Science beyond Fiction in Prague

Well, maybe they won't tell you how to build or where to buy a curvature engine to upgrade your car or a teleporter to get back home, but it should be very interesting....and as regards teleporting.... perhaps we may ask Anton Zeilinger :-)

EU FET is organising "Science beyond Fiction – The European Future Technologies conference (FET09)", which aims at bringing together all FET stakeholders in Prague on 21-23 April 2009.

More information is available through http://ec.europa.eu/fet09

Euron GEM Sig web site is online!

The Euron GEM Sig web site is on line here... It gives a (quite limited :-) ) account of the activities of the Euron GEM Sig

IROS 2007 Workshop on Robot and Intelligent System Performance Evaluation

If you dared or are daring to reach San Diego for IROS 2007, don' t miss the workshop on
'Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking for Intelligent Robots and Systems' organized by Angel P. del Pobil, Raj Madhavan and Elena Messina. (Executive 4 room, November 2).
(By the way the situation in San Diego, at least in the city, looks quite normal, and well under control, although there have been big damages in the area due to fire blazes, as you know)
Among other very interesting presentations you will get an update about the EURON Good Experimental Methodology and Benchmarking Sig, and some preliminary thoughts on the matter, and have an opportunity to discuss these topics.
See you in San Diego.

Heron Robots coordinates Euron GEM SIG

Heron Robots coordinates Euron Good Experimental Methodology Special Interest Group. If robotics aims to be serious science replication of experiments deserves serious attention, on the other end trustable benchmarks are needed in order to allow the comparison of the many research results in service robotics research end enable their industrial application. Some 80/90 members of Euron are backing the initiative.

Heron Robots also cooperates to the RoSta expert group on benchmarking. RoSta is an EU funded initiative to develop standards in service robotics.






If you want to know more, check here

HeronRobots go to SecondLife

With the new year new offices for Heron: we have created a small spot (heron spot) with a few meeting areas for us and our friends in SecondLife ( here you can find a travel guide to this virtual world :-) ).
You will see that the architecture of our offices is sligthly unusual, we have been influenced by the DeChirico exhibition in Padova (don' t miss it if you can).
As Rodica Buzescu, chief architect on the Wired SecondLife offices project, says, "The beauty of Second Life is that it allows you to embody an idea in the form of architecture in a way you never could in real life."
(in the meantime we have opened a small office in Val Polcevera the once (more:-) ) polluted area of Genova)

Click the link, just in case you want to teleport to us :-)

Internet computing for network robotics

Heron is working to harness the internet computing power and grid technologies to develop novel solutions for network robotics (picture on the left courtesy of KAIST)

European grand challenge?

Many of you probably know we have an european version of the DARPA Grand Challenge, if you want to know more check elrob website

Thank you, Arturo

Great lecture from COMAU's Arturo Baroncelli at the International Master of Robotics organized by University of Genova, Kaiser Lautern and Carlos III (with some practical help from HeronRobots)

a picture of sunset ...on Mars... taken by NASA robot Spirit