We are extremely grateful to the support of the euCognition network (www.eucognition.org) which allowed us to accept several excellent candidates who would otherwise not have been able to fund participation in the school.
The RobotCub Summer School, “Veni Vidi Vici,” serves to consolidate and disseminate skills in software engineering for humanoid robots. This year it was held in Sestri Levante, Italy, 21-30 July, 2008.
If you have any question or concern, please contact summerschool@robotcub.org.
The RobotCub Summer School, "Veni Vidi Vici", serves to consolidate and disseminate skills in software engineering for humanoid robots. Our goal is to foster long-lived academic collaboration on robot software across the boundaries and lifetimes of individual projects. The school is hosted by the RobotCub consortium, a collection of institutions working towards an open platform for humanoid research.
This year's school is organized as a "code sprint" to pull together all the software needed to make a humanoid work -- control and perception algorithms for its head, hand, arm, legs, and full body.
This year, the school will be a peer-to-peer event. There will be no lectures, no strict division of instructors and students. All participants are expected to be competent C/C++ programmers with an interest in working with others like them. The school schedule will be organized flexibly around informal tutorials from participants on modules they are working on or interested in. These tutorial will certainly be given by the RobotCub members who will participate, but we encourage everyone to do this. The bulk of our time will be spent working together to integrate modules and implement interesting behaviors for the robot.
We begin the school in the morning of Monday, July 21 2008, and finish in the evening of Wednesday, July 30 2008 (with people leaving during Thursday, July 31 2008). Sunday the 27nd will be free.