euRathlon 2015

euRathlon 2015 announces Grand Challenge winners

Marta Palau Franco 29 Sep 2015

Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the euRathlon competition is the first outdoor competition where teams of land, sea and air robots must cooperate in a realistic disaster-response scenario. F...

Day Four at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Marta Palau Franco 25 Sep 2015

Weather conditions challenged the teams participating on the second day of euRathlon 2015 two-domain sub-challenges. The morning started with the remaining team that had yet to participate in the la...

Day Three at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Marta Palau Franco 24 Sep 2015

The first day of euRathlon 2015 two-domain sub-challenges started with the land and air (L+A) combined scenario, followed in the afternoon by the sea and land (S+L), where robots had to search for mis...

Day Two at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Marta Palau Franco 23 Sep 2015

Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. On the second day of single-domain trials, t...

Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Marta Palau Franco 21 Sep 2015

Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...

#eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios

Marta Palau Franco 16 Sep 2015

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami and earthquake struck Fukushima Dai-ichi energy plant causing a major disaster. Since then emergency services have deployed robots to inspect the area and collect data. So...

Call for euRathlon 2015 air/land/sea challenge now open

Marta Palau Franco 13 Feb 2015

euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition that invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima ...

euRathlon Competition: A source of real data for robotics research

Marta Palau Franco 23 Jan 2015

euRathlon is an EU-funded project that aims to set the standard for research through robotics competitions. It not only provides opportunities to test advanced emergency response robots in very chall...