Atlanta Robotics Monthly Meetup - ONLINE

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Please join us for July's Atlanta Monthly Robotics Meetup ONLINE featuring a presentation from Francisco Martín Rico!

Francisco is a robotics expert, professor at Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain) and a member of Intelligent Robotics Lab. He is a member of the Signal Theory, Communications, Telematic Systems and Computation Department, and of the Communications and Systems Group.

His research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Robotics, Computer Vision, Behavior Architectures, Assistive Robotics, Robot Localization and Navigation and related technologies. He has developed applications for real robotic systems such as Aibo, Nao Humanoid, Kobuki (turtlebot 2), RB-1, Lego NXT, AR-Drone in C, C++, Java, Python, Ada...

He is an expert in ROS, using technologies such as OpenCV, Point Cloud Library (PCL), among others .He has teached in courses such as Operating Systems, Advanced Programming, Real Time Systems, Communications and Robotics. He supervises Final Grade Projects (TFG) in Mobile Robotics. He currently organizes the Official ROS Course at URJC.

The presentation will focus on the Marathon 2: Navigation System for ROS2. Please see the detail here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.00368.pdf

Join for an exciting night of robotics chats, learning, and ONLINE networking!

What to Expect:
• Networking and introduction: 5:00 to 5:30 pm
• Speaker, presentation, and Q&A: 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Future events (when everything normalizes) will still be held at the Atlanta Tech Village and other venues.

This is an ONLINE ONLY event and will be hosted through zoom, you will see the instructions once you RSVP.