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Humanoid robots have captured the general public creativeness and thousands and thousands in funding prior to now few years. However how shut are they to widespread use? A keynote panel at RoboBusiness 2025 will study the humanoid deployments and the prospects for know-how growth and commercialization.
The session, “Classes Discovered from First Humanoid Deployments,” might be on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 10:30 a.m. PT within the Santa Clara Conference Middle. It is going to characteristic business leaders pioneering rollouts in a candid dialog about what’s working for humanoids, what nonetheless wants enchancment, and the important thing engineering classes so far.
Specialists to share insights into humanoid deployments
The keynote panelists at RoboBusiness will embrace:
Jim Fan is director of AI and a distinguished analysis scientist at NVIDIA. His acknowledged mission is “to construct typically succesful brokers throughout bodily worlds (robotics) and digital worlds (video games, simulation).”
Fan mentioned his analysis “explores the bleeding edge” of multimodal basis fashions, reinforcement studying, pc imaginative and prescient, and large-scale techniques. He was the primary intern at OpenAI and likewise interned at Baidu AI Labs and Mila, the Quebec Synthetic Intelligence Institute.
At OpenAI, Fan labored with AI pioneers Ilya Sutskever and Andrej Karpathy on World of Bits, an agent that perceived the net browser in pixels and output keyboard/mouse management, effectively earlier than massive language fashions (LLMs).
As well as, Fan spearheaded Voyager (the primary AI agent to play Minecraft proficiently and bootstrap its capabilities repeatedly), MineDojo (a NeurIPS award-winning open-ended agent that discovered by watching 100,000s of Minecraft YouTube movies), Eureka (a 5-finger dexterous robotic hand that might do duties like pen spinning), and VIMA (one of many earliest multimodal basis fashions for robotic manipulation).
Fan has a Ph.D. from Stanford Imaginative and prescient Lab, suggested by Prof. Fei-Fei Li. He was the valedictorian of the Class of 2016 and obtained the Illig Medal at Columbia College.
Katlyn Lewicke is head of worldwide automation technique and intel at GXO Logistics. Previous to this position, they served because the director of company initiatives and as a senior venture supervisor in world finance at GXO Logistics.
Lewicke additionally labored at XPO Logistics Europe as a senior venture supervisor in European Finance. They gained expertise in enterprise intelligence, European finance, and strategic initiatives at XPO Logistics Europe.
Earlier than that, Lewicke labored at XPO Logistics within the workplace of the chairman and CEO. As well as, they’ve expertise in threat administration and ceded reinsurance from W. R. Berkley Corp. Lewicke has a Bachelor of Arts diploma in historical past from Smith School and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society.
Melonee Clever is chief product officer at humanoid developer Agility Robotics. She has a deep historical past in creating autonomous robots and advancing the robotics business as we all know it at this time.
Previous to becoming a member of Agility in 2023, Clever was the vp of robotics automation at Zebra Applied sciences. She was CEO of Fetch Robotics till its acquisition by Zebra Applied sciences in 2021.
Clever was the second worker at Willow Storage, the place she led a group of engineers creating next-generation robotic {hardware} and software program, together with ROS, the PR2, and TurtleBot.
Clever has obtained many accolades and awards together with the MIT Expertise Overview TR35, Silicon Valley Enterprise Journal’s Ladies of Affect and 40 Beneath 40, Provide & Demand Chain Government’s 2021 Provide Chain Lady of the Yr, the 2022 Engelberger award, and as certainly one of eight CEOs altering the way in which we work by Enterprise Insider. She obtained a BS in mechanical engineering and physics engineering and an MS in mechanical engineering from the College of Illinois.
Register now for RoboBusiness 2025
RoboBusiness is the premiere occasion for builders and suppliers of economic robots. The occasion is produced by WTWH Media, which additionally produces The Robotic Report, Automated Warehouse, and the Robotics Summit & Expo.
This 12 months’s convention will embrace greater than 60 audio system, a startup workshop, the annual Pitchfire competitors, and quite a few networking alternatives. Over 100 exhibitors on the present flooring will showcase their newest enabling applied sciences, merchandise, and providers to assist resolve your robotics growth challenges.
RoboBusiness may also characteristic six convention tracks masking:
- Humanoids (new for 2025)
- Bodily AI (new for 2025)
- Discipline robotics (expanded for 2025)
- Enterprise growth
- Enabling applied sciences
- Design and growth greatest practices
RoboBusiness might be co-located with DeviceTalks West, the premier business occasion for medical know-how professionals. Each occasions appeal to engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical know-how backgrounds.
Registration is now open for RoboBusiness 2025.
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