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.
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 [...]
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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On May 20, 2011, a group of Korean researches visited the Technical University of Eindhoven (NL), in order to get to know European research projects funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The delegation learned about the concepts and aims of RoboEarth and how the project is managed.
The code for the ICRA 2011 demo and other core components of RoboEarth will be released in July 2011. To receive an automatic update sign up for the newsletter!
Funding
Part of the Cognitive Systems
and Robotics Initiative from
the European Union Seventh Framework Programme
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