RIA推出Tridute网站，以纪念“机器人父亲”Joseph F. Engelberger

Nominations Now Being Accepted for 2016 Engelberger Robotics Awards

Ann Arbor，MI，2015年11月9日 - 机器人行业协会（RIA）今天宣布推出一个向致敬的网站推出Joseph F. Engelberger，被称为“机器人之父”。最近庆祝他的90岁生日的Engelberger是一名工程师和企业家，他们开创了机器人领域。Engelberger于1956年创立了世界上第一个机器人公司宣传。

“It’s important to remember our history in robotics,” said Jeff Burnstein, President of RIA. “This website provides a timeline of his many accomplishments in the field of robotics that is still revolutionizing modern manufacturing processes today.” The致敬现场is located on the RIA website,www.robotics.org。

RIA also announced that nominations are now being accepted for the world's most prestigious honor in the field of robotics, the Joseph F. Engelberger robotics awards. The awards are presented each year to individuals for excellence in robotics technology development, application, education, and leadership. Since the awards inception in 1977, they have been presented to 116 robotics leaders from 17 different nations. Recent winners of the Engelberger award include Dean Kamen, founder of the FIRST Robotics competition and Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot and current Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics.

The 2016 awards will be presented in the categories of Leadership and Application. Each winner receives a $5,000 honorarium and a commemorative medallion with the inscription "Contributing to the advancement of the science of robotics in the service of mankind." These distinguished awards will be presented in conjunction with the International Symposium on Robotics in Munich, Germany, June 21-24, 2016.提名表格可在RIA网站上获得。申请必须在2016年1月15日之前收到。

About Robotic Industries Association (RIA)
RIA成立于1974年，是一项致力于通过推广和加强机器人和相关自动化来改善北美制造业和服务业的区域，国家和全球竞争力的非营利性贸易协会。RIA代表365个机器人制造商，系统集成商，组件供应商，最终用户，咨询公司，研究小组和教育机构。该协会举办了多项活动，包括国家机器人安全会议，国际协同机器人研讨会（与2016年5月3日至5日在波士顿，MA），2016年（2016年2月3日至5日）在奥兰多，佛罗里达州）和两年一度的自动化展览与会议（2017年4月3日至6日在芝加哥）。RIA还提供了季度机器人统计数据，并拥有丰富的网站，在线机器人。有关RIA的更多详细信息，请访问www.robotics.org或致电734/994-6088。

About Association for Advancing Automation (A3)
The Association for Advancing Automation is the global advocate for the benefits of automating. A3 promotes automation technologies and ideas that transform the way business is done. A3 is the umbrella group for Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing Vision + Imaging, and Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA). RIA, AIA, and MCMA combined represent some 850 automation manufacturers, component suppliers, system integrators, end users, research groups and consulting firms from throughout the world that drive automation forward.

For more information, please visit our websites: A3 -www.a3automate.org.。ria -www.robotics.org。艾娅 -www.visiononline.org.。MCA -www.motioncontrolonline.org.。