The video of the RoboEarth final demonstrator is now online. This demonstrator includes four robots collaboratively working together to help patients in a hospital. These robots used RoboEarth in the following ways:
On March 15, 2014 I presented RoboEarth at the TEDxYouth conference at Adliswil, Switzerland. The talk discussed about the three main elements that are required to build an internet for robots (language, storage, and computation) and showcased RoboEarth's contributions towards these elements.
THIS IS A PAST EVENT
After four years of research, we will be showcasing RoboEarth through a demonstrator that includes four robots collaboratively working together to help patients in a hospital. These robots will use RoboEarth as a knowledge base, communication medium, and computational resource to offload some of their heavy computation. Do not miss this great event!
Date and time: January 16, 2014, 14:45~
Location: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (http://goo.gl/maps/PYwxA)
Please register (mandatory) for free at http://goo.gl/pezjRB
For a detailed information on the schedule and the location click here.
Contact:
Barry van der Meer (press)
René van de Molengraft (scientific lead)
Laurens Schrijnemakers (organization)
RoboEarth is co-organizing a Special Issue on Cloud Robotics and Automation in the Journal IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).
Important Dates
For more information, have a look at the Cloud Robotics and Automation Call for Papers on the T-ASE website.
We presented RoboEarth at ROSCon 2013. It was really a great developer conference with a lot of technical details, awesome crowd, cool robots, and loads of fun! Our talk also included a live demo of a Roomba doing real-time 3D mapping on the Cloud. Here is the video of our talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq5tklyRLOI
In the video above, ETH Zurich's Master student Vladyslav Usenko shows how the RoboEarth Cloud Engine (nickname: Rapyuta) enables a basic, low-cost robot like the iRobot CREATE to perform full 3D mapping in real-time.
For details on the setup and how it works, have a look at an in-depth article about robot mapping in the cloud on Robohub.
The RoboEarth team organized a Cloud Robotics Workshop at the eu Robotics Forum, 19-21 March, Lyon, France. The event was very well received.
For more information, have a look at the first part of the workshop, featuring local and remote talks from Moritz Tenorth (TU Bremen), Alper Aydemir (KTH Stockholm), Séverin Lemaignan (LAAS-CNRS), Ibrahim Volkan Isler (University of Minnesota, remote), M. Ani Hsieh (Drexel University, remote), Guoqiang Hu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, remote), Matei Ciocarlie and Kaijen Hsiao (Willow Garage, remote), Shuichi Nishio (ATR Japan, remote), and Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley, remote):
http://youtu.be/dLd3ZGhe1LM
Note: Echo is gone after the first 2min.
You may also want to have a look at the archived Cloud Robotics workshop page.
We gladly announce that the conference paper submission called 'The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments' (Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz) has won the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2012.
The paper covers the design of the semantic RoboEarth language and how it is used to describe and reason about tasks, objects and environments in a way that allows to share knowledge between different robots. Descriptions of tasks include information about required physical attributes and software components, which is being matched against a robot's capabilities entailed in its semantic self-model. This allows to infer whether a robot is capable of performing a certain task and if not, how it might be enabled by downloading additional information from RoboEarth.
The 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems was held in Vienna, Austria, on February 23 - 24, 2012.
The conference aimed at presenting the state-of-the-art in cognitive systems and robotics. It showed European research efforts being made in this field and provided an opportunity for open discussions.
Part of the lively interaction was a talk given by Heico Sandee about the RoboEarth project. It covers how robots can exchange knowledge through RoboEarth and how to determine whether the knowledge might be useful for a specific robot or not.
In order to watch the talk in full length (~18 min.) please follow the link below.
