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From: michael@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Michael Kassler)
Subject: "Robots for Competitive Industries" conference, Brisbane, Australia
Message-ID: <michael.738045590@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Summary: Major international conference on robotics, 14-16 July
Keywords: Brisbane, Australia, conference, ARA, IFR
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Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 04:39:50 GMT
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The Australian Robot Association and International Federation of Robotics are
sponsoring a major international conference on "Robots for Competitive
Industries" in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, from 14 to 16 July. Emphasis
in the conference is given to non-classical applications of robots (e.g.,
applications in health care, agriculture, construction, outdoors).

Keynote speakers are:
Joseph Engelberger - Robots for the Service Sector
Roderick Draughon - Robotic Water-Jet Cutting
Patrick Finlay - Robotic Systems for Health and Retirement Care
Georges Giralt - Outdoor Mobile Robots
Rolf Schraft - New Robot Applications in Manufacturing
Francis Sevila - Robotic Fruit Harvesting
James Trevelyan - Robotic Sheep Shearing
Takatoshi Ueno - Robotics for the Construction Industry

Regular sessions of the conference are devoted to a variety of topics
including surgery, novel sensors (tactile, smell, etc. and new applications
of vision), novel mechanisms, welding and polishing, etc.

For a copy of the Registration Booklet (registration fee $A 500) please
e-mail your POSTAL address to me and I shall supply same by air.

Brisbane is not far from the Great Barrier Reef. The world congress of IFAC
(International Federation of Automatic Control) takes place in Sydney the
following week.

We hope to welcome many roboticists from many countries to this
international conference (speakers are coming from USA, UK, France, Germany,
India, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and elsewhere).

Michael Kassler
National Co-ordinator
Australian Robot Association


