When: Tuesday, Feb. 19 and Thursday, Feb. 21, 17:00 - 20:00 (2 Day workshop)

Where: Garaza FRI

Presenter: Dr. David Crawley, Ubiquity Robotics

If you wanted to build a robot, what would you build? Imagine having a robotic platform that has all the basic elements (drive train, motor controllers, software stack) already in place. Imagine not needing to spend time, effort and money getting the basics right, but being able to just sit down and start building your own robot app quickly and easily. In this event you will get to try out the Magni platform, a ROS-based ground rover than can carry 100 kg. Ubiquity Robotics, the makers of Magni, challenge you to build something cool using it!

Suggested ideas are:

a cocktail waiter robot,
a cookie delivery robot,
a dog chasing robot and
robot baggage porter.

Your own ideas are warmly welcomed. (And yes, it can be done in 2 days!) Pizza and silly prizes will be provided.

Ubiquity Robotics is a start up that really did come out of a garage in Silicon Valley. There will be time to talk about life and business in Silicon Valley.

Prerequisites:

laptop (w/Linux or w/Linux VM on it - you can download a suitable VM here )
programming skills
no robot/ROS knowledge necessary!

Agenda:

Day 1 (Feb 19)

17:00 Start - kick off
17:05 Introduction to the challenges
17:10 Introduction to the robot, ROS and the software coding system
17:25 Start Hacking on robots
19:00 (Pizza arrives)
20:00 Wrap up for Day 1

Day 2 (Feb 21)

17:00 Continue Hacking
18:00 Hacking
19:00 Hacking
19:30 Demo (Pizza arrives)
19:45 Prize awards and wrap up

Workshop: So you want to build robots? (2 Days)

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