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TEMPERANCE Bedford High Schools robotics team added another notch to its belt at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in St. Louis.

Although the Express didnt repeat its 2015 success of capturing a world title, the team did go home with one of the most prestigious pieces of recognition up for grabs: the Engineering Inspiration Award.

The award recognizes outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a teams school and community, and automatically qualifies them for next years world championship event in Detroit. NASA will also pick up the tab for next years $5,000 registration fee.

It was very surprising and probably one of the best feelings Ive ever had at a robotics competition, said senior Olivia Miller, who serves as electronics captain. I know the amount of effort we put into that award was all worth it. Its really exciting knowing our team is going to worlds next year because of our efforts.

Coach Debbie May said more than 120 teams were up for the award.

The Express made it out of the qualifying round at the tournament last weekend, finishing 16th. They teamed with the WildStangs from Arlington Heights, Ill., and Gompei and the HERD from Worcester, Mass., to form their alliance.

As the 8th-ranked alliance, Bedfords group had to face the top-ranked alliance in the first elimination round match.

The matches are three versus three, so its always a little dependent on luck and how good the other teams are that youre with, Ms. May said. We were not always partnered with teams who were able to perform the same [as us], so it made it a little tough.

Bedfords alliance won the first match in the best-of-three series, but dropped the final two. One of the teams on the opposing alliance from Greenville, Texas, has won multiple world championships.

A former member of the Express is interning there, and serves as a mentor to the team.

We were 16th in our division and beat one of the best teams in the world, senior and build captain Charlie Cook said. Overall, we performed very well. It was a fun match.

This years FIRST gameplay theme was steamworks. The object of each match was to make an airship take flight by retrieving gears with your robot.

Once 13 gears were placed, four rotors on top of the airship began to spin.

There was something that involved climbing a rope that was four or five feet high, said senior Sam Synowka, a member of the drive team. Sometimes robots would climb and it would either fail to stay up or the rope would break, so the robot would fall.

The Express had a 100 percent success rate in climbing the rope, which was the final step of this years matches.

Teams are given six weeks before the competition season begins to build their robots. During that time, most students log more than 200 hours perfecting their machine.

This coming weekend will be the first one theyve had free since January, Ms. May said. Its going to be hard to let go of this class. We always say its not just about the robot; the robot is the vehicle to get these kids inspired. Thats the type of thing that keeps me invested in this program.

Contact Jay Skebba at:jskebba@theblade.com,419-376-9414, or on Twitter @JaySkebbaBlade.

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Bedford High robotics team inspires - Toledo Blade

Jewish students recently enjoyed working with their classmates in teams while participating in the first Miami Jewish Day School Robotics Festival at Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami Beach.

This festival was hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education in Miami in collaboration with the Yerucham Science Center in Israel and showcased the technological creations of students from Scheck Hillel and the Hebrew Academy (RASG) and Lehrman Community Day School, both in Miami Beach. All three schools are first-year participants in the Miami Jewish Day School Robotics Program, an innovative approach to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education that combines mathematics and science with Lego education and enables participating third- and fourth-grade students to grasp robotics principles and work collaboratively to solve problems.

This program is funded through a $40,000 grant from the Miami/Yerucham Partnership, a collaboration between the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and its Israeli partnership city of Yerucham, and facilitated by CAJE, a subsidiary agency of the Federation.

Valerie Mitrani, CAJE's director of day school strategy and initiatives, said the recent festival was exciting.

"It was really the culmination of a year with lots of exciting learning in the schools and it was our first attempt to do something like this and we were very pleased with the results."

Mitrani noted that the students were engaged and excited. She mentioned that CAJE and the Miami/Yerucham Partnership are working to expand this program to all Federation-supported Jewish day schools in Miami-Dade County.

Asaf Shalev, deputy manager of Yerucham Science Center, was impressed with the local students' level of understanding.

"They reached a really high level of building the robots and understanding the way to create the code, so I was quite happy and impressed with the work that was done."

Eli Fischbach, third grade student at Scheck Hillel, said about the program and festival, "I learned how to code at school and loved practicing for the festival with all my friends and with the team from Yerucham who helped with the program."

Samantha Cedrati, a fourth grade student at Scheck Hillel who was one of five students from her grade who volunteered her time to come after school to learn this and help out, said about the festival, "It was really fun, and I think working as a team is better than working on your own because if you make a mistake, your team can help you figure it out and maybe help you build something even better than what you would build on your own."

