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[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.26.0.

2012-02-01T15:16:44+09:00

[NOTICE]

The RoboPlus software has been updated from 1.0.25.2 to 1.0.26.0.

Please refer to the link below for detailed information :

Go to Download Page

For those who already have RoboPlus installed, simply turn on the RoboPlus software (with internet connection),

and a pop-up note will appear to help you with the update.

Thank you.

ROBOTIS

[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.25.2.

2011-12-27T11:17:11+09:00

[NOTICE]

The RoboPlus software has been updated from 1.0.24.0 to 1.0.25.2.

Please refer to the link below for detailed information :

Go to Download Page

For those who already have RoboPlus installed, simply turn on the RoboPlus software (with internet connection),

and a pop-up note will appear to help you with the update.

Thank you.

ROBOTIS

[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.24.0.

2011-12-20T17:34:34+09:00

[NOTICE]

The RoboPlus software has been updated from 1.0.23.0 to 1.0.24.0.

Please refer to the link below for detailed information :

Go to Download Page

For those who already have RoboPlus installed, simply turn on the RoboPlus software (with internet connection),

and a pop-up note will appear to help you with the update.

Thank you.

ROBOTIS

[ROBOCUP 2012] Special Offer

2011-12-19T16:29:31+09:00

http://www.tzi.de/humanoid/bin/view/Website/Call2012

See #9, for the special DARwIn-OP offer for the Humanoid Soccer Teams!

Call for Participation

RoboCup 2012 Humanoid League

June 18-24, 2012 (Mexico City, Mexico)

http://www.robocup2012.org/

The RoboCup humanoid league is inviting interested teams to apply for participation at the RoboCup 2012 competition in Mexico City. The humanoid league will host competitions in three classes: kid, teen, and adult sized robots. For more information about the humanoid league, please refer to the humanoid league home page at http://www.tzi.de/humanoid.

Due to restrictions on the number of teams able to participate at RoboCup 2012, all teams must provide the qualification material described below. The technical committee will evaluate the qualification material and select the best teams.

Team Data
- Team name
- URL of the team's home page
- Name of team leader or team contact person
- E-mail address of team leader or contact person
- Postal address of the team, team leader or contact person
- Competition class: kid or teen or adult size
Please note that teams applying for participation in several classes must submit individual application material for each class and pay the appropriate registration fee for each class. Furthermore, teams in different classes must be able independent and able to compete at the same time.
Robot Video
The first part of the qualification material is a video of your robot demonstrating your team's autonomous soccer playing skills.
The minimum standard for qualification is:
- localization of unknown ball position,
- walking ability towards the ball,
- robot positioning at the ball for kicking,
- kicking the ball towards the goal,
- ability of getting up autonomously from a fall.
However, more complex and intelligent behavior of teams of robots demonstrating localization and team play are preferred. Videos of your team during competition are also good.
The qualification video must be supplied as a link to it via www.youtube.com. The maximum duration of the video is 5 minutes. The qualifying team is responsible to ensure that the video adheres to YouTube's TOS (especially in regards to music copyright) to prevent the video from being blocked for the reviewers.
No video means no qualification!
Team Description Paper
A team description paper (TDP) must be submitted which:
- includes a statement committing to participate in the RoboCup 2012 Humanoid League competition,
- includes a statement committing to making a person with sufficient knowledge of the rules available as referee during the competition,
- fully describes the scientific aspects of your humanoid robot system and your research interests,
- includes a summary of previous relevant achievements in research and development as well as publications,
- mentions prior performance in RoboCup competitions
- states explicitly whether software from other teams is used and if yes, which parts are used and what the team's own contributions are
The TDP is limited to 8 pages maximum. It must be original work.
The TDP must follow the LNCS format which can be downloaded from here
The paper must be submitted in PDF format.
The quality of the TDP and the robot video will be decisive for qualification.
Other evaluation criteria include contributions to the RoboCup community by release of significant papers or software.
New teams and teams from countries that have not previously taken part in RoboCup competitions may be given priority.
In the future, the TC may include the fulfillment of the statement of commitment of participation as well as the performance of the team's referee in previous RoboCups.
Robot Specification
A one-page specification (PDF) for each different type of humanoid robot used by the team that includes the followings:
- Robot picture
- Robot name
- Height of the robot
- Weight of the robot
- Walking speed
- Number of degrees of freedom
- Type of motors
- Type of sensors used (incl. type of camera(s))
- Computing unit(s)
- Other specs
Online Submission
All qualification material must be submitted online at http://application.germanteam.org/entries/new (The application page will open before January 2012.)
Deadline
Deadline for submission: * January 29, 2012 *
Announcement of qualified teams: February 16, 2012
Publication
Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification material of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Teams applying for participation therefore grant the right of publication of their qualification material to the humanoid league.
Rules
The rules of the RoboCup 2012 Humanoid League are discussed at https://lists.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-humanoid and will be published at http://www.tzi.de/humanoid
DARwIn OP
ROBOTIS (http://www.robotis.com) provides an offer for selected humanoid RoboCup teams to purchase a set of DARwIn-OP robots for a reduced price. ROBOTIS offers teams that intend to participate in RoboCup 2012 to purchase five robots for the price of four - that is $38,400 (4*$9,600USD) for a team of five DARwIn-OP (Academic Edition) robots. Please note that the quoted price does not include shipping and handling charges.
Teams that are interested in this offer need to apply for this offer by December 31st. Selected teams will be able to buy the robots under the special offer until the middle of February. (contactus2@robotis.com)

