OMG Sponsoring RoboNexus Robotics Conference; OMG Robotics SIG to Hold Special Meeting; Dr. Richard Soley and Dr. Jon Siegel of OMG to present on software standards at conference

Business Wire, August 26, 2005

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), today announced that OMG is sponsoring the RoboNexus Conference and Exhibition this October in San Jose, California and that the OMG Robotics Special Interest Group, which develops software standards for the robotics industry, will hold a special information Birds of a Feather meeting during the conference.

The OMG Robotics Special Interest Group (SIG) will be holding a Robotics Standards Birds of a Feather meeting on Thursday, October 6, 2005 at the conference. The Robotics SIG, which recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) to the public as it ramps up its standards work, will be giving an overview on their standards work and the RFI at the meeting, as well as insight into the Request for Proposal (RFP) work underway to develop personal robotics and automation platform standardization. All registered conference attendees are invited to attend this special meeting and learn more about the OMG Robotics SIG and the work it will be doing in robotics standards. For the RFI, visit http://www.omg.org/robotics_rfi. For more information on the OMG Robotics Special Interest Group, visit http://robotics.omg.org/. For meeting registration information, go to http://www.robonexus.com/registration.htm.> During the conference, billed as "The Business Development, Educational and Consumer Event for Personal, Service and Mobile Robotics," Dr. Richard Soley, OMG's Chairman and CEO, will give a presentation entitled "Standards are Boring." Additionally, Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG's Vice President of Technology Transfer will give the presentation, "Software Standards in Robotics."

"The robotics industry is booming and making huge strides in software; nevertheless, widespread adoption of personal robotics systems will await the arrival of broadly adopted application portability and interoperability standards for service robots. The OMG Robotics Special Interest Group is leading the way in standards efforts, which will create an open marketplace for interoperable applications that can run on any robotics platform," said Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO of OMG. "RoboNexus, as the premier robotics event, is an ideal event for us to sponsor and participate in."

"Robotics Trends is delighted to be working with the Object Management Group on the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition," notes Dan Kara, President of Robotics Trends. "The personal, service and mobile robotics industry, which has both business-to-business and consumer components to it, is poised for rapid and dramatic growth. However, for this new industry to realize its potential, standards must be in place. The Object Management Group, a well-respected, international standards body, is leading the standards efforts in this exciting new field. We welcome their contribution."

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