Annual robotics competition, ICRA 2008
May 25th, 2008
I was fortunate to get an inside look at the annual ICRA event, known as the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. It is a gathering of about 1200 engineers, about 98% male is the demographic, who spend an entire week listening in on intense workshops based on published essays, a couple nice lunches and dinners combined with a student party and a gravel pit where you have robots perform on the terrain. I was a bit let down because the robots at the conference were more about education or the Mar’s rover type of robotic vehicle. I was hoping for more artificial intelligence robots like the Honda Asimo of sorts. Nonetheless, there was a couple cool things that I did see. Such as the supposed robot from the YouTube hit, KeepOn. The highlight would be this robot... Continue Reading...
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