**FIRST EMAIL**/RoboNexus Conference & Exposition, October 6-9, 2005

[Beth Sweet]

Greetings Teams:

A special deal is available for members of the FIRST community who wish to attend the RoboNexus Conference & Exposition, an international business development, educational, and consumer event for intelligent, mobile robotics, being held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA.

RoboNexus, the largest robotics event in North America, will be held October 6-9, 2005. With this offer, save $5 off the regular exposition rates and $200 off the conference rates, or attend just the Expo on Friday for FREE.

Register and receive a 1 year print subscription to Popular Science magazine! For registration details, see below.

Attend the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition and see:

- Over 50 exhibitors, and hundreds of robots, along with the Japan Robotics Pavilion and Robotics Society of America Pavilion, in the RoboNexus exposition hall. See http://www.robonexus.com/sponsors.htm for a complete listing of exhibitors.

- Sessions in RoboNexus Professional Development Programs delivered by the world's leading robotics, business and educational professionals from across the globe. See http://www.robonexus.com/program-at-a-glance.htm for a complete listing of the speakers.

- Live demonstrations of robotics products including the Sony AIBO Wireless Demo, RoboNexus Demonstration Stage shows and the "build your own" Robotics "Kit College";

- "Family friendly" seminars on robotic design development, history of robotics, educational robotics and much more in the RoboNexus Consumer Expo Sessions;

- Robotic demonstrations and competitions including BotBall, RoboCup and ROBOMagellan;

- Demonstrations by Japan's Vision Nexta, the two time RoboCup autonomous humanoid soccer champ and Chroino, a small humanoid robot with a friendly appearance and sophisticated movements.

- Sessions from leading consumer robotics vendors announcing new products and market direction in the RoboNexus Technology Spotlight Theater;

- Movies, music, raffles, Robby the Robot's Birthday Bash, Servo Magazine's 'Hack-a-Sapien' contest, product give-always and more!

TO REGISTER:

Go to: http://www.robonexus.com/registration.htm

To save $200 off your full conference pass, use priority code RNCD200 when registering.

To save $5 off your expo pass, use priority code RNEXD5 when registering.

Under the Educational Outreach Program, all school age children (K-12)
and their attendants (teachers, etc.) can attend the RoboNexus Exposition on
Friday, October 7th at no cost. Students get 'goodie bags' as well.
There are
also special demonstrations set up for just Friday.

To register, all school groups need to do is supply event organizers with a
contact person and give them the number of students that will be attending.

- Educational Outreach Introduction -
http://www.robonexus.com/EdOutreachIntro.htm.

- Registration Form - http://www.robonexus.com/EdOutreachEnrollment.htm

Go Teams!