Needham, MA, USA – September 1, 2005 – The Object Management Group (OMG), the international software consortium responsible for establishing distributed computing specifications for traditional IT systems, as well as real-time and embedded systems, today announced that it is sponsoring the RoboNexus Conference and Exhibition. 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 conference and exposition will be held at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA on October 6-9, 2005.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 www.omg.org/robotics_rfi .
For more information on the OMG Robotics Special Interest Group, visit robotics.omg.org/ .
For meeting registration information, go to www.robonexus.com/registration.htm .During the conference, billed as "The International 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 at the OMG will deliver 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 North America's 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."
About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA®, include the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM™). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium.
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About Robotics Trends
Robotics Trends is the world's first integrated media firm serving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics marketplace. Robotics Trends serves their clientele through three major business divisions:
- Publishing, which produces www.roboticstrends.com, which produces over 450,000 page views monthly;
- Events, which produces RoboBusiness and the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition; and
- Analyst Services, which serves the strategic consulting needs of robotics manufacturers, investors, business development groups and others .
