From left to proper: Rodney Brooks, Jonathan Hurst, and Ken Goldberg.
Robotics has advanced from a promising expertise right into a essential enterprise device throughout manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, protection, and past. At RoboBusiness 2026, which takes place Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif., trade leaders will replicate on the breakthroughs that outlined the previous twenty years.
Within the present’s opening keynote session, as RoboBusiness marks its twentieth anniversary, leaders in robotics will discover the applied sciences, markets, alternatives, and challenges that may form the following 20 years.
The session, which is able to begin at 9:15 a.m. PT, will function insights from Rodney Brooks, co-founder and chief expertise officer of Strong AI; Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robotic officer of Agility Robotics; and Ken Goldberg, William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley. Steve Crowe, the chief editor of The Robotic Report, will reasonable the discuss.
Meet the opening keynote audio system
Brooks has labored in AI and robotics for greater than 50 years. He had a full-stack tutorial profession at Stanford and MIT, ultimately changing into the founding director of the MIT Pc Science and Synthetic Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Brooks and his college students constructed the primary cellular robots that moved amongst folks and at human speeds, after which the primary humanoid robots that used AI pc imaginative and prescient and easy speech understanding to work together with folks.
Brooks additionally co-founded and led expertise improvement at a collection of AI and robotics corporations beginning with an AI software program firm in Palo Alto in 1984 that supported the primary era of deployed AI techniques. His later corporations have delivered tens of thousands and thousands of robots (Roombas) into folks’s properties, hundreds of floor robots to the U.S. army in Iraq, and hundreds of upper-torso humanoid robots to factories internationally. As we speak, Brooks’ newest firm, Strong.AI, is deploying human-centered clever powered carts to achievement facilities and factories.
Alongside along with his roles at Agility, Hurst is a professor and co-founder of the Oregon State College Robotics Institute. His analysis goals to allow robots to bodily work together with the world and folks, specializing in compliance, dexterity, and mobility present in animals.
At present, Hurst works on bodily AI to facilitate complicated loco-manipulation behaviors, exemplified by Digit, the primary commercially deployed humanoid robotic in logistics. This effort goals to boost productiveness and enhance high quality of life by integrating robots into on a regular basis environments.
Goldberg is the director of the AUTOLab and CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative on the College of California Berkeley. He’s additionally chair of Industrial Engineering and Operations Analysis, with secondary appointments in EECS, Artwork Follow, the Faculty of Data, and UCSF Radiation Oncology.
Register now for RoboBusiness 2026
RoboBusiness 2026 is the main occasion for business robotics builders. Attendees on the present will acquire the newest insights from specialists in robotics and AI on cutting-edge analysis, trade traits, and revolutionary purposes in sectors reminiscent of manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, logistics, and extra.
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