RoboBowl Overview-Quality of Life Technology Center - Carnegie Mellon University

RoboBowl:

Next-Generation Robotics Venture Competition

 

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Answers to the most critical challenges facing the U.S. today, related to manufacturing and logistics, healthcare and assisted living, and our national security and infrastructure will come from the creativity, dedication, and passion of entrepreneurs and inventors who utilize next generation robotics technology to innovate breakthrough solutions.

The RoboBowl is a series of next-generation robotics venture competitions intended to find and foster start-up and early-stage companies seeking to develop "big idea" products and services that address unmet and underserved market needs in targeted industrial sectors.  In doing so, the RoboBowl expects to help address the nation's need to create new jobs and viable businesses by catalyzing the adaptation and commercialization of emerging next-generation robotics technologies.

While significant progress has been and continues to be made in the research and development of next-generation robotics technology, commercialization efforts are still relatively nascent.  The RoboBowl competitions will cast a spotlight on new ventures formed in the U.S. to transition next-gen robotics technology into forward-looking, co-worker, co-inhabitant, and co-protector solutions that address critical business problems in several of our most important market sectors, including healthcare and assisted living, manufacturing and logistics, national defense, homeland security, civil infrastructure, energy, transportation, and field industries such as agriculture and mining.  Indirectly, RoboBowl will also serve to advance the development of the commercialization infrastructure needed in the U.S. to further accelerate the pace of innovation as well as inform Government efforts to increase research in the key enabling science and technology areas.

RoboBowl competitions are expected to take place at various locations throughout the nation.  Each will be open to U.S.-based start-up and early-stage businesses from across the country with an idea of how next-gen robotics technology can be used to develop and bring to market a compelling product or service that addresses unmet or underserved market needs in one of the targeted industry sectors; vis-a-vis teams seeking funding for an applied research and development project or for their "really cool" idea.

 

Scheduled RoboBowl Competitions

RoboBowl Pittsburgh

Healthcare and Quality of Life Robotics Ventures
Carnegie Mellon University
October 13, 2011


Other Locations and Dates TBD

Next-generation robotics encompasses and integrates a broad array of actuation, electronic, sensor, software, man-machine interface, and other enabling technologies to produce intelligent, networked devices, platforms, vehicles, and other products that operate with ever-increasing levels of autonomy.  Next-gen robotics products and applications function as intelligent co-workers, co-inhabitants, and co-protectors in dynamic, dangerous, and/or inaccessible environments, reducing the need for tedious human attention, interaction, and intervention.  Next-gen robotics solutions enable individuals to concentrate on the higher-level and more important aspects of their lives and jobs, to multi-task more effectively, and to work at a safe distance when needed.  No other technology has the potential to address such a diverse set of critical needs facing our nation, including reinvigorating the U.S. manufacturing base, reducing healthcare costs, protecting our citizens, inspiring our youth to pursue STEM-related careers, caring for our aging population, and enabling people with disabilities to lead normal and productive lives.