WebCast: RoboEarth - Building a World-Wide-Web for Robots

As part of the European Robotics Week from November 28th - December 4th, 2011, RoboEarth organized a webcast as well as a series of interactive workshops to introduce RoboEarth and allow researchers around the world to create and detect their first 3D object models using RoboEarth.

Overall, more than 100 people followed the events. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Registration
Please register by sending an email with the subject WebCast Registration to info@roboearth.org .
Deadline (extended): November 25th, 2011.

Date
Friday, December 2nd, 2011, 15.00-18.00 (CET)
(London: 14.00-17.00; Boston: 9.00-12.00)

Location
The event will be streamed live via this website.

Program

• 15.00-15.30 (CET) Keynote: RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots (Dr. Oliver Zweigle)
• 15.30-18.00 (CET) Interactive workshops

Workshop prerequisites

• Working ROS with RoboEarth stack installed
• Marker template (object creation)
• Kinect sensor (object creation and detection) or calibrated RGB webcam (object
  detection only)
• Optional: If you would like two-way voice communication or two-way
  video, you will need either a working Google Plus account to join via
  Google Hangout, or a working Skype installation (at least Skype version
  5) to join via Skype Video chat. The software used to stream the webcast
  only allows to post written comments in a joint chat window.