Flowers are in bloom, birds are singing and Madrid is more beautiful than ever. IROS2018 workshops and tutorials have been announced recently. 48 workshops (33 full-day and 15 half-day) and 8 tutorials (3 full-day and 5 half-day) will be hosted on Monday, 1st October, and Friday, 5th October. Some of them have already opened the registration. Visit https://www.iros2018.org/workshops and https://www.iros2018.org/tutorials to get all the details.
Several competitions have already announced their call for participants. If you are interested on drone racing, service robot league, mobile manipulation, or minesweepers, don’t hesitate and sign up now. Other competitions will open soon. Find out more about IROS 2018 competitions here: https://www.iros2018.org/competitions
We are very happy to announce the winners of the IROS Fan Challenge Phase I. In Modality A the winners are UMass-NASA (Amherst, Boston, USA), Cothink Robotics and Feifan AI (Changsha, China), and SRM Team (Chennai, India). In Modality B, the winners are KOREATECH (Chungnam, South Korea), DLR Team ZLP (Augsburg, Germany), and CORO (Montreal, Canada). Remember that Phase I winners will present their papers in a Special Session at IROS 2018. Call for Phase II is open until June 30. All the info, here.
18 EU Research Projects have been accepted to participate as exhibitors in IROS 2018: Echord++, AEROARMS, MURAB, RETRAINER, FLOURISH, EDEN2020, SECOND HANDS, BADGER, SWEEPER, Bots2ReC, XoSoft, ReconCell, DeTOP, SoMa, SoftPro, SafeLog, BabyRobot, and HORSE.
This month we would like to thank the following companies for joining IROS 2018 Exhibition: Robotis (also Bronze sponsor), Gaitech (also a Special Sponsor), and FOLDAWAY-haptics, NANOTEC ELECTRONIC, ANYbotics, ClearPath Robotics, UJI, HispaRob, Robocity, and Robotplus. If your company is interested in exhibiting at IROS 2018, do not wait longer – booths are limited!
Stay tuned for more updates!