Scheck Hillel educators Nancy Penchev, I Lab instructor, and Nilam Patel, lower school science teacher, thought the students were able to gain the value of teamwork through this program and festival.

"They were working together and helping one another," Patel said.

Penchev said, "One of the things I try to instill in our students is that failure is just temporary."

"We're learning from our failures and they demonstrated that tremendously. I told them over and over how proud I was of them because nobody gave up."

Craig Carpentieri, the school's chief academic officer, said that the program is "an opportunity for our children to really explore their passions."

Several third grade students from Hebrew Academy expressed their festival excitement.

"We thought we were a very good team and while we were there we were so welcomed," said Hebrew Academy third grade student Caleb Gdanski.

Genie Bensimon, Hebrew Academy's third grade general studies teacher, said, "The students were very dedicated and worked very well."

Rabbi Avi Bossewitch, the school's dean of academic affairs, noted that through the program, he's seen a "surge of energy, momentum and excitement" at the Hebrew Academy.

Fourth grade students from Lehrman were also interviewed about their festival experiences, but the school asked that their last names not be disclosed.

Ethan said, "It was fun and exciting to work in a team."

Liza said, "I like having team members because whenever I needed help, some people helped me."

Julian said, "My favorite part was when you're on a table, and you have a little amount of time, you may get all stressed out, but at the end, you do it well."

Leah said, "It's so exciting because you don't know what the judges are going to think of what you programmed and everything, so you try to do your best."

Ilana Traub, Lehrman's media and technology specialist, said regarding the festival, "I think it was a great culmination for what they have learned throughout the year."

Jodi Bruce, head of school, noted that one of the nice qualities of the program is that Yerucham "brought all of their expertise, trained their teachers for a week and even gave more of their time as they came down."

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Teamwork demonstrated at robotics festival - Sun Sentinel

Layer by metal layer, a complex component began to take shape with the help of an additive manufacturing machine known as a 3-D printer to most people and a clutch of USC engineering students at the regions newest center devoted to building better stuff and creating jobs.

The part was being made for a Southern California company that was trying out an improved design but didnt have the machinery to produce something involving complicated shapes and angles.

We looked at the geometry and said we should be able to, and we printed it for them, said Satyandra K. Gupta, a USC professor and director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing.

The collaboration with the company, which had asked Gupta for complete secrecy to avoid tipping off competitors, was one of the first for the Center for Advanced Manufacturing.

The facility opened in February as part of a $253-million Defense Department-sponsored consortium of dozens of corporations, schools, nonprofits and local governments around the country.

The Defense Department initiative aims to revitalize U.S. manufacturing by making robotics, 3-D printers and other advanced devices plus a workforce trained to operate them available to small and mid-sized businesses that have been slow to embrace such innovation. The idea is to bolster research, spur business investment, create jobs and boost worker productivity.

The initiative, in turn, is part of Manufacturing USA, the federal governments 5-year-old effort to build a national manufacturing research infrastructure that will develop new products and markets and help reduce the shortage of technically trained manufacturing workers.

U.S. manufacturers have added 800,000 jobs since the recession ended in 2009, reaching 12.3 million jobs in March. But that still lags behind the 13.7 million manufacturing jobs in December 2007, as the recession was starting.

At the USC center, aerospace and biomedical industries will be getting particular attention to help support the fast-growing technological ecosystem in Silicon Beach, said Yannis C. Yortsos, dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, which houses the manufacturing facility.

The center has access to USC faculty with expertise beyond advanced manufacturing technology to include augmented and virtual reality, machine learning and the continuing evolution of Internet-connected devices. Gupta speaks of a golden age of data and technology-enhanced manufacturing in which the U.S. doesnt have a disadvantage because labor costs are lower in many foreign countries.

We just dont do things here because they are interesting, Gupta said. There should be a practical application. Is this something a business can use? If the answer is yes, that makes it worth doing.

The center has been funded by the Defense Department, the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technologies. USC is contributing faculty, equipment and space, and Jabil Circuit Inc. donated five robots. Companies will be charged for their projects.

On most days, the center is a busy place. In one part of the 6,000-square-foot center, 3-D printers are making parts from metal powder and other materials. Students are trained in the printers programming, operation and maintenance.