With best regards,

Technical and Organization Committees of RoboCup Humanoid League 2012

P.S. Special thanks go to Thomas Roefer and Tim Laurinat from DFKI Bremen for their support of the HL submission and web page.

[FIRA 2012] Special Offer

2011-12-08T15:20:18+09:00

http://fira.net/?mid=news&document_srl=3776

FIRA Teams,

Together with ROBOTIS, we have arranged for a special promotional offer of the ROBOTIS' DARwIn-OP robot for the FIRA HuroCup United 5 vs 5 soccer competition, which will be held for the first time at FIRA 2012 in Bristol (I hope to see you all there). The rules of the competition are currently being finalized. However, a couple of things have already been decided: (a) the competition is not limited to one robot only (in contrast to the RoboCup Standard Platform League). So custom built or other commercially available humanoid robots will be allowed to play as long as they fit under the FIRA HuroCup rules, (b) teams will be mixed and robots will receive points for each successful action (e.g., touch the ball, score a goal, making a goalie save), and (c) a standard extensible language for communicating between the different robots (probably based on JSON) will be made available soon, so that robots can communicate with each other.

ROBOTIS Special Offer:

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ROBOTIS has kindly agreed to sell the <a href="http://www.ROBOTIS.com/xe/darwin_en"> ROBOTIS DARwIn-OP </a> Academic Edition for a special price to FIRA HuroCup teams. The kit includes a complimentary hard case, 1 yr warranty on replacement parts. ROBOTIS has also agreed to provide on site support at the next three FIRA competitions. The cost of the kit is $9,600 (Excluding shipping and handling charges, taxes, and custom charges). However, for each ROBOTIS DARwIn OP sold under this special agreement, the team will receive $2,000 travel support ($1,000 per year for a maximum of two years) to attend the FIRA HuroCup WorldCup in Bristol and Malaysia. Furthermore, ROBOTIS will make a donation to the FIRA organizers which will allow us to keep the registration fees low. This offer is only available to old and new FIRA teams. Teams that purchase a DARwIn-OP through this offer must be willing and able to perform their own routine maintenance on the robots - the one year warranty only applies to replacement parts that must be shipped with an return merchandise authorization (RMA) number.

So if you have been considering buying a ROBOTIS DARwIn-OP and to participate at FIRA HuroCup, then now would be a good time. The deadline for this special offer is February 15, 2012. Please contact <a mailto:jacky@cs.umanitoba.ca> Jacky Baltes< /a> for more information and ordering information. You can also order from ROBOTIS directly via the <a mailto://contactus2@robotis.com> ROBOTIS Special Offer</a>.

[ICRA 2012] DARwIn-OP Humanoid Application Challenge

2011-11-16T16:12:47+09:00

Objectives:

DARwin-OP is an open platform humanoid project supported by NSF. Being a vision-capable humanoid with full functionality and scalability, researchers are strongly required to join an open source community for cooperative research. (www.robotsource.org) The main objective of this open source challenge is to encourage creative applications from around the globe and maximize contribution for humanoid research.

