Farewell to Victor Scheinman, inventor of the Stanford Arm which became the PUMA arm or Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly. Victor Scheinman was one of the founders of the robotics industry and stayed involved at Stanford and Silicon Valley Robotics events right up till the end. 

Welcome to new Silicon Valley Robotics Global Partners; Harmonic Drive and Blue Ocean Robotics.

Harmonic Drive empowers your robot with high precision motion control products.

Blue Ocean Robotics invests resources and capital into the exponentially growing robotics industry at large through a carefully selected portfolio of robotic projects.

In local news: Jabil is connecting robotics, advanced manufacturing and youth programs to bring back jobs to San Jose and restore US manufacturing. 

Startups should visit Silicon Valley Robotics VC Office Hours at the RoboBusiness Expo on Wednesday Sept 28 and stay for the Bots & Burgers network lunch.

ABB Robotics is hosting an open house on October 5 at their newly opened facility in San Jose. And you can go straight from ABB Robotics to the monthly Silicon Valley Robotics Bots & Buddies meetup sponsored by Toyota Research Institute.

Do you have a robot platform and are looking for developers? Or are you looking for engineers and can showcase cool technologies? Our new series of Developer Workshops are filling up in less than a day. I'm looking for more.

RoboBusiness is coming up!

• SVR's code for 20% off Full Conference passes is RB16SVR
• SVR's code for $25 off the Expo Only pass is RB16SVREX

Want to Meet Pepper at SoftBank Robotics? Our first developer workshop at SoftBank Robotics was a sell out success with 60 developers in attendance and over 90 on the waitlist. We've just announced the second one and it's sold out too. Do you want to host a developer night for your robots? (Request info about DevNights.)

Or perhaps you'd like to host or sponsor a speaker event like the "Robotics Toolkit" Influencer Salon sponsored by Qualcomm. (Request info about InfluencerSalons)

Bots & Beer, our regular social meetup, is also looking for venues in SF and SV. Thanks to our current B&B sponsors Root.VC (looking for machine and AI startups) and Toyota Research Institute (Toyota Research Institute is hiring). (Request info about B&B sponsor/venue)

Finally, should this SVR email also be going to someone else at your company? Forward it! They can join SVR here or just sign up for the newsletter there too.

And more on the calendar for 2016!

• VC OFFICE HOURS & PITCHFIRE - RoboBusiness - San Jose Sep 28
• 20% discount on RoboBusiness for SVR members
• Next Developer Workshop Oct 4 (sold out)
• ABB Robotics Open House Oct 5
• Bots&Buddies - Hacker Dojo SV - Oct 5
• Highway1 Open House Oct 7
• Women in Robotics - Oct 10-11
• Bots&Beer - Robot Garden East Bay - Oct 12
• Bots&Beer - tbc

• Free tickets to robotics network or speaker events (like Space Robotics)
• Discounts to SVR or partner events (like Xconomy & RoboBusiness)
• Invitations to special events like Robot Block Party 'afterhours'