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Title:

Johnny-5 Comes Alive – How Online Communities Impact Robotics

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Organizer:
Deirdre Walsh, National Instruments
Description:
Bill Gates compares today's robotics industry to the PC industry 30 years ago. We’re on the brink of breakthroughs in commercial technology that will allow geeks to run wild developing robots, just like they did with PC's in the 1980s. This session will explore how online communities impact this emerging field.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What defines a robot?
  2. How is the robotics industry changed in the past two decades?
  3. What commercial, off-the-shelf technologies are enabling mobile robotics?
  4. How do modern robots sense, think, and act?
  5. How do online communities help with robotics development?
  6. What are the coolest robots on the market?
  7. What are the coolest robots not on the market?
  8. How is robotics improving engineering education in the US?
  9. Who are the leading players in the robotics space?
  10. How can the average geek build a robot?
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Community / Online Community, Education, Government and Technology, New Technology / Next Generation, Social Networking
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Emilie Kopp
on 1/9/09
This session will be a tag-team effort between me (Robotics Business Developer at National Instruments) and Deirdre (Community and Social Media Strategist, also at National Instruments). Plus we'll be bringing in some leading robotics experts from industry and academic institutions to participate on the panel.

So here's how the session will go down:
Disruptive technologies like the PC and the Internet have changed our way of life. Robotics stands to make the same magnitude of impact. However, the robotics industry suffers from a critical roadblock. Namely, when someone wants to build a robot, they typically have to start from scratch. Roboticists today are creating their own, home-grown, in-house solutions.

It is not until roboticists start embracing each other's breakthroughs and sharing their technologies that the robotics industry will take off as the PC industry did 30 years ago. Online communities play a large part in how roboticists can help each other... that's Deirdre comes in. Take it away D!
Deirdre Walsh
on 1/9/09
As the Community & Social Media Manager at National Instruments, I manage a global, online community for 125,000 engineers working on applications ranging from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT software to hardware for the CERN supercollider.

In this panel, I will show how social media technologies, like online networks and blogs, can improve product development, increase customer loyalty, drive revenue, and reduce support costs in the robotics space.

Please find me and Emilie on Twitter to find out more about our panel:
@deirdrewalsh and @iemilie
Joe Quinn
on 9/9/09
This would be an excellent session.
iphone ringtone maker
on 13/11/09
I'd be super into learning from Kris. Dig it!
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