2014 Schedule
Interactive: March 7–11  •  Film: March 7–15  •  Music: March 11–16

Consumer Robots Everywhere: The Next Big Thing

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There are so many talented roboticists in the world, but so few of them are conveying their breakthrough robotic technologies where they can really make a difference; out of the research labs and into our homes! What is holding up the robots? Why don’t we have Rosie Jetson in our homes and workplaces? Cost.
Amazing humanoid and research robotics can be expensive but robots that serve a real purpose in everyday life do not have to be overly complicated. A truly useful robot is affordable, easy to use, serviceable, and above all, accessible. Only then will the future of robotics begin to be clear, but it is closer than we think!
Dmitry Grishin, the founder of the first-ever robotics-focused VC fund, and Bilal Zuberi, a partner at Lux Capital, a bi-coastal early stage VC firm, will explore why affordable personal robotics is the next big thing in innovation, offer their take on the growing robotic marketplace, and explore the problems with the current robotics industry.

Presenters

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Dmitry Grishin

Founder

Grishin Robotics

MIT Technology Review's Innovator under 35.
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Board at the Mail.Ru Group* company, which Dmitry took public on the London Stock Exchange in 2010. Born in 1978, Dmitry Grishin is considered as one of the most successful young ntrepreneurs in Russia. Graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Robotics and Complex utomation at Moscow State Technical University. Head of the department of Information Technologies and Programming at St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics. Founder of the Russian Code Cup – the largest competition for programmers in Eastern Europe.

*Mail.Ru Group's sites reach approximately 86% of the Russian-speaking Internet users on a monthly basis, and the Company is one of the five largest Internet sites, based on the number of total pages viewed (comScore, March 2013).

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