Defining a benchmark — even a sound valid benchmark — could be an easy task, if it is just taken as an academic exercise. Defining a successful benchmark is something completely different. A benchmark can be considered as successful if the community extensively uses it in publications, conferences and reports as a way of measuring and comparing results. To put it in a few words: a benchmark is successful if and only if it is widely accepted by the community at which it is targeted.

This kind of success is somehow difficult to predict but some the following considerations may help:

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Attending meetings is an excellent way of making contacts and friends within the community. The Annual Meetings are the major instrument for this purpose.

A lot of things are happening all the time in the European robotics community: conferences and workshops are being organised, projects are starting, job offers are announced, etc. The EURON mailing list is the place-to-be for all your communications around these topics.