Industrial robots dominate another section of the lab. One is being taught to polish all the nooks and crannies of a geometrically complex part.

Were basically building a smart assistant, said Brual Shah, a 27-year-old native of Mumbai, India, who is a post doctoral research associate.

Northrop Grumman Corp. is among the companies involved with the Defense Department initiative and the USC center.

The reason: We want to be able to share lessons learned, best practices, said Frank Flores, vice president of engineering product development at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, which is based in Redondo Beach. We want to learn from each other.

At the other end of the size spectrum is Morf3D, a 2-year-old El Segundo start-up that built an engine mount for the SpaceIL project, one of the five finalist entries in the Google Lunar X-Prize competition, which will award $20 million to the first team landing a privately funded rover on the moon.

During a recent visit to the manufacturing center, Morf3D Chief Technology Officer Melissa Orme said she and Chief Executive Ivan J. Madera want to develop lighter and stronger metal alloys with USCs help. Theyre also looking for future employees.

We see the usefulness in the students, having a workforce thats trained in additive manufacturing, Orme said. So that will be a really nice pipeline for us.

Among those students are Jordi Sim and Cady Gooding, who were at the USC center working on a drone called Robo Raven, which flaps its mylar-and-carbon-fiber wings as a bird would. The drone is meant to help farmers reduce crop losses.

Pest birds are the problem, said Sim, an aerospace and computer engineering student. They tried scarecrows. Nothing was as good as a falconer with his bird, but that cost a couple of hundred dollars a day.

Gooding figures the project, which has a wing span of 3 feet, is not only practical, its helping with her goal of working in commercial aerospace.

Ive been working a lot on the wing fabrication, she said. Its hands-on experience actually building it and seeing how different factors affect how well it flies.

Peter Zierhut, vice president of the Haas Technical Education Center for Haas Automation Inc. in Oxnard, said that the development of another university-led center on manufacturing is good to see, especially in California where manufacturing I don't think has gotten its due attention.

Hass Automation bills itself as the largest machine tool builder in the Western world, and a look at its outdoor lot, which is larger than a football field, shows products bound for locations all over the globe.

Zierhut hopes that the USC manufacturing center will help dispel the old image of manufacturing as a dirty, environmentally unfriendly business and will help prepare the next generation of modern manufacturing workers.

I think a lot of people still have visions of the factories maybe their grandparents might have worked at with the smokestacks, and the dirty smoky air, and the dirty floors, and the noisy factory. Its not like that anymore, Zierhut said.

Weve made some headway in changing that image, he said. Hopefully USC can help us continue working on that.

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Here's where small companies can access robotics, 3-D printers and a sharp workforce - Los Angeles Times

ANN ARBOR, MI North American robotics companies posted the strongest ever first-quarter results, according to the Robotic Industries Association, the industrys trade group. Both robot orders and shipments achieved record levels.

An all-time high total of 9,773 robots valued at approximately $516 million were ordered from North American robotics companies during the first quarter of 2017. This represents growth of 32 percent in units over the same period in 2016, which held the previous record. Order revenue grew 28 percent over the first quarter of last year. Robot shipments also reached new heights, with 8,824 robots valued at $494 million shipped to North American customers in the opening quarter of the year. This represents growth of 24 percent in units and five percent in dollars over the same period in 2016.

The automation industry continues to grow robustly as companies invest to increase productivity and boost competitiveness while also providing opportunities for workers, said Jeff Burnstein, president of RIA. We are excited to hear about the new jobs being created and how companies such as Amazon, GM, and others are training and retraining their workforce to enable them to embrace these higher skilled jobs.

Growth in Automotive Soars

Growth in automotive related industries soared in the first quarter of 2017. Robots ordered by automotive component suppliers were up 53 percent while orders by automotive OEMs increased 32 percent. Another good sign for the future of robotics was the continued growth in non-automotive industries like metals (54 percent), semiconductors/electronics (22 percent), and food and consumer goods (15 percent).

The biggest increases were in arc welding (102 percent), coating and dispensing (64 percent), and spot welding (36 percent) applications. RIA estimates that 250,000 robots are now in use in the United States, the third highest in the world behind Japan and China.