Registration:

Teams (1-4 members) who use DARwin-OP robot to develop their own application are eligible. Projects using simulation only or customized DARwIn-OPs are also welcome.

Participants required to deliver:

1 minute video demonstration (for online registration and review)
All participants are entitled to receive a free Webots Pro 90 day License (1 each)

Please contact info@robotsource.org to get this license.

For Finalists selected to make presentation at ICRA:

5 minutes free-style demonstration (within 1 meter x 1 meter square table)
5 minutes presentation of project (PPT explanation of robot's functions and technologies)

All necessary equipment and items must be prepared by each participating team.

Important Dates:

Online Video Registration - February 10, 2012
Notification of Finalist - March 10, 2012
Final Presentation - TBD (at ICRA 2012)

Judging Criteria:

Creative Idea - 40%
Technical Skills - 30%
Overall Completion - 30%

Judging Committee:

Professor Dennis Hong (Virginia Tech)
Professor Daniel Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
Peer review among finalists

Registration Form

Please check attachment!!

Awards

1st Place Winner

DARwIn-OP
LabVIEW Robotics Software
Webots Pro

Finalist (by draw)

Bioloid Premium Kit
LabVIEW Robotics Module
Webots Edu

For more details, please visit www.robotsource.org or contact Kayla Kim (info@robotsource.org)

[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.23.0.

2011-08-24T13:37:14+09:00

[NOTICE]

The RoboPlus software has been updated from 1.0.22.0 to 1.0.23.0.

Please refer to the link below for detailed information :

http://www.robotis.com/xe/download_en/40595

For those who already have RoboPlus installed, simply turn on the RoboPlus software (with internet connection),

and a pop-up note will appear to help you with the update.

Thank you.

ROBOTIS

[ROBOFEST] Hexapod Sumo Robot Camp & Competition.

2011-08-08T13:52:45+09:00

Hexapod Sumo Robot Camp & Competition

LOCATION : Lawrence Tech

DATE : August 23, 2011 (TUESDAY)

TIME : (10AM~3PM)

http://www.robofest.net

Registration is free and free lunch will be provided.
Each team can borrow a BIOLOID Premium hexapod robot sponsored by ROBOTIS Inc.
Teams that take this camp are required to compete on Sep. 26 during RoboExpo.

Highly qualified high school teams only.

Please send email to Dr. Chung (chung@LTU.edu) to apply.

Please feel free to check out the videos taken at Oakland University.

http://www.robotis.com/xe/gallery_en/57611

2011 RoboCup humanoid competition winner, DARwIn-OP

2011-07-13T10:54:47+09:00

2011 RoboCup humanoid competition winner, DARwIn-OP

The annual 2011 RoboCup competition was held in Istanbul, Turkey July 5th~11th.

DARwIn-OP wins first place in the humanoid kid-size league!

DARwIn-OP is an open platform humanoid robot with infinite possibilities.

Click! DARwIn-OP’s Competition (Finals) Video

http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwinop/

Adult-size league winner CHARLI uses DYNAMIXELS 100%.

CHARLI also won the prestigious best humanoid award and takes home the Louis Vuitton Cup!

Click! CHARLI’s Competition (Finals) Video

DARwIn-OP Simulator Released: Webots 6.4.0

2011-06-28T16:15:13+09:00

DARwIn-OP Simulator Released: Webots 6.4.0

Thanks to the technical cooperation with Cyberbotics,

ROBOTIS is happy to announce the release of the simulator S/W for DARwIn-OP.

Now, users can download and test DARwIn-OP which include :

- Realistic physics model (masses, torques, inertia)

- Set robot properties (accelerometer, gyro, camera, led)

- Read motion file from source code

(Some functions can be limited for the free version.)

For more information, please visit the following links.

http://www.cyberbotics.com/download

(File: /webots/projects/robots/darwin-op/worlds/Darwin-op.wbt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFIvnh_9rgE

[FORBES] Me And My Robot by Elizabeth Woyke

2011-05-06T10:37:53+09:00

Me And My Robot

Elizabeth Woyke, 05.04.11, 06:00 PM EDT
Forbes Magazine dated May 23, 2011

After decades of false starts personal robots are finally going mainstream in the U.S.

