FORT MYERS, Fla., Sept. 30, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Innova Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:IVHG), an automation technology company providing hardware and software systems-based solutions to the service, personal, and industrial robotic markets, announced today that Walter Weisel, Chairman and CEO of Innova Holdings, Inc., will be a keynote speaker at RoboNexus, October 6-9, 2005, at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA. Mr. Weisel's presentation is titled, "REAL Service Robots... From Factories, Human Services, Military and Space Applications" and will be presented at 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 6.
Mr. Weisel's presentation will feature a video showing current and future mission critical application needs, as well as a historical look at the evolution of precise motion control, tactile sensing, vision, mobility, and the wide range of robotic arms required to complete specific missions in industrial, consumer, homeland security, military, and space applications.
Innova Robotics, Inc. is exhibiting at RoboNexus in booth 401. The Innova Robotics booth will feature an operational robot integrated with a fully flexible mobile platform, both being directed by the company's new 12 axis open PC control. The robotic arm is dressed in military camouflage garb and directs the three legged fully servo driven platform by grasping a joystick to maneuver the vehicle. Programmed in the company's RobotScript(r) programming language, the mobile robotic system can be operated in manual, semi-automatic, or fully automatic mode.
Rob Ambrose, Director of Robotics from the Johnson Space Center is a special guest in the Innova Robotics booth to discuss Innova Holding's Robotic Workspace Technologies, Inc. (RWT) role in NASA R&D for Hubble telescope repair missions for which RWT was recently awarded a contract.
Also in the booth will be three crawler robots maneuvering through small piles of rubble with high-resolution cameras and halogen lights seeking out people and explosives in a simulated search and rescue operation. The crawlers were used in the 9/11 disaster, recently returned from New Orleans where they were used to search for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and have also been in the Florida Keys where they underwent underwater testing by NASA astronauts.