Market Growth Reflected in Automate Attendance

RIA and its parent group, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), see the impact of the growth in demand for robotics and related automation at industry events such as Automate 2017, recently held in Chicago. This years show featured more than 400 exhibitors displaying their latest technologies and services, including global suppliers of robotics, motion control, motors, vision systems, metrology, software and system integration services for enterprises large and small. Over 20,000 people attended Automate 2017, including over 1,000 participants in the 120+ Automate conference sessions held at the event.

All of our statistics increased significantly from the last Automate show in 2015, added Burnstein. Total number of show attendees jumped 37 percent and conference participation grew by over 90 percent compared to 2015. This growth demonstrates that there is an increasing need for an event like Automate that provides practical, real-world solutions for companies currently automating or considering automation.

Collaborative Robots andAdvanced Vision Conference Set

RIA and its sister group, AIA Advancing Vision + Imaging, are teaming up to bring more content on leading-edge robot and machine vision trends in 2017. The Collaborative Robots & Advanced Vision Conference will take place November 15-16 in San Jose, CA, and will feature presentations from market leaders in robotics, vision, and imaging. For more information, visit http://www.robotics.organd http://www.visiononline.org.

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North American Robotics Market Surges 32 Percent - Quality Magazine

Loz Blain April 30, 2017

The worlds first giant robot fight is set to take place in August, between USA's MegaBots and Japans Kuratas. But a third country is set to get in on the action too - China has debuted a prototype of a quadripedal, single-seat fighting robot called the Monkey King, and entered a formal challenge.

David Szondy April 26, 2017

Tecnalia has come up with a 3D-printing robot that pays attention to what it's doing. Called Cogiro, it is billed as the first cable-driven robot that can print large structural parts or even small buildings on site while monitoring if the work is drying properly.

Ben Coxworth April 26, 2017

Programming most robots to grasp and retrieve an object can be a rather complex process. That's why scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new system that simply requires users to click twice with a computer mouse.

David Szondy April 20, 2017

Lockheed Martin has created a simplified version of its Fortis industrial exoskeleton by turning its key weight-bearing component into a separate product called the Fortis Tool Arm. It's designed to allow workers to use heavy tools for extended periods without fatigue.

David Szondy April 19, 2017

Doctoral candidate Geert Folkertsma has spent four years developing a scale robotic cheetah that is not only capable of replicating many of the real animal's movements, but in doing so uses only 15 percent more energy than the real thing.

Ben Coxworth April 17, 2017

When you've got a crop full of plants growing in a field, inspecting each and every one of them can be very monotonous work. With that in mind, scientists from Georgia Tech have created a plant-inspecting robot that swings over the plants like a monkey. It's called Tarzan.

David Szondy April 6, 2017

Chowbotics has unveiled Sally the Salad Robot, which uses up to 21 seasonal ingredients to produce individual, bespoke green salads on demand in thousands of combinations in under a minute.

Ben Coxworth March 31, 2017

Scientists have developed a method of getting soft robotic objects to move using directed magnetic fields. They say that it could be used for applications ranging from remotely-triggered drug-delivery pumps within the body, to the development of remotely deployable structures.

Paul Ridden March 31, 2017

After a quick introduction yesterday, we take a closer look at Festo's OctopusGripper, a versatile gripper for the production line of tomorrow. The Future Concepts robot has been designed to safely pick up, securely hold and gently put down objects in the workplace.

Paul Ridden March 30, 2017

The Bionic Learning Network arm of German automation company Festo has revealed three bio-inspired robots ahead of the Hannover Messe trade fair in April, a tentacle-packing pick and pack gripper and two lightweight robots designed for fluid movement.

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Robotics - News, Reviews, Features - New Atlas

Staff report Published 10:15 a.m. ET May 3, 2017 | Updated 10:16 a.m. ET May 3, 2017

Students at the 2016 RAMTEC Vex Robotics Summer Camp watch as a fellow camper completes a challenge in which a robot is guided to pick up a yellow star and drag it to a marked spot, then return to its staring position. Students at the RAMTEC Vex Robotics Summer Camp watch as a fellow camper completes a challenge in which a robot is controlled to pick up a yellow star and drag it to a marked spot, then return to its staring position. One hundred and thirty-five middle and high school students attended the camp this week.(Photo: File photo /The Marion Star)Buy Photo

Robotics teams from Marion County schools have earned success this spring, and two robotics camps atTri-Rivers Career Center are available to keep that trend going.

