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IRC Robot World |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 01 November 2012 09:56 |
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Jennifer and the UofM Humanoids team competed at the IRC Robot World in Seoul, Korea. Robot World is the largest robotics event in Korea with 12,000 participants and spectators. Jennifer won 3rd place in the sprint event and in the marathon. There were 12 teams total and new world records in both events. The team's Firefly hats were also apparently a big media hit.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 November 2012 10:01 |
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On the BBC |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 24 August 2012 12:40 |
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Some of our FIRA HuroCup work was featured on the BBC this week - and they added some cool graphic work on top of it!
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Winner, ICRA 2012 DARwIn-OP Humanoid Application Challenge |
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Written by John Anderson
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Tuesday, 22 May 2012 10:13 |
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Thanks to the hard work of our lab members, we came out ahead of eight other finalists from across North America to win the ICRA 2012 DARwIn-OP Humanoid Application Challenge. The competition involved developing new applications for humanoid robots. Our entry began with our earlier video submission of Jennifer, the hockey playing robot. Our work on Jennifer since this debut has included better control and balancing, and work on using both ice skates and inline skates. Jennifer is named after Jennifer Botterill, the Canadian three-time Olympic gold medal hockey player.
Out of the initial submissions, eight finalists were chosen to present their work at the ICRA conference in St. Paul, MN. We were impressed with the stiff competition. More information on the competition can be found here:
- Robotis.com
- Robotsource.org
Winning this competition has brought us another much-appreciated piece of research equipment: another DARwIn-OP to add to our hockey team. The support software is also much appreaciated.
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Vote for Jennifer |
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Written by John Anderson
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 09:55 |
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Our initial video debuting Jennifer the hockey-playing robot was entered in a competition at the ICRA conference in St. Paul. One component of this competition is viewer votes. Please have a look at our video, and the others in the competion, and cast your vote for the best video here!
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Discovery Channel |
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Written by John Anderson
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Tuesday, 06 March 2012 23:22 |
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Our work with Jennifer, our new autonomous hockey-playing robot, was featured tonight on The Discovery Channel's Daily Planet. It was a really great shoot, and we'd like to thank the Bisons for coming out and adding to the action. You can jump to small (50 MB), medium (100 MB) or large (200mb) size versions of the video (6:16).
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 March 2012 10:04 |
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