RoboHow kick-off meeting
The kick-off meeting of the RoboHow project took place on Tuesday, March 13th, at TU München. With more than 40 participants, it was a very successful meeting and a great start into this exciting project!
The meeting was complemented by a workshop about the different control engineering approaches to be used in the project. Several talks gave insight into the techniques used by the project participants and highlighted their specific strengths and applications. They were complemented by invited talks on the control framework used at DLR for the light-weight robot arm, as well as talks about the OpenRTM framework used for the HRP-2 robot.
RoboHow robots cooking on TV
On Thursday, 2nd February, 19:05, the German TV show “Galileo” on Pro 7 will show a report about Rosie and James cooking Weißwurst, Bavarian-style sausages. Rosie will be the one of the main demonstration platforms in RoboHow.
After the show, the video will be available from here: http://www.prosieben.de/tv/galileo/videos. As a preview, below is a YouTube video showing the Weißwurst experiment:
RoboHow project officially started
We are glad to announce that the RoboHow.Cog project started officially on February 1, 2012. RoboHow.Cog investigates how robots can learn novel actions using descriptions from the Internet, combining written instructions with videos that show how to perform the task.
This project is supported by the European Commision as part of the the Cognitive Systems and Robotics Initiative in the Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013.