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 .
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.
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.