INNOROBO, the innovation robotic summit, is gathering a thorough representation of the international service robotics community and targeted professionals interested in the various fields of applications of this fast emerging industry, through a cycle of high end conferences and a dedicated exhibition hall. During 3 days, professionals and visionaries will come and share their expertise and knowledge on how tomorrow’s robots from the service robotics industry could be our companion, care taker, assistant and prolong the human abilities to help us solve societal issues we already have and will face soon.
Several themes will be highlighted during the cycle of conferences:
Industrial robotics is evolving towards new industries as well as smaller firms. It needs to reinvent itself and produce more flexible, mobile, easily trainable robots to work hand in hand with human workers. 
Martin HÄGELE - Germany
Head of the Robot Systems Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Frank TOBE - USA
Owner and publisher of The Robot Report.
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RACHID ALAMI - France
CNRS Research Director
LAAS Robotics and Artificial intelligence Group.
Full bio soon on www.innorobo.com
Medical robotics is considered one of the success-stories of service robotics. It is a prominent segment of growth driven by demographic shifts, rising prosperity in developing countries and advances in medical technology. 
Yoshisuki SANKAI - Japan
Professor of the Graduate School of Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba, Director of Cybernics Center and president and CEO of CYBERDYNE Inc.
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Soya TAKAGI – Japan
Senior General Manager of the Partner Robot Development Division (PRDD) within Toyota Motor Corporation.
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Other speakers on this particular topic to be announced soon on www.innorobo.com
One vision for the future features a generation of robots designed to play various roles in our urban society. Moreover, we believe intelligent robotics to be a potential solution to major societal challenges. Robotics can solve our issues of mobility within an overwhelming urbanization context, and be an asset for sustainable development while answering our demanding energy consumption.
Claude LAURGEAU - France
Founder of the Robotics Centre at Mines ParisTech in 1988 and its Director until 2008.
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User-centered design is a must for robots to truly become a mass market. Although technologies progress rapidly, and despite the impressive demonstrations of humanoid robots from Japan or elsewhere, we are not there yet. Hence the shape of robots has to be driven both by its functions and by our human expectations and perceptions.
Takanori SH
IBATA - Japan
Senior research scientist at AIST since ’98.
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Every file, document, database and digital information is now going through the “Cloud”. What does it mean for our future, with machine to machine communication, connectivity for each and every of our daily life object? The imaginary world of Matrix is not so far away: your personal robot can learn with a simple download from the Cloud how to fly a helicopter or cook the perfect dinner.
Robert S. BAUER - USA
Executive Director at Willow Garage.
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Tim Field – USA
Founder of the Heaphy project at Willow Garage.
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On Friday the 16th of March, GDR , the open French Research Group in Robotics established by the CNRS will hold a technical conference on SLAM – Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.
Stay tuned for other information on our conference program and keynote speakers on www.innorobo.com. Hot news soon to come !
Don’t forget you can register online to attend the conference directly on our web site.
The event program is now being finalized on our website: check out for the program here! Any change and news will be posted on our website.
We expect over a 100 exhibitors with exceptional robots coming from Korea, Japan, USA and of course Europe. Check out for the list here. A dedicated newsletter will be posted in February.
Closing of the exhibitors registration end of January! Don’t forget to apply!
See the exhibitor guide here & the location still available here.
We have special rates agreement with some hotels near the exhibition center, please apply here for Hotel queries.
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Innorobo – 14th to 15th of March 2012, in Lyon, France – is gathering the thinkers and doers of service robotics and intelligent distributed systems to accelerate the emergence of such innovations. Check out the exhibitors page on our website and join us to exhibit your product and associated services.
Call for papers/speakersWe received amazing papers from researchers and business professionals and we are hungry for more. Check our Call for papers, the deadline is moved to end of December. It is an ideal support to publish and disseminate your researches outcome or to share your out of the box thinking about service robotics. Apply here |
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We already have more than 60 exhibitors from 9 countries in Asia, North America and Europe who confirmed their attendance and 25% of them are exhibiting for the first time their amazing robotic solutions. We gather the players of the service robotics ecosystem. The exhibition area consists mainly of business professionals - technology, hardware, software – with creators, suppliers and distributors, but major high end laboratories and educational institutions are also participating, demonstrating the latest results of their research programs and know-how. With 100% satisfaction and business deals closed in the first edition, no doubt you can find the right partner, supplier or customer at Innorobo 2012. 
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Industrial robotics is well-known for its applications in welding, soldering, handling, assembling,... For the automotive, metal, plastic and chemical industries. But Industrial robotics is now evolving towards new industries as well as smaller firms. It needs to invent and produce innovative industrial robots, more flexible, mobile and more importantly working hand in hand with human workers. The human robot interactions in factories and Cobotics are some hot subjects demonstrating the synergies and convergence that are promised to happen between industrial and service robotics technologies and solutions. 
The growth of medical robots since the mid-80s has been overwhelming, both as a field of innovation and research and also as a market for new products and services. Medical robotics is considered one of the success-stories of service robotics. It is one prominent segment of growth for service robotics, driven by demographic shifts, rising prosperity in developing countries and advances in medical technology. 
One vision for the future features a generation of robots designed to play various roles in urban society. Some robots will be guides for tourists, some will help the elderly, some will make sure megacities are safe and others will collect our rubbish. Beyond this perspective of Urban Robots, we shall envision intelligent robotics distributed systems to solve our major societal challenges: Mobility solutions with an overwhelming urbanization, assistance to the citizens in megacities with twice as many elderly people in 30 years than today, sustainable development for our planet to survive our demanding energy consumption.