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•grga• a leading industry robotics cluster is one of the largest Robotics innovation and the Massachusetts

in the world with more than eighty companies having a combined billion dollars in revenue and ten universities teaching and developing robotics; and

• growth job potential exists the Commonwealth's robotics industry, where the Enormous and for average annual growth rate of the local company is forty-seven percent and ninety percent of the firms plan to hire in the next two years; and

glrga• Massachusetts is leader the robotics a across field, including semiconductor manufacturing, defense, therapeutic use, home use, distribution/logistics and inventory management, underwater use, educational use, and behavior-based robots; and

•grga• On this day, through a series of meetings and event.s, the Commonwealth's robotics duster and Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council showcase our entrepreneurial strengths, spark our collaborative gene, and catalyze new intellectual capital to th.e Commonwealth,

•;bgr•fare, •, •et•aI •. •atrid•, Govemor oftheCommonwealthofMassachusetts, do ereby proclaim April 13 th, •olo, to be,

ROBOTICS INNOVATION DAY And urge all the citizens of the Commonwealth to take cognizance of this event and participate fittingly in its observance.

Given at the Executive Chamber in Boston, this fifth day of April, in the year two thousand and ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the two hundred and thirty-third.

By His Excellency

DEVAL L. PATRICK GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH

WILLIAM FRANCIS GALVIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH