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Object Management Group
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OMG Sponsoring RoboNexus Robotics Conference;
OMG Robotics SIG to Hold Special Meeting
Dr. Richard Soley and Dr. Jon Siegel of OMG to
present on software standards at conference
Needham, MA, USA - August 26, 2005 - The Object Management Group™
(OMG™), today announced that OMG is sponsoring the RoboNexus Conference
and Exhibition this October in San Jose, California and that the OMG
Robotics Special Interest Group, which develops software standards for the
robotics industry, will hold a special information Birds of a Feather
meeting during the conference.
The OMG Robotics Special Interest Group (SIG) will be holding a
Robotics Standards Birds of a Feather meeting on Thursday, October 6, 2005
at the conference. The Robotics SIG, which recently issued a Request for
Information (RFI) to the public as it ramps up its standards work, will be
giving an overview on their standards work and the RFI at the meeting, as
well as insight into the Request for Proposal (RFP) work underway to
develop personal robotics and automation platform standardization. All
registered conference attendees are invited to attend this special meeting
and learn more about the OMG Robotics SIG and the work it will be doing in
robotics standards. For the RFI, visit http://www.omg.org/robotics_rfi.
For more information on the OMG Robotics Special Interest Group, visit
http://robotics.omg.org/.
For meeting registration information, go to
http://www.robonexus.com/registration.htm.
During the conference, billed as "The Business Development,
Educational and Consumer Event for Personal, Service and Mobile
Robotics," Dr. Richard Soley, OMG's Chairman and CEO, will give a
presentation entitled "Standards are Boring." Additionally, Dr.
Jon Siegel, OMG's Vice President of Technology Transfer will give the
presentation, "Software Standards in Robotics."
"The robotics industry is booming and making huge strides in
software; nevertheless, widespread adoption of personal robotics systems
will await the arrival of broadly adopted application portability and
interoperability standards for service robots. The OMG Robotics Special
Interest Group is leading the way in standards efforts, which will create
an open marketplace for interoperable applications that can run on any
robotics platform," said Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO of OMG.
"RoboNexus, as the premier robotics event, is an ideal event for us
to sponsor and participate in."
"Robotics Trends is delighted to be working with the Object
Management Group on the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition," notes
Dan Kara, President of Robotics Trends. "The personal, service and
mobile robotics industry, which has both business-to-business and consumer
components to it, is poised for rapid and dramatic growth. However, for
this new industry to realize its potential, standards must be in place.
The Object Management Group, a well-respected, international standards
body, is leading the standards efforts in this exciting new field. We
welcome their contribution."
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