euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Three recap

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...

27 September 2013, by Marta Palau Franco

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Two recap

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...

25 September 2013, by Marta Palau Franco

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day One recap

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...

24 September 2013, by Marta Palau Franco

14 teams qualify for euRathlon land competition

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...

17 September 2013, by Marta Palau Franco

Photo essay: VEX’s Paul McKnight hosts robotics competition @ Campus Party EU

At a robotics workshop Friday September 6th at Campus Party EU in London, VEX Robotic's Paul McKnight elaborated how robotics platforms and toolkits could be used in schools and universities to enhanc...

10 September 2013, by Jana Witt

RoCKIn Robot Challenge looks at task scenarios to help shape future competitions

RoCKIn is a three-year EU project that aims to use robot competitions in order to innovate smarter, more dependable robots, and to increase public awareness of robotics. Part of its focus is to look...

07 September 2013, by RoCKIn Robotics Challenge

euRathlon and the DARPA Robot Challenge: A difference of approach

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...

22 July 2013, by Alan Winfield

Research Days: Multi-UAV systems

Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...

17 July 2013, by Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz

Campus Party Europe comes to the O2 in London September 2-7

Up to 10,000 young geeks from across Europe will camp out in tents and sleeping bags for five days of intense 24/7 hacking, networking and elbow-rubbing with experts from some of the world's most infl...

12 July 2013, by Robohub Editors

EU Robotics Week, with Thilo Brodtmann, Asim Ikram and Barbara Klein

Link to audio file (29:02) In today’s episode we cover the EU Robotics Week that took place during the last week of November and featured robotics related activities across Europe for the general p...

08 February 2013, by Podcast team

euRathlon is go!

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...

07 February 2013, by Alan Winfield

European Robotics Week 2012

The 2nd European Robotics Week will be from 26 November to 2 December 2012 and offers one week of various robotics related activities across Europe for the general public, highlighting growing impor...

10 November 2012, by Wolfgang Heller

Robotics labs and companies open up for EU Robotics Week

... Today is the start of the first European Robotics Week: from 28th of November to 4th of December 2011. Check events calendar for an event near you. ... In a novel approach to show their labs effor...

28 November 2011, by Frank Tobe

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