The 3rd Summer School on Surgical Robotics took place from September 5-12 in Montpellier, France. Many thanks to all who took part.

The Player Summer School on Cognitive Robotics took place from 6-14 August in Munich, Germany. Many thanks to all who took part. The presentations from this school together with some pictures will appear on their website shortly. Contact: Radu Bogdan Rusu rusu AT cs.tum.edu

From March 25 - 30 the Virtual Reality and Robotics Lab. of Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Spain) organized the 2nd International EURON-UMH Winter School on Parallel Robotics. This Winter School was primarily addressed to young researchers (PhD and advanced Master students) interested on PKM and their underlying techniques. Students were exposed to the latest technologies in the analysis of parallel robots, and they could closely interact for one week with some of the top-level researchers in the world in this area. They also had the opportunity to discuss their research work with these researchers, as well as with other European students. 29 students attended from all over Europe and Latin America.

Summer-School on Assistive Robots IURS-2007 took place from September 24-28 in Benicàssim, Spain. Contact: Pedro J. Sanz Valero sanzp AT icc.uji.es

The Rescue Robotics Camp took place from September 22nd - 26th in Rome, Italy. Contact: Daniele Calisi daniele.calisi AT dis.uniroma1.it

Please forward this information to any postgraduate student who isworking in these areas, or anyone else who might be interested.

Schools in 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, and the first two years.

... are temporarily "on hold" due to changes in funding. We expect them to continue, so hopefully there will be a new Call soon.