Posts by: Alexander Perzylo

European Robotics Week 2011 (Update)

By On November 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Demo, Event

Update (Jan 05, 2012):
More than 100 people joined the introduction to RoboEarth and the interactive workshops. They created and detected their first 3D object models using the RoboEarth platform. We want to thank everyone who helped to organize the successfull event as well as all participants who showed their interest.

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RoboEarth at IROS 2011

By On October 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Event, Workshops

Members of the RoboEarth team contributed seven papers to the IROS’11 conference, which took place in San Francisco (USA) from September 25-30th. In addition, RoboEarth supported a workshop on Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots.

During the workshop Jos Elfring gave an introduction to RoboEarth’s approach to world modelling. [...]

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RoboEarth’s First Open Source Release

By On September 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Demo, News

We are happy to announce RoboEarth’s first open source software release. This release allows you to create 3D object models and upload them to RoboEarth. It also allows you to download any model stored in RoboEarth and detect the described object using a Kinect or a webcam.

If you are familiar with

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RoboEarth – A World Wide Web for Robots

By On June 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In News

The latest issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM) is dedicated to building a WWW for robots.

Our contribution entitled RoboEarth – A World Wide Web for Robots gives an overview of RoboEarth: Its overall architecture, all key components, the available interfaces and an [...]

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RoboEarth in motion: Videos of the first three demonstrators

By On June 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In News

To catch a glimpse of what RoboEarth is all about, watch the following videos showing three demonstrators that have been developed in the last months.

During RoboEarth’s first internal workshop a demonstrator was built to showcase how sharing environmental information can be beneficial to robots, even if they use different hardware and/or software setups:
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