The 2017 Summer VEX Robotics Camps an Advanced one for high schoolers and a Basics one for students in grades 6-12 will beJune 5-7. Both camps will be held at Tri-Rivers RAMTEC on the Career Center Campus, 2222 Marion-Mt. Gilead Road.

TheGrant Middle Schoolrobotics squad recorded a win in the semifinals of this year'sVEX Worldscompetition in April.

The camps, which were established in 2012, have grown each year. Last year more than 135 middle- and high-school students from Harding, Grant, North Union, Tri-Rivers, Elgin, Ridgedale, Pleasant, River Valley, Highland, Cardington, Gilead Christian, plus a number of home-schooled students, participated, said Ritch Ramey, engineering coordinator for Tri-Rivers RAMTEC. "It is a great time for our next generation of STEM professionals."

The campers will experience robot designing, building and programming using the VEX Robotics System a family of hardware and software designed to teach engineering principles. It is popular with educators for its simple, entry-level designs which can be enhanced into sophisticated robotics systems as students advance, Ramey said. "The company sponsors regional, national and international game-based engineering competitions for student teams in 32 countries."

The camp is designed to be fun and challenging, according to Ramey, who wants kids exposed to the idea of manufacturing as a career while theyre youngsters.

This year's camps are sponsored by grants from industrial manufacturing companies looking for future high skill workers, including Honda, Yaskawa Robotics, Consolidated Electric and SME EF Prime. The Ohio Department of Education alsosupports the program through its Ohio Straight A Grants, which supportproject-based learning in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

The Advanced VEX Summer Camp (Grades 8-12), will include: Safety, Terminology, Tools & Software, Reviewing Robot Construction, Programming; Building & Competing in Robot Challenge; Reviewing Gearing, Torgue, Engineering Notebook & Programming; Reviewing Sensors, Pneumatics, Competing is Robot Skills Contest, and more.

Lunch and a T-shirt are provided to participants at both camps.

The Basics VEX Summer Camp (Grades 6-12), will include: students planning their designs and redesigns for their 2018 VEX Robots and working on Engineering Notebooks.

For more information call Ritch Ramey 740-360-8156. Visit ramtecohio.com to register for camplook under VEX.

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Rolling with it: Robotics workshops coming up - Marion Star

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Motion Controls Robotics, Inc. Posted 05/04/2017

Fremont, OH - Motion Controls Robotics, a leading provider of fully integrated material handling robotic systems, is excited to announce the return of Earl Raynal Jr. He is joining the sales team as a Sales Development Manager responsible for new customer acquisitions in North America. Raynal will also hold the role of regional sales manager (RSM) for Michigan and Ontario territories, and he will take over all accounts in those regions as of Monday, May 1, 2017.

Raynal has extensive Sales, Project Management and Engineering experience in the material handling industry, including business development experience in integration of robot systems, automatic guided vehicle systems and other automated material handling systems.

Motion Controls Robotics is glad to have Earl Raynal Jr back with the company.

"Earl's previous customers have appreciated various deliveries of successful robotic systems, and we know he will continue to develop and deliver innovative robotic systems to our growing customer base," commented James Skelding, Director of Sales and Marketing, about Raynals return to the company.

Raynal graduated from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a B.S. degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering, he has held various roles within the AGV Product Section of MHIA (Material Handling Industry of America).

About Motion Controls Robotics Founded in 1995 and celebrating over 20 years of continuous growth, Motion Controls Robotics is a leading provider of automation solutions to manufacturing industries. The company provides full service robotic solutions from concept to installation and service/support that keep manufacturers competitive. Motion Controls Robotics creates solutions for Fortune 500 and small to medium-sized companies in the food & beverage, plastics, building & construction materials, converting, manufacturing and board & sheet goods industries. They also automate small production shops and machine job shops. Motion Controls Robotics provides automation solutions to manufacturers for a variety of applications including material handling (case packing, palletizing and machine tending), and vision-guided systems. Motion Controls Robotics is an exclusive Level 4 Certified Servicing Integrator for FANUC Robotics, and a SmartCart Automatic Guided Cart Value Added Reseller (VAR) for Daifuku Webb.

Motion Controls Robotics northwest Ohio headquarters is located at 1500 Walter Avenue, Fremont, Ohio.

