http://robohow.org/ 2019-08-01T12:21:46+00:00 http://robohow.org/ http://robohow.org/lib/tpl/robohowv2/images/favicon.ico text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/2nd_robohow_integration_workshop?rev=1409651481&do=diff Last week, the 2nd joint integration workshop of the project took place in Bremen. PhD students and PostDocs from all project partners came to Bremen to work together to integrate their results and prepare the first review meeting. Participants split up into five sub-groups focussing on different tasks within the project: Importing and representing tracking results from human demonstrations in the knowledge base, executing constraint-based movement descriptions from the plan-based controller… text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/first_prize_in_chalearn_gesture_recognition_competition?rev=1409651481&do=diff The 3D hand tracking technology that has been developed partially within RoboHow by partner FORTH received the 1st place award at the CHALEARN Gesture Recognition Demonstration Competition, organized in conjunction with ICPR 2012, Nov 10-11 2012, Tsukuba, Japan. text/html 2015-09-07T08:55:04+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/home?rev=1441616104&do=diff We are pleased to announce that the RoboHow project has received major attention in media-outlets all over the world, including the MIT Technology Review and the International Business Times. While the review demonstrations from year 2 (pancake baking) and year 3 (pizza making) are the main focus, all aspects of RoboHow's autonomous robot activity is described in detail in over 50 different articles worldwide. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/icra_2013?rev=1409651481&do=diff The RoboHow team is back from a very successful ICRA conference in Karlsruhe. Seven RoboHow-related papers were presented at the conference, in addition to the following highlights: * Prof. Aude Billard (PI in RoboHow) gave a plenary talk on “Teaching Robots to Cook, Relax and Play Catch”. The talk has been streamed to the Web, a recording will be available here. * The paper ”A Probabilistic Framework for Task-Oriented Grasp Stability Assessment” Yasemin Bekiroglu, Dan Song, Lu Wang and Dan… text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/iros_2013_workshop_on_ai-based_robotics?rev=1409651481&do=diff The workshop on "AI-based Robotics" at IROS 2013, co-organized by Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, will discuss recent advances in applying AI technology to robotics. In the past years, there has been a strong trend towards using semantic information in robotics, for instance in form of semantic maps, and we believe that having access to AI methods will be crucial for robots to become intelligent co-workers and skilled household assistants. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/iros_workshop_proceedings_and_presentation_slides_online?rev=1409651481&do=diff The IROS 2013 workshop on AI-based Robotics, co-organized by RoboHow, took place on November 7th at the Tokyo Big Sight conference center. With more than 50 participants, it was very well attended and included talks spanning the whole range of AI techniques, from semantic perception, qualitative and hybrid reasoning to task- and motion planning. Five invited talks gave interesting perspectives on large efforts to bring artificial (and natural) intelligence to robots. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/next_stop_stockholm?rev=1409651481&do=diff The RoboHow consortium meets twice a year for a week full of integration, discussions, presentations, hacking, and socializing -- and this fall, we are heading towards Stockholm, Sweden! The workshop from September 23--27 is hosted by Danica Kragic and her colleagues at the CVAP at KTH. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow-kick-off-meeting?rev=1409651481&do=diff 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 … text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow-project-officially-started?rev=1409651481&do=diff 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. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow-robots-on-german-tv?rev=1409651481&do=diff 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: text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow_at_the_eurobotics_forum_in_lyon?rev=1409651481&do=diff The European Robotics Forum 2013 takes place from March 19th to 21st in Lyon, France. RoboHow will be presented during the ”AI meets Robotics... in Europe!” workshop. This workshop will bring together researchers from several European projects that do research at the intersection of AI and robotics. We are looking forward to fruitful discussions! text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow_first_integration_workshop?rev=1409651481&do=diff RoboHow's first integration workshop will take part in the next week. PhDs, post-docs, and principal investigators from all groups involved in the project will come to Munich to discuss future joint research endeavours and coordinate the work of the first year of the project. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow_first_integration_workshop_--_a_summary?rev=1409651481&do=diff We are happy to annouce that the first integration workshop of the project was very successfully. People engaged in mutual teaching activities, fruitful discussions on future research endavours and specified specific interfaces for collaboration. As education activities several smaller workshops were conducted. The offered topics were an introduction of the ROS middleware, how the iTaSC framework and software can be used to specify desired robot motions, and best practices for collaboration of … text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow_in_the_news?rev=1409651481&do=diff Following up on the second integration workshop, we held a press conference about the RoboHow project on February 27th. The robot presented its skills in flipping pancakes using a constraint-based controller developed in the RoboHow project and prepared popcorn for the journalists. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow_partners_selected_for_google_summer_of_code_2014?rev=1409651481&do=diff [ ] The Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI) at the University of Bremen, coordinator of the RoboHow project and maintainer of the CRAM and KnowRob systems, has been selected as mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2014. The Summer of Code initiative, started in 2005, sponsors students during the summer months for contributing code to selected open source projects. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/robohow_takes_part_in_the_european_robotics_week?rev=1409651481&do=diff The European Robotics Week is a yearly one-week event packed with robotics-related activities all over Europe to promote robotics research to the general public, inform about the state of the art and current achievements, and to motivate pupils to consider a job in technology-related fields. Activities include lectures, practical workshops for highschool students, lab tours, open days, exhibitions and more. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/rss_2013_workshop_on_programming_with_constraints?rev=1409651481&do=diff RoboHow partners KU Leuven and Uni Bremen are co-organizing a workshop on “Programming with constraints: Combining high-level action specification and low-level motion execution” at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference in Berlin. The workshop aims at discussing problems that emerge in the interplay of high-level action specification and low-level motion execution. A particular focus will be on how constraint-based task description can bridge the gap between these representations, which i… text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/the_researchers_in_robohow_explain_their_work?rev=1409651481&do=diff During the recent RoboHow integration workshop, we used the opportunity that all project partners assembled at one place to record a video and let them explain their work in the project. A major topic of the workshop was the integration of software components developed by different partners in different work packages -- both regarding the underlying concepts and regarding the software itself. The video highlights some of the collaborations that are going on and their role in RoboHow. text/html 2014-09-02T09:51:21+00:00 http://robohow.org/blog/unihb-enters-consortium?rev=1409651481&do=diff Following the move of Prof Michael Beetz and his research group from Technische Universität München (TUM) to University of Bremen (UniHB), UniHB is now coordinating the RoboHow project while TUM has left the consortium. We would like to express our thanks to everyone at TUM who helped and supported the project in its early stages. We would also like to thank everyone at the European Commission and UniHB involved in moving the project from TUM to UniHB.