2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRACTICAL ROBOT APPLICATIONS
NOVEMBER 9-10, 2009
Call for Participation
The 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA) will be held in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA from November 9-10, 2009. TePRA is aimed at catalyzing the development of enabling technologies and encouraging their adoption by robot designers. Sponsorship, exhibit and demonstration opportunities are available. Please see the conference website for further details.

Technical Program Highlights
2009 TePRA will feature 8 technical sessions with 46 presentations, a student competition, ro-bot demonstrations and keynote speakers.
Robot Applications Track: Robot Technologies Track:
• Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics • Computation
• Military and Security Robotics • Power and Communication
• Actuation and Manipulation • Navigation
• Consumer Robotics • Sensing
Plenary Talks By:
• Kevin Blankespoor, Chief Engineer for the BigDog Program, Boston Dynamics
• Steve Roux, Senior Group Leader, Reticle Positioning, ASML, Inc,
• Charles Remsberg, CEO, Hocoma, Inc.
The program will also feature a panel discussion chaired by Helen Greiner, CEO, The Droid Works, Inc. Please see the conference website for further details and registration information.

Mikell Taylor, a 2008 attendee said “This is one of the more interesting robotics conferences I've ever been to. With the breadth of specialties in the robotics industry -- medical, consumer, military, and so on -- it's hard to cover all of them in just two short days, but TePRA made a solid go at it last year. This is a great small, intimate conference with some stellar speakers from industry."
www.ieeerobot-tepra.org
Important Dates
Early Registration Deadline: October 1, 2009
Conference Dates: November 9-10, 2009