euRathlon 2013

Winners of the euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition announced!

Marta Palau Franco 30 Sep 2013

Robot TeodorPrime of team FKIE opening the suitcase that contains explosive material. Photo credits: euRathlon. euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition where teams test the intelligence and aut...

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Four recap

Marta Palau Franco 29 Sep 2013

The autonomous robot MuCAR-3 from team MuCAR (University of the Bundeswehr Munich) arrives. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley. Clouds, mist and rain accompanied the fourth day of euRathlon 2013 civilian ...

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Three recap

Marta Palau Franco 27 Sep 2013

UAV pilot demostration carried out by CATEC during the euRathlon 2013 workshop. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley. The sun was shining again on the third day of euRathlon 2013 outdoor robotics competitio...

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Two recap

Marta Palau Franco 25 Sep 2013

Fraunhofer FKIE team's robot gets ready to enter the USAR scenario. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley. The second day of euRathlon competition started with the opening session of the euRathlon 2013 wor...

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day One recap

Marta Palau Franco 24 Sep 2013

Robot Telemax of Telerob team, moving the canister full of hazardous material from the loading platform. Photo credit: Aaron Boardley. euRathlon is a new civilian outdoor robotics competition focused...

14 teams qualify for euRathlon land competition

Marta Palau Franco 17 Sep 2013

Teams participating in ELROB land robotics competition tune up their robots. Photo credits: ELROB Buildings that are collapsed or on fire, tunnels flooded with smoke or water, unstructured areas subj...

euRathlon and the DARPA Robot Challenge: A difference of approach

Alan Winfield 22 Jul 2013

A week ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge unveiled the ATLAS humanoid robot, which will be used by seven competing teams. Developed by Boston Dynamics, ATLAS is an imposing 1.8m 150Kg bipedal humano...

euRathlon is go!

Alan Winfield 07 Feb 2013

I'm very excited to be leading a new project called euRathlon - which is short for European Robotics Athlon. Up until now the project has been under wraps, but now - finally - we can go public. I'll e...