Jan Zizka standing subsequent to Brightpick’s Autopicker. | Supply: Brightpick
Whereas humanoids have been dominating headlines and bringing in huge funding rounds, one other sort of know-how has been quietly rising: cellular manipulators. Proponents of those robots say they’ve all the identical flexibility as humanoids whereas coming in a safer and already confirmed wheeled kind issue.
At RoboBusiness 2025, which takes place Oct. 15 and16 on the Santa Clara Conference Middle, attendees can learn the way cellular manipulators can obtain duties past human functionality with out the bounds of a humanoid kind. Geared up with imaginative and prescient, mobility, dexterous arms, and AI-driven controls, these techniques can ship superhuman efficiency. They’ll execute a number of duties directly, deal with larger payloads, and transfer with unmatched velocity.
Jan Zizka, the CEO and co-founder at Brightpick, will lead a session on “The Rise of Cellular Manipulation” at 1:30 p.m. PT on the primary day of the present. He’ll study the most recent developments in cellular manipulation, with a heightened give attention to Brightpick’s Autopicker 2.0 and its use of AI.
Zizka may even discover real-world deployments and present how firms are leveraging these applied sciences to spice up effectivity and scale operations. He goals to supply a transparent take a look at how cellular manipulators are reshaping the robotics panorama right this moment.
Dr. Zizka is co-founder and CEO and co-founder of Erlanger, Ky.-based Brightpick. A know-how visionary, he has Brightpick’s technique and is carefully concerned in growing new robotics and AI applied sciences.
Zizka has filed greater than 20 patents, starting from 3D sensing strategies to cellular robotics, and is a acknowledged professional within the fields of AI, machine imaginative and prescient, and warehouse automation. Autopicker earned Brightpick a 2024 RBR50 Utility of the 12 months award.
Earlier than co-founding Brightpick, Zizka co-founded and led Photoneo. That firm is now a worldwide chief in 3D machine imaginative and prescient, with prospects comparable to Normal Motors, Volkswagen, and KUKA. Zizka earned a Ph.D. in pc imaginative and prescient from Comenius College. He additionally did analysis on computational cameras and optics at MIT.
Register for RoboBusiness right this moment!
Based in 2004, RoboBusiness is the premier occasion for builders and suppliers of economic robots. The occasion is produced by WTWH Media, which additionally produces The Robotic Report, Automated Warehouse, and the Robotics Summit & Expo.
This 12 months’s convention may even function greater than 60 audio system, a startup workshop, the annual Pitchfire competitors, and quite a few networking alternatives. Over 100 exhibitors on the present ground will showcase their newest enabling applied sciences, merchandise, and providers to assist resolve your robotics improvement challenges.
RoboBusiness might be co-located with DeviceTalks West, the premier trade occasion for medical know-how professionals. Each occasions entice engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical know-how backgrounds.
Registration is now open for RoboBusiness 2025.
For details about sponsorship and exhibition alternatives, please contact Colleen Sepich at csepich[AT]wtwhmedia.com.
