Strategy Analytics' Mobile Robots Research Featured In UNECE 2004 World Robotics Report



STRATEGY ANALYTICS FEATURED IN UNITED NATIONS' "A ROBOT IN EVERY HOME?" CONFERENCE IN GENEVA

Boston, MA -/19 Oct, 2004 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-Strategy Analytics' analysis on the commercial readiness of mobile robots is featured as Chapter 8 in the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) 2004 World Robotics report. Published by Neena Buck, Vice President of the Strategy Analytics Emerging Frontiers program, this recent research on the market for mobile robots, entitled, "Mobile Service Robots: Entering the Commercial World," will be announced during the UN conference, "A Robot in Every Home," scheduled for October 20, 2004, at the Palais du Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

The United Nation's Economic Commission publishes its report on the world market for robotics annually. Until now, this report had covered traditional static manufacturing-based robots, which performed repetitive tasks. However this year, in recognition of the newer, emerging market for mobile service robots, the UN has chosen to include this category of robotic systems in its report, and has invited Strategy Analytics to be the sole analyst firm to contribute to covering this exciting category. "We are very pleased to have been selected as the expert analysts and to offer our perspectives on the field of mobile robots," said Ms. Buck.

Strategy Analytics' analysis, entitled, "Mobile Service Robots: Entering the Commercial World," provides a cogent perspective on the emerging market opportunities for mobile robots that operate in uncertain and dynamically changing environments. Authored by Ms. Buck, this analysis details specific categories of mobile robots coming out of research labs; examines the embryonic state of the market today; and identifies some of the major barriers that must be overcome in order to achieve mass commercialization. A road map for the development of mobile robotic capabilities and future application opportunities is provided.

The UN conference on robotics is one of two prominent events focused this week around this emerging field. Combined with Robotics Trends' Robonexus conference in Santa Clara, California, which will be starting just one day after the Geneva event, this week of intense focus on robots is being called "Robotics Week." According to Ms. Buck, "Two major robotics events on two continents demonstrate the growing interest in this emerging technology from enterprises and consumers around the world."

As vice president of the Emerging Frontiers program at Strategy Analytics, Ms. Buck examines the confluence of future-generation intelligent computing and communications systems with the needs of leading-edge businesses and consumers. Prior to joining Strategy Analytics, Ms. Buck served as vice president and research director of emerging technologies at New Science Associates, now a part of Gartner Group. She was Director of Marketing at DRI/McGraw Hill, the economic forecasting arm of Standard and Poor's. Before that she was with IBM where she helped launch a number of technologies and applications associated with intelligent systems, new computing architectures and natural language processing software. Previously, she was the lead design engineer at General Motors for one of Cadillac's earliest microprocessor-based fuel-injection control computers.


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