Our team NimbRo@Home won the competition for service robots at RoboCup German Open 2013.
Our Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform NimbRo-OP received the HARTING Open-Source Award.
More on @Home; more on NimbRo-OP.
Kickoff meeting for the DLR SpaceBot Cup in Berlin. In total ten teams are qualified. More information about our entry NimbRo Centauro.
Our group receives support from DLR to participate at the DLR SpaceBot Cup. The tasks in this challenge are autonomous exploration and mobile manipulation in rough terrain.
In Düsseldorf, the NRW Young Scientist Award 2012 in the category Applied Informatics has been conferred by the B-IT Research School to Nenad Biresev for his publication with Jörg Stückler and Sven Behnke: "Semantic Mapping Using Object-Class Segmentation of RGB-D Images", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS).
Our new NimbRo-OP Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform robot is shown at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Vilamoura, Portugal.
Three diploma theses that were supervised in our group
received an
Diploma thesis award from Bonner Informatik
Gesellschaft (BIG
e.V.):
- Andreas Schmitz: "Hierarchische Schrittplanung für
humanoide Fußballroboter (Hierarchical step planning for humanoid
soccer robots)",
- Torsten Fiolka: "Entropiebasierte
interessante Regionen in 3D Punktwolken (Entropy-based interest
regions in 3D point clouds)", and
- Bastian Oehler:
"Extraktion geometrischer Formprimitive mit Textur- und Reliefkarten
aus 3D Punktwolken mit Farbinformation (Extraction of geometric
primitives with texture and bump maps from 3D point coulds with color
information)".
Our team NimbRo won both the Humanoid
TeenSize competition and technical challenge as well as the @Home League
competition at RoboCup
2012, which took place in Mexico City. In addition, our
soccer robots received the Louis Vuitton Best Humanoid Award.
The
paper J. J. Alcaraz-Jiménez, M. Missura, H. Martínez-Barberá,
and S. Behnke: Lateral
Disturbance Rejection for the Nao Robot received the Best
Paper Award of the RoboCup
Symposium 2012.
Our cognitive service robots won the RoboCup German Open
2012 @Home league competition in Magdeburg.
[Video]
More info ...
Three new research projects start, which are funded by German
Research Foundation (DFG):
The project "Autonomous Learning of Bipedal Walking Stabilization" is
part of the Priority
Programme SPP 1527 "Autonomes Lernen".
The
projects "Lokale Wahrnehmung für die Navigation leichter Fluggeräte"
(local perception for the navigation of lightweight drones) and
"3D-Navigation und Hindernisvermeidung für leichte Fluggeräte" (3D
navigation and obstacle avaoidance for lightweight drones) are part of
the Research
Unit FOR 1505 "Mapping on Demand".
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Our group participates in the European Robotics Week
– 28 November – 4 December 2011. Our event: Prof. Oussama Khatib will give a talk on human-friendly robotics. |
Our Team NimbRo won both the Humanoid TeenSize competition and technical challenge and the competition in the @Home League at RoboCup 2011, which took place in Istanbul. The paper Jörg Stückler and Sven Behnke: "Compliant Task-Space Control with Back-Drivable Servo Actuators" received the Best Paper Award at the RoboCup Symposium 2011. more info ...
Our team NimbRo won the @Home League competition at RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg. In the Standard Platform League (SPL) we reached the second place.
We moved. Our new address is: Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, 1st floor.
A new research project started. The experiment ActReMa - Active Recognition and Manipulation of Simple Parts Exploiting 3D Information - is funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission as part of Call 2 of the European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD). Partners are the Computer Graphics Group of the Institute of Computer Science II in Bonn and Metronom Automation GmbH, Mainz.
Our team won the Humanoid TeenSize soccer tournament
at the RoboCup 2010
competition in Singapore, was elected "Best Humanoid", and reached the
second place in the @Home League. More
info ...
[@Home
Video] [TeenSize
Video]
Our domestic service robot Dynamaid participated at the ICRA Mobile Manipulation Challenge in Anchorage, Alaska. More info ...
Our team participated at the RoboCup German Open competition in Magdeburg in the @Home League and in the Standard Platform League (SPL). In both leagues, our robots reached the second place. Our TeenSize humanoid soccer robots showed their skills in demonstrations. More info...
Our communication robot Robotinho is tested in the Deutsches Museum Bonn. As a tour guide, it explains three of our robots and three permanent exhibits. [Video]
Our humanoid soccer robot Dynaped (Team NimbRo) won the RoboCup 2009 TeenSize Dribble-and-Kick tournament in Graz, Austria. Dynaped also won the TeenSize Technical Challenges. In the @Home league, our Robots Dynamaid and Robotinho came in third. They also won the innovation award for "Innovative robot body design, empathic behaviors, and robot-robot cooperation". More info...
Our humanoid soccer robots (Team NimbRo)
won the RoboCup
German Open competition.
We also participated in the @Home
league, where we came in second.
Soccer video: 
@Home video: 
We receive two "Personal Supercomputers" for our Computational
Intelligence Lab.
They are equipped with 4x GTX295 cards each. The 8 GPUs per box have a
total of 1.920 compute cores.
Our humanoid soccer robots will be demonstrated at B-IT during the university open house for high school students and Schüler-Krypto.
Our KidSize 2006 humanoid soccer robot Paul will be displayed in the science train (Wissenschaftszug) that will travel though Germany.
Our group joins the European Robotics Research Network EURON.
Our soccer robots are demonstrated at the institute party in the Faculty Club.
Our soccer team NimbRo
won the Humanoid League KidSize soccer tournament of RoboCup 2008, which
took place in Suzhou, China.
Video: 
Our soccer team NimbRo
won the humanoid league competitions of RoboCup
German Open 2008, which took place at Hannover Messe.
Video: 
Universität Bonn, Institute for Computer Science, Departments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI
