Recent Items

... that relate directly to EURON

CONGRATULATIONS to Herman and John and the new EURON Board following their success in our big vote. Thanks to all who voted.

EU funding of the current EURON network ends at the end of April 2008.

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Note that EURON stopped accepting new members on Jan 20th.

The server migration on 19th Dec went well, we hope that people were not too inconvenienced.

EURON's funding runs out on 30th April 2008. The network will continue, but the exact form of what can be achieved is still being discussed.

Congratulations to Martin Hägele of Fraunhofer IPA (Stuttgart)! He was awarded the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award in a ceremony in Chicago on June 13th. The Engelberger Robotics Award is a prestigious robotics honour and recognizes outstanding individuals who have contributed to the advancement of the science of robotics and in the service of mankind.

The picture shows Martin and Donald Vincent, Executive Vice President of the Robotic Industries Association.

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The call for Prospective Research Projects PRPs is closing now due to EURON itself having only a few months left. Special Interest Groups SIGs can still be submitted for a little longer. [Review procedure, more information...]

Press Articles

... that talk about EURON
or EURON's events

• Martin Hägele wins the prestigious Engelberger Robotics Award June 2007.
• Press release for the 4th Technology Transfer Award, March 2007.
• BBC on Roboethics 9th March 2007. Story started with South Korea's robot ethics charter on 7th March. National Geographic article from 16th March.
• No sex please, robot, just clean the floor Robo-Ethics in The Times, June 2006.
• Extensive coverage of the EUROS meeting in Palermo, March 2006, in Italian.
• Rules for the modern robot New Scientist article on the EURON Annual Meeting, March 2006.
• Technology Transfer Award 2006: DOC
• Technology Transfer Award 2005: HTML, DOC, picture with caption.

• The press release from the first Technology Transfer Award, March 2004.