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Raynal Returns as Motion Controls Robotics's Sales Development Manager - Robotics Online (press release)

Robotic Industries Association Posted 05/04/2017

Strongest First Quarter On Record with $516 Million in Orders

North American robotics companies posted the strongest ever first-quarter results, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industrys trade group. Both robot orders and shipments achieved record levels.

An all-time high total of 9,773 robots valued at approximately $516 million were ordered from North American robotics companies during the first quarter of 2017. This represents growth of 32 percent in units over the same period in 2016, which held the previous record. Order revenue grew 28 percent over the first quarter of last year. Robot shipments also reached new heights, with 8,824 robots valued at $494 million shipped to North American customers in the opening quarter of the year. This represents growth of 24 percent in units and five percent in dollars over the same period in 2016.

The automation industry continues to grow robustly as companies invest to increase productivity and boost competitiveness while also providing opportunities for workers, said Jeff Burnstein, President of RIA. We are excited to hear about the new jobs being created and how companies such as Amazon, GM, and others are training and retraining their workforce to enable them to embrace these higher skilled jobs.

Growth in Automotive Soars Growth in automotive related industries soared in the first quarter of 2017. Robots ordered by automotive component suppliers were up 53 percent while orders by automotive OEMs increased 32 percent. Another good sign for the future of robotics was the continued growth in non-automotive industries like metals (54 percent), semiconductors/electronics (22 percent), and food & consumer goods (15 percent). The biggest increases were in arc welding (102 percent), coating & dispensing (64 percent), and spot welding (36 percent) applications. RIA estimates that 250,000 robots are now in use in the United States, the third highest in the world behind Japan and China.

Market Growth Reflected in Automate Attendance RIA and its parent group, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), see the impact of the growth in demand for robotics and related automation at industry events such as Automate 2017, recently held in Chicago from April 3-6, 2017. This years show featured more than 400 exhibitors displaying their latest technologies and services, including global suppliers of robotics, motion control, motors, vision systems, metrology, software and system integration services for enterprises large and small. Over 20,000 people attended Automate 2017, including over 1,000 participants in the 120+ Automate conference sessions held at the event.

All of our statistics increased significantly from the last Automate show in 2015, added Burnstein. Total number of show attendees jumped 37 percent and conference participation grew by over 90 percent compared to 2015. This growth demonstrates that there is an increasing need for an event like Automate that provides practical, real-world solutions for companies currently automating or considering automation.

Collaborative Robots & Advanced Vision Conference Set RIA and its sister group, AIA Advancing Vision + Imaging, are teaming up to bring more content on leading-edge robot and machine vision trends in 2017. The Collaborative Robots & Advanced Vision Conference will take place November 15-16 in San Jose, CA, and will feature presentations from market leaders in robotics, vision, and imaging. More information will be available in the coming weeks on the RIAand AIA websites.

About Robotic Industries Association (RIA) Founded in 1974, RIA is a not-for-profit trade association driving innovation, growth, and safety in manufacturing and service industries through education, promotion, and advancement of robotics, related automation technologies, and companies delivering integrated solutions. RIA represents some 450 robot manufacturers, system integrators, component suppliers, end users, consulting firms, research groups, and educational institutions. The association hosts a number of educational events including the National Robot Safety Conference (October 10-12, 2017 in Pittsburgh), the Collaborative Robots & Advanced Vision Conference (November 15-16, 2017 in San Jose), the A3 Business Forum (January 17-19, 2018 in Orlando) and the biennial Automate Show & Conference (April 8-11, 2019 in Chicago). RIA also provides quarterly robotics statistics and has a content-rich website, Robotics Online. For more details on RIA, visit Robotics Online or call 734-994-6088.

About Association for Advancing Automation (A3) The Association for Advancing Automation is the global advocate for the benefits of automating. A3 promotes automation technologies and ideas that transform the way business is done. A3 is the umbrella group for Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing Vision + Imaging, and Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA). RIA, AIA, and MCMA combined represent over 1,000 automation manufacturers, component suppliers, system integrators, end users, research groups and consulting firms from throughout the world that drive automation forward. For more information, please visit our websites: A3, RIA, AIA, MCMA.

Contact: Bob Doyle Director of Communications (734) 994-6088

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North American Robotics Market Surges 32 Percent in Unit Volume - Robotics Online (press release)