All times are recorded in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), UTC-4
Saturday, 10th of June
Session 1: Robot Arms
10:00 – 11:00 KUKA Research and Development
11:00 – 11:30 Harrison Low – Juggling Robot
11:30 – 11:45 Jan Veverak Koniarik – Open Source Servo Firmware
11:45 – 12:00 Rafael Diaz – Soft Robot Tentacle
12:00 – 12:30 Petar Crnjak – DIY 6-Axis Robot Arm
Lunch Break
Session 2: Social, Domestic, and Hobbyist Robots
14:00 – 15:00 Eliot Horowitz (CEO of VIAM) – The Era of Robotics Unicorns
15:00 – 15:30 Niranj S – Mini Humanoid Robot
15:30 – 15:45 Tommy Hedlund – Interactive Robot with ChatFPT
15:45 – 16:00 Emilie Kroeger – ChatGPT Integration for the Pepper Robot
16:00 – 16:15 Matt Vella – Retrofitting an Omnibot 2000 with a Raspberry Pi
16:15 – 16:30 Keegan Neave – NE-Five Mk3
16:30 – 17:00 Dan Nicholson – Open Source Companion Robot
Sunday, 11th of June
Session 1: Autonomous Mobile Robots
10:00 – 11:00 Jack Morrison (Scythe Robotics) – Off-roading Robots: Bringing Autonomy to Unstructured, Outdoor Environments
11:00 – 11:30 Ciaran Dowds – Sailing into the Future: Oshen’s Mini, Autonomous Robo-Vessels for Enhanced Ocean Exploration
11:30 – 12:00 James Clayton – Giant, Walking Spider Suit with Real Flowers
12:00 – 12:15 Jacob David Cunningham – SLAM by Blob Tracking and Inertial Tracking
12:15 – 12:30 Dimitar Bezhanovski – Mobile UGV Platform
12:30 – 13:00 Saksham Sharma – Multi-Robot Path Planning Using Priority Based Algorithm
Lunch Break
Session 2: Startup & Solutions
14:00 – 15:00 Joe Castagneri (AMP Robotics) – The Reality of Robotic Systems
15:00 – 15:30 Daniel Simu – Acrobot, the Acrobatic Robot
15:30 – 15:45 Luis Guzman – Zeus2Q, the Humanoid Robotic Platform
15:45 – 16:15 Kshitij Tiwari – The State of Robotic Touch Sensing
16:15 – 16:30 Sayak Nandi – ROS Robots as a Web Application
16:30 – 16:45 Ishant Pundir – Asper and Osmos: A Personal Robot and AI-Based OS
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