industry, where the tools are widely used for data analysis, mathematical modeling, and algorithm development in collaborative research and new product development.
New Dexterity
Kia ora! New Dexterity provides robotics solutions to everyday life problems, modeling, designing and controlling novel robotics and bionics hardware (specializes on robot grippers and hands, robot grasping and dexterous, in-hand manipulation). The New Dexterity research team is affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The goal of the team is to provide a new class of adaptive mechanisms that will help robots to interact with unstructured and dynamic environments and execute dexterous tasks.
Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
Honda Research Institute provides excellence and expertise in the core technologies that are required for Honda to lead the transition to an Intelligent Cyber-Physical society. Our group of scientists and engineers in Japan, United States and Germany maintain a commitment to high quality and innovative research and promote partnerships with academia and industry.
Genesis Robotics
Genesis Robotics is a research and development company focused on inventing new solutions to some of the significant challenges of our time. Genesis Robotics has a team of 50+ individuals focused on the development of its LiveDrive technology. LiveDrive is the world’s highest performance direct-drive motor, powering the fastest, safest and most versatile robots.
Kinova Robotics
Kinova is a Canadian company that designs and manufactures robotics platforms that are simple, sexy and safe. We work so that robots evolve from improving manufacturing capability to empowering people. Assistive Robotics empowers people with disabilities to push beyond their current boundaries. Innovation Robotics empowers people in industry and research to interact with their environment more efficiently and safely.
PerceptIn
Founded in 2016, PerceptIn is a full-stack visual intelligence company, which develops scalable hardware/software integrated solutions for autonomous robotic systems. PerceptIn‘s accurate and efficient vision-based robotic systems enable different form factors of robots to perceive the environment with simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM), and to perform path planning, obstacle avoidance, and advanced scene understanding.
Halodi Robotics
At Halodi we are passionate about robots. Our mission is to bring capable humanoid robots to everyone. To achieve this, we have developed Eve, a general purpose full-size humanoid robot platform, capable of a wide variety of tasks. After developing key and game changing technology, and successfully securing funding, we are preparing to scale up our organization to further develop our robot and handle production.
OPENING RECEPTION SPONSOR
GENESIS ROBOTICS
Genesis Robotics is a research and development company focused on inventing new solutions to some of the significant challenges of our time. Genesis Robotics has a team of 50+ individuals focused on the development of its LiveDrive technology. LiveDrive is the world’s highest performance direct-drive motor, powering the fastest, safest and most versatile robots.
CLOSING RECEPTION SPONSOR
TOYOTA
TRI's mission is to use artificial intelligence to improve the quality of human life. We are dedicated to making automobiles safer, more affordable, and more accessible to everyone, regardless of age or ability, and to expanding the benefit of mobility technology beyond automobiles, for example to in-home support of older persons and those with special needs.
AWARDS LUNCH Sponsor
ARM
Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate. Our advanced, energy-efficient processor designs are enabling the intelligence in 100 billion silicon chips and securely powering products from the sensor to the smartphone to the supercomputer. With more than 1,000 technology partners including the world's largest business and consumer brands, we are driving Arm innovation into all areas compute is happening inside the chip, the network and the cloud.
BANQUET SPONSOR
NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.
LANYARD SPONSOR
Harmonic Drive
Harmonic Drive designs and manufactures high precision servo actuators, gearheads and gear component sets. We work with companies of all sizes to provide the right solution, whether it is a standard catalog product, or fully customized integrated solution. Known for our expert engineering and manufacturing, Harmonic Drive products are relied upon every day throughout the robotics industry.
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