Dr. Roland Menassa, presenting “Robonaut2 and Next-Generation Industrial Robots” on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at the RoboBusiness Leadership Summit in Boston, is a research technical fellow in the Manufacturing Systems Research Lab at General Motors. A 22-year GM veteran, he now leads the development of Robonaut in collaboration with NASA, while also managing global research groups developing advanced robotics and flexible tooling concepts for vehicle assembly.
Dr. Menassa spoke with Robotics Trends writer Ellen Muraskin about robots and humans in industrial settings, as a preview to his presentation at the RoboBusiness summit.
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