** Virginia Tech prof Dennis Hong and CHARLI, America's first full-size walking humanoid robot. It's perfect for chores.

In the not-too-distant future, your afterwork routine might go something like this: Walk in the door. Note that a robot is vacuuming the living room while another is washing the kitchen floor and another is folding laundry. Your robot butler slides into view. After a quick update on the day's events, it asks what you want for dinner and cues up your favorite music.

SEE ORIGINAL AND FULL POST

[DARwIn-OP] Open Platform Humanoid Project

2010-12-14T17:22:24+09:00

Dear All,

Thank you for the interest & participation

during the IEEE Humanoids 2010 Conference.

(6~8 DEC in Nashiville, TN)

ROBOTIS co-organized DARwIn-OP tutorial with grant from NSF with the R&D collaboratoers which are

Virginia Tech, Purdue Univ, and UPenn.

Visitors, professors, and the media

showed great excitement with DARwIn-OP

not only because of its high performance,

but also for its anticipated open source activities

in the robotics community.

Please click below for more information.

Link for the brochure for DARwIn-OP.

DARwIn-OP Community on SourceForge

IEEE Blog Spectrum

For more information, please e- mail us at contactus2@robotis.com.

[ROBOT MAGAZINE] Robotis Ollo Education Series Robots

2010-10-01T14:19:52+09:00

“Reprinted from the November/December 2010 issue of Robot magazine, www.botmag.com"

Robotis Ollo Education Series Robots

by Jim Walsh

[AX-12+] Nokia N8 TV ad - It's not technology, it's what you do with it.

2010-09-13T09:27:00+09:00

"People all over the world are doing amazing things with Nokia smartphones. From creating a hamster-powered phone charger that keeps their Nokia topped up, to turning their device into something that can help diagnose fatal diseases in remote areas. Incredible. Here are just some of the projects out there that have been discovered."

Find out more about the projects and the brilliant people behind them at http://www.nokia.com/nseries or pre order yours at http://www.nokia.com/n8

... (more info)

Our special thanks to Jidong Yim and Nokia!

Ji-Dong Yim is a Ph.D. Candidate at Simon Fraser University School of Interactive Arts and Technology

Check our more about his robot at http://www.sfu.ca/~jdyim

See Original : http://www.youtube.com/nokia

[BIOLOID] DUROYAL COMMERCIAL IN TAIWAN

2010-08-09T16:57:39+09:00

http://www.duroyal.com.tw

Duroyal, an ice cream company in Taiwan, did a summer commercial using the Bioloid Premium Kit (Humanoid).

The company gave out 10 Bioloid Premium Kits as a gift for crunch pie buyers, to those who had a stick that had “"曠世小子機器人" written on it. The robot plays the role of Caesar in the commercial.

Attached Multimedia

Click below to visit Duroyal’s website.

http://www.duroyal.com.tw/bioloid/index.html

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[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.26.0.

[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.25.2.

[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.24.0.

[ROBOCUP 2012] Special Offer

RoboCup 2012 Humanoid League

June 18-24, 2012 (Mexico City, Mexico)

http://www.robocup2012.org/

[FIRA 2012] Special Offer

[ICRA 2012] DARwIn-OP Humanoid Application Challenge

Objectives:

Registration:

Participants required to deliver:

For Finalists selected to make presentation at ICRA:

Important Dates:

Judging Criteria:

Judging Committee:

Registration Form

Please check attachment!!

Awards

1st Place Winner

DARwIn-OP LabVIEW Robotics SoftwareWebots Pro

Finalist (by draw)

Bioloid Premium Kit LabVIEW Robotics ModuleWebots Edu

[UPDATE] ROBOPLUS ver 1.0.23.0.

[ROBOFEST] Hexapod Sumo Robot Camp & Competition.

2011 RoboCup humanoid competition winner, DARwIn-OP

DARwIn-OP Simulator Released: Webots 6.4.0

[FORBES] Me And My Robot by Elizabeth Woyke

Me And My Robot

After decades of false starts personal robots are finally going mainstream in the U.S.

[DARwIn-OP] Open Platform Humanoid Project

[ROBOT MAGAZINE] Robotis Ollo Education Series Robots

[AX-12+] Nokia N8 TV ad - It's not technology, it's what you do with it.

[BIOLOID] DUROYAL COMMERCIAL IN TAIWAN

DARwIn-OP
LabVIEW Robotics Software
Webots Pro

Bioloid Premium Kit
LabVIEW Robotics Module
Webots Edu