James and Rosie making popcorn and sandwiches
Having made pancakes and Bavarian sausages, Rosie and James recently moved on to preparing snacks: During a public demonstration at TUM, Rosie toasted and garnished sandwiches, while James preferred making popcorn. Have a look at the video below!
The demonstration has also been featured in the IEEE Spectrum Automaton blog.
Rosie and James on TV
Our robots Rosie and James have been featured in the German TV show 3sat nano. The documentation, aired on November 17, presented different robotic research projects at TUM, including Rosie and James preparing pancakes together.
You can watch the video online in the 3sat mediathek. Other videos of the pancake experiment can be found in our YouTube channel
SAPHARI Project Starts
We are glad to announce that the European Collaborative Project FP7-ICT 287513 SAPHARI started officially on November 1, 2011.
This four-year project is devoted to the Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction.
Additional information can be found in the project web site http://www.saphari.eu.
SAPHARI Partners
- DIS, Universita' di Roma “La Sapienza” (UNIROMA1)
- Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (DLR)
- European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS)
- Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
- Fraunhofer-Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB)
- KUKA Laboratories GmbH (KUKA)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (LAAS-CNRS)
- Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Universita' di Napoli Federico II (UNINA)
- Università di Pisa (UNIPI)
Humanoids 2011
During the Humanoids 2011 conference, there will be a talk explaining the research and technology behind our pancake demonstration. Below is a short video of our robots preparing pancakes for those who have not seen it yet. In addition, we will have several poster presentations: One paper deals with using the Contracting Curve Density algorithm in robotic applications, a second one is about learning which optimization principles a human uses in order to imitate observed motions. The two other papers deal with appropriate tool use and with computing motions for pushing objects around in the desired way.
We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference!
Oral Session V: Systems & Sensors (28.10., 14:30 - 14:50)
- Robotic roommates making pancakes by Michael Beetz, Ulrich Klank, Ingo Kresse, Alexis Maldonado, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Dejan Pangerčič, Thomas Rühr, Moritz Tenorth
Poster Session I: Perception & Human-Robot Interaction (27.10., 10:30 - 12:00)
- Contracting curve density algorithm for applications in personal robotics by Shulei Zhu, Dejan Pangerčič, Michael Beetz
Poster Session III: Learning & Cognition (28.10., 15:30 - 17:00)
- Imitating human reaching motions using physically inspired optimization principles by Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Sebastian Albrecht, Federico Ruiz-Ugalde, David Weikersdorfer, Marion Leibold, Michael Ulbrich and Michael Beetz
- Multimodal autonomous tool analyses and appropriate application by Ingo Kresse, Ulrich Klank and Michael Beetz
- Fast adaptation for effect-aware pushing by Federico Ruiz-Ugalde, Gordon Cheng and Michael Beetz
See you at IROS 2011!
We will have several presentations at IROS 2011 – here is an overview of our regular talks and the workshops we organize or take part in. We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference!
Workshops
- Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots. Organized by Michael Beetz, Rachid Alami, Joachim Hertzberg, Alessandro Saffiotti, and Moritz Tenorth (Sunday, September 25, 09:00-18:00, Continental Parlor 7)
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- Invited talk: Michael Beetz
- Semantic Object Search in Large-scale Indoor Environments. Manabu Saito, Haseru Chen, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba, Lars Kunze and Michael Beetz
- Voxelized Shape and Color Histograms for RGB-D. Asako Kanezaki, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz
- Fast and Robust Object Detection in Household Environments Using Vocabulary Trees with SIFT Descriptors. Dejan Pangercic, Vladimir Haltakov and Michael Beetz
- The PR2 Workshop: Results, Challenges and Lessons Learned in Advancing Robots with a Common Platform.
- Mobile Manipulation of Kitchen Containers. Jan Becker, Christian Bersch, Dejan Pangercic, Benjamin Pitzer, Thomas Rühr, Bharath Sankaran, Jürgen Sturm, Cyrill Stachniss, Michael Beetz, Wolfram Burgard
Conference papers
- Logic Programming with Simulation-Based Temporal Projection for Everyday Robot Object Manipulation. Lars Kunze, Mihai Emanuel Dolha and Michael Beetz (Wednesday September 28, 14:00-14:15, Continental Parlor 7)
- Parameterizing Actions to Have the Appropriate Effects. Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz (Thursday September 29, 2011, 08:45-08:50, Continental Parlor 9)
- Autonomous Semantic Mapping for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Tasks in Kitchen Environments. Nico Blodow, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Ruehr, Moritz Tenorth, and Michael Beetz (Thursday September 29, 2011, 10:55-11:00, Continental Parlor 2)
