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Lecture held by Santiago Martínez de la Casa (UC3M, member of RoboCity2030) about robotics in construction. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, auditorium. November, 18th, 10:15.

MICINN (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) will boost the development of a joint humanoid robotics laboratory between Spain (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Japan (Information Technology & Electronics Laboratory from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AISTJapan).rn

A lunar rover designed by students of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has participated to the Lunar Robotics Challenge of the ESA, an international competition held in the Teide Volcano, together with other seven prototypes form various european Universities. In this landscape, similar to the one that can be found in the moon s craters, the robots had to descent into a crater and collect soil samples, overcoming locomotion, communications and teleoperation difficulties in an harsh environment. The team hes been supervised by professors and researchers of the Robotics and

This week a new book entitled Robotics and Automation in Construction will be published by I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria (ISBN: 978-953-7619-13-8). The book is edited by the members of the Roboticslab Prof. Carlos Balaguer and Dr. Mohamed Abderrahim.

4th RoboCity2030 Workshop (Personal and assistive robots) took place in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (May 29th). The workshop was a great success and there was a lot of networking between members of RoboCity2030. A conference book was also edited.

New pictures from RoboCity2030 s participation have been uploaded. To find visual data from this event click on Activities link and documents therein.

The presence of RoboCity2030 in Madrid es Ciencia fair was a great success. Robots and robotic systems from all the research groups appealed visitors. To find visual data from this event click on Activities link and documents therein.

April, 24-27th, 2008. Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I. IFEMA. Madrid. Pabellones 12 and 14. Free entrance. Stand 136

With a physical form similar to that of a human, humanoid robots can be used as proxies or assistants to perform tasks in a real-world environment on behalf of humans. Various humanoid robots have been developed worldwide, and currently, humanoid robots are able to work in our daily life environment. This talk introduces some of the ongoing research and development of humanoid, and discusses the problems, approaches and applications for the next generation humanoid.rnApril, 17th, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Auditorio Padre Soler. Av. Universidad, 30, Leganés 28911