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TRADR co-organized workshop on Disaster Response Robotics at ICRA conference in Singapore

29 May, 2017 Posted by tradr_admin

On the 2nd of June, a workshop on Disaster Response Robots: Design Principles and Control for Effective Mobility and Manipulation was held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Singapore .

Nikos Tsagarakis (Organizer), Department of Advanced Robotics, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova.

The workshop was organized by N. Tsagarakis, P. Ogren, P. Jensfelt, S. Behnke, representing the EU projects Walkman, TRADR, and Centauro. These projects were presented in invited talks.

 

Cesar Cadena, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich.

In addition there were 9 presentations that covered a wide range of topics from different labs and a projects across the world. Lively discussions took place between the presentations.
The attendees got a good overview of the state of the art of Disaster Response Robotics.

Call for Participation: TRADR Summer School on Human-Robot Teaming, 21-25 of Augustus, Utrecht, the Netherlands

9 May, 2017 Posted by tradr_admin

TRADR Summer School on Human-Robot Teaming
21-25 of Augustus, Utrecht, the Netherlands

The TRADR summer school on Human-Robot Teaming will be held from 21-25 August 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The event consists of a five-day course to provide participants with a full overview and hands-on experience related to Human-Robot Teaming. For more information have a look on the website.