Mobile & Embedded Developer Days
SUN Santa Clara Campus
2009 Jan 21-22

The second Mobile & Embedded Developer Days. Will be presenting Swarm of Brian and co-presenting Keppler's Orrery.

BOF-6620: Robot Fusion: Mobile Robots and Sun™ SPOTs Collaborate to Hunt Humans

Also look for TrackBot in the Java.net Community Corner, Robotics Community section.

See TrackBot and SunSPOT with major new code releases for each, and Greenfoot simulator for TrackBot. Bruce and Shawn will be presenting Robots on Screen and in Real Life: Greenfoot and TrackBot at the BlueJ/Greenfoot Day. Then Bruce is co-presenting a vendor session Thu, March 13 14:00-15:15 titled SunSpots and TrackBots on java.net

Look for us in the Sun booth where we will be appearing with TrackBot, Greenfoot, and Sun SPOT, with live demos.

Mobile & Embedded Developer Days in Santa Clara exceeded my expectations. Bruce presented Up Close and Personal with TrackBot and demonstrated a small swarm of TrackBots in person, with Sun SPOTs as the application brain. Sun did begin the open sourcing of Squawk, with GPL2 licensing and no classpath exception. Blogger Mary apparently really liked what she saw. Terrance Barr has a comprehensive wrapup and you can download the session slides and view some pictures including some of TrackBot display and solo and Bruce presenting in the SPOT contest. Here are some videos of Squawk VM with Eric Arseneau , SunSPOT with Roger Meike and the SPOT team, TrackBot Up Close with Bruce Boyes at 50:00 in, Sentilla WSN, and more. Interestingly, Ron Goldman, PhD, a key SPOT team member is also the author of Innnovation Happens Elsewhere. Sun announced the initial steps of open-sourcing the Squawk VM (get it here), under the GPL2 license without a classpath exception. This was reported by Paul Krill of infoworld here and here.

KTH - Royal Institute of Technology [Kungliga Tekniska högskolan] in Stockholm, 2007 Jan 12. Thank you to our host Anders Sjögren. Lunch and further discussion with Adam Edström, Editor at Large of Elektroniktidningen magazine, the leading Swedish electronics publication who had this to say.

Left on Sunday just before the peak of a major storm in the area.

See us in Booth 419. Bruce Boyes will be participating in a panel discussion "Development Issues in Intelligent Mobile Robotics", Thursday at 2PM. Here's a description: “The development of robots and robotic technology requires the mastery of multiple disciplines – primarily software development, mechanical and electrical engineering. Robotics development is made even more difficult as it is limited by embedded and real-time constraints. But real-time concerns are only the beginning, especially as robots and robotic technology become more prevalent in the home, the workplace and in public places. The next generation of robots and robotic devices must also be integrated with other systems in their environment. For both the hobbyist and professional developer, the choice of operating systems, development tools, platform software and hardware such as micro-controller and sensors, and a myriad of other options must be addressed. In this panel session, attendees will come to understand the most pressing issues in robotics development and learn about the products, tools and techniques that can be used to overcome them.”

In addition there is some evening OMG activity (Thu or Fri night? - can't find any link to it on the web).

Also: back by popular request: Jim Wright's JStamp-powered JavaNator man-versus-machine sumo robots will be appearing again, probably for the last time.

OMG Robotics Specifications
2005 Sep 12-16, Atlanta, GA

Bruce Boyes spoke at, attended the technical conference, and exhibited JCX.

If you have practical experience in robotics, would you like to contribute to emerging robotics standards?

2005 June 27-30
SanFransisco, California, USA

Read the transcript or listen to the audio here

TS-1464: Self-Configuring Smart Java Robots through Plug and Play I/O Boards
Track: Cool Stuff, Session Type: Technical Case Studies
Thursday 06/30/05 1:15-2:15 PM Gateway 104

Abstract:
Imagine that it is your task to maintain and program a swarm of 'N' autonomous robots, where 'N' can be twenty or more. All your robots have some hardware in common, but also differ in their sensors and effectors. How do you avoid having 'N' different code bases to maintain? We solved this problem by adding
descriptive tagging memory to each hardware board in each robot. This memory makes each I/O board "plug and play" so that one common code base can auto-configure itself to each robot on which it is deployed.

Some portion of the 10,000 attendees saw Systronix and the real, live, production version of JCX at RoboNexus, booth 1108, Oct 21-23, Santa Clara, CA. RoboNexus is a multifaceted international forum bringing together all of the major players driving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics markets. RoboNexus includes over 50,000 square feet of expo and will feature the latest robotics products, technologies and applications. This was the first conference and exhibit of this magnitude in North America.

Press release from Robotic Trends 2004 Oct 27