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Während der Europäischen Robotikwoche (28.11. - 02.12.2011) werden in Bonn/St. Augustin und in Stuttgart
jeweils Programmiermarathons auf dem KUKA youBot, einem omnidirektionalen mobilen Manipulator
für Ausbildung und Forschung, durchgeführt.

Gefragt sind youBots, die:
• sich mit Laserschwertern duellieren
• Spielzeugkarosserien schleppen
• Schiffscontainer leeren
• IKEA Möbel montieren
• Paletten umstapeln
• Basketball oder Handball spielen
• gemeinsam Walzer tanzen

Wir bieten:
• youBot Hardware und Software
• Pizza, Pasta und Softdrinks

Wir erwarten:
• fundierte Kenntnisse und Erfahrungen in der Softwareentwicklung
• Neugier, Kreativität, Spieltrieb und Ausdauer
• open source Software für youBot
• spannende Demos

Teilnehmer können eine Woche lang auf einem der neusten und vielseitigsten Robotersysteme der Welt
coole Software entwickeln. Der Kreativität sind kaum Grenzen gesetzt.

Veranstalter in Stuttgart:
Locomotec UG
Nobelstraße 15
70569 Stuttgart
Tel. (0711) 656 936-0

Anmeldungen unter:
hackathon@locomotec.com

Veranstalter in Bonn/St.Augustin:
Masterstudiengang
Autonome Systeme
Grantham-Allee 20
53757 St. Augustin
Tel.: 02241 865 251

Anmeldungen unter:
Email: Bjoern.Kahl@h-brs.de

Anmeldefrist jeweils: 14.11.2011

*Bei Kollisionen mit Vorlesungen und anderen Lehrveranstaltungen
können auf Nachfrage alternative Termine verabredet werden.

                                

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During the European Robotics Week (28.11. - 02.12.2011*) there will be
in Bonn/St. Augustin und in Stuttgart each programming marathons on a
KUKA youBot, an omni-directional mobilemanipulator for education and research.

For a whole week participants can develop cool software on one of
the most recent and versatile robot system: the KUKA youBot.

There will be no limits to your creativity. At the end of the week
we would like to see youBots
* hauling together large work pieces
* emptying toy models of ship containers
* assembling IKEA furniture or
* stacking pallets
as much as youBots which
* fight each other with toy laser swords
* play basket ball or handball or
* dance waltz together.

We offer
* free access to youBot hardware and software
* free supply of pizza, pasta and softdrinks for the entire week

We expect
* sound knowledge and experience in software development
* curiousity, creativity, durance
* open source software for the youBot
* exciting demos

Organizers:
  Locomotec UG
  Nobelstraße 15
  70569 Stuttgart, Germany
  Tel. +49 711 656 936-0
  Email: hackathon@locomotec.com

  Master Course Autonomous Systems
  Univ. of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhine-Sieg
  Grantham-allee 20
  53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany
  Tel. +49 2241 865-251
  Email: bjoern.kahl@h-brs.de

Venues:
* Technologiezentrum der Univ. Stuttgart, Stuttgart
* Univ. of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhine-Sieg, Sankt Augustin

Dates:
  28.11. - 02.12.2011 *)

Registration deadline:
  14.11.2011


*) In case of time clashes with lectures and other educational
events we can off alternative dates upon request.

KUKA youBot will be presented at the international Robot EXhibition (iREX) 2011 from November 9 (Wed.) - 12 (Sat.), 2011 (for 4 days). Come to the Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight) and see KUKA youBot on the booth of KUKA Robotics Japan. More information can be found on the following web sites:

http://www.nikkan.co.jp/eve/irex/english/general.html
http://www.kuka-robotics.com/japan/ja/?

Picture from the booth:

KUKA youBot will be present at exhibition and in workshops at the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) from September 26-30, 2011 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA.

On Monday, September 26, 4pm, at the special symposium in Continental Parlor 7, that will highlight 12 of the best demo proposals, with short descriptions of the demos by the authors ("SP10 – Haptic coupling with augmented feedback between the KUKA youBot and the PR2 robot arms"): http://www.iros2011.org/demos

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 8:00-9:30, Continental Ballroom 4 in the Forum "Robots: The New Commercial Platforms" with speaker Bernd Liepert, KUKA Laboratories, Germany: http://iros2011.org/forums

Let's meet where the continents meet:

From July 5-11, 2011, KUKA youBot will be present at this year's RoboCup in Istanbul, Turkey.
The event will take plave at the Istanbul Expo Center, WTCI.

RoboCup 2011 will be open to public attendance from July 7 to 10 July. Tickets will be available soon.
http://www.robocup2011.org/en/

Come to Berlin and see KUKA's coolest robots,
KUKA youBot and two KUKA-LWRs,
at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS)
25th International Congress and Exhibition.

http://www.cars-int.org/
The exhibition takes place on June 23 - 24, 2011 at the Estrel Hotel in Berlin.

KUKA youBot will be present at exhibition and in workshops at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011) from May 9 to 13, 2011 at the Shanghai International Conference Center and the Shangri-La Hotel Shanghai Pudong in Shanghai, China.
http://www.best-of-robotics.org/icra2011workshop/
http://www.icra2011.org/

KUKA youBot will be on tour in April:

* 10th RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg (GER) from March 31 - April 3, 2011
http://www.robocupgermanopen.de
* Hannover Messe 2011 in Hannover (GER) from April 4-8, 2011
http://www.hannovermesse.de/product/kuka-systems-gmbh?product=241207&directLink=D542884
* European Robotics Forum in Västerås (SWE) from April 6-8, 2011
http://www.eurobotics-project.eu/cms/index.php?idcat=40

The software section on KUKA youBot store has received a new face and plenty of new software. In the store youBot users will find basic software, which allows them to operate their youBot. They will find further software and example programs that will help them to develop their own software. All software is open source and continues to be under development with new releases being published regularly.

Manufacturing of KUKA youBot mobile platforms started on January 24, 2011, but had to be suspended shortly afterwards because of delivery problems of sub-suppliers. Manufacturing will be resumed in week 8.

On January 24, 2011, a software developer team at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences lead by Ph.D. student Jan Paulus has released a first version of an open source youBot application programming interface (youBot API). The work is a byproduct of the work that the research team is doing within the European project BRICS - Best Practice in Robotics. The youBot API allows the users to program the youBot in joint space.
The software which is still under development is available over https://github.com/youbot/.