The UCD first UCD Robotics Open Day was a great success. For a quick run-down of how the day went, please see the UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics news article about the day.

Demos: 1pm-2.30pm, Coffee Area, Computer Science

Talks: 3.30pm-7pm, B1.09, Computer Science

Getting there: http://csi.ucd.ie/directions

The UCD Robotics Group is proud to announce the first UCD Robotics Open Day sponsored by the UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics, the Clarity Centre for Sensor Web Technologies and the European robotic project RUBICON.

On February 9th 2012, we are opening our labs and robots to students from schools and universities, as well as the Irish robotics and general academic community in the form of lab tours, hands-on demonstrations and invited talks featuring robotics researchers from all over Ireland.

Demonstrations

Demonstrations will be held in the coffee area in the School of Computer Sciene & Informatics between 1pm and 2.30pm and will, among others, feature work from our main robotics projects. Please see the individual links for more details:

• RUBICON : Robotics UBIquitous COgnitive Network
• MiRA - Mixed Reality Agents
• ACorDE: Autonomous Control Development Environmet

Invited Talks

The day will also feature invilted talks by several high-profile robotics researchers from all over Ireland. Please see below for the finalised timetable for the day

15:30 - 15:45 Prof. Gregory M.P. O'Hare, Clarity Centre, UCD
   Introductory address

15:45 - 16:15 Conor McGinn, Trinity Robotics Club, TCD
    How to Get Involved with Building Robots in Ireland
    
16:15 - 16:45 Dr. Mauro Dragone, RUBICON, UCD
    Robotics UBIquitous COgnitive Network (RUBICON)

16:45 - 17:15 Dr. Bryan Gardiner, Intelligent Systems Research Centre, UU Magee
    Mobile Robotics Research at UU Magee

17:15 - 17:30 COFFEE BREAK

17:30 - 18:00 Dr. John Kelleher, Robotics Group, DIT
    Robotic Dialogue and Spatial Cognition

18:00 - 18:30 Howell Jordan, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, UL
    Constrained Hardware, Smart Robots: A Software Engineering Challenge

18:30 - 19:00 Jennifer Treanor, UCD Robotics
    ACorDE: Lowering the bar for robotics development

Come along

If you are interested in joining, please drop us a line at thomas.holz@ucd.ie