The Robot City Award has been given to Willow Garage for the exceptional contribution of this company to the robotics community by giving in Open Source a Robotics Operating System (ROS), compatible Android & Java.

Bob Bauer, executive director at WIllow Garage, has received it during the cocktail party held at the Town Hall, thrown by the Great Lyon to the occasion of Innorobo 2012.

He also actively participated to the conference cycle happening during the summit by presenting the Cloud robotics and its implications in the conception and programation of robots.

Download his presentation here in pdf

One of his colleague Tim Field, took advantage of the occasion to give an in depth presentation of Heaphy, servers in the cloud that give real intelligence to ROS-enabled robots.

Watch Heaphy présentation here

You can now read or download the slides from Mr Takagi conference about Health and Medical robotics

They are available here : Talks / Talks downloads

The other talks slides will be available soon! Stay tuned!

The European Meeting of Mechatronics is going green for its 10th anniversary!

Wind and solar energy, energy-efficient building, hybrid and electric vehicles, efficient production lines: mechatronics, technology of systems, is by nature in the heart of all developments to optimize the energy resources.

EMM 2012 will explore the prospects, opportunities and new concepts of mechatronics at the service of sustainable development on the 6th and 7th of June in Le Grand Bornand - Haute Savoie, France.

Download the program (in French)

You can now read or download the slides of wednesday 14th of March conferences:

- Cobotic: From the robot assistant to the robot co-worker

- Human Robot perceptions & interactions

Available here : Talks / Talks downloads

The other talks slides will be available soon! Stay tuned!

Press release in pdf file to download

INNOROBO 2012

- The biggest International event dedicated to service robotics in Europe 
confirms its success for its 2nd edition
- A stream of innovations  with outstanding robots
- The place for strategic sharing of knowledge & experiences

Lyon, April 3rd, 2012 – INNOECHO, a company dedicated to the acceleration of emerging ecosystems, the organizer of INNOROBO and SYROBO, the French Federation of service robotics, founding partner, announce positive results for the second edition of INNOROBO summit held in Lyon from the 14th to the 16th 2012.

Once again, INNOROBO was an opportunity to gather among exhibitors and visitors, major protagonists of the robotics world, international companies, research groups and laboratories, education community and academics…

INNOROBO is the must-attend international event in Europe regarding innovation and robotics technologies with 104 exhibitors of 12 nationalities, including a significant representation of Asian delegations (South Korea, Japan, Taiwan).