During the European Robotics Week 2020 I am pleased to welcome you to the First ever Autonomous Robotics Meetup in Helsinki Area.

Talks and topics for the meetup are still being finalized but I hope you will find time to attend.

We have 3 speakers sharing their knowledge with us.

1. Reza Ghabcheloo, Associate Professor @ Tampere University

Prof. Reza Ghabcheloo is leading the research group Autonomous Mobile Machines in Tampere University. He has over 20y of experiences in robotics and 12y in autonomous working machines area. He is responsible for Robotics major in Tampere University. He is a project leader or WP leader of several project on this topic https://www.tuni.fi/en/reza-ghabcheloo

No Robot is an Island!

In this talk, I will try to answer the following questions: What do we need to make a mobile work machine autonomously perform a task? What else do we need to make an autonomous mobile machine actually be useful in a worksite? What are the current trends in the industry?

2. Pekka Kososnen and Ahti Heinla

Software Systems and Autonomous Driving behind Starship Delivery Bots

Starship Technologies is revolutionizing deliveries with autonomous robots. The robots are designed to deliver food, groceries, and packages across campus in minutes. Starship delivery robots have completed over 500,000 autonomous deliveries, traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, crossed over 5 million roads and met millions of people in cities around the world. Starships technology has been built for over 6 years and the engineering departments are located in Helsinki and Tallinn.

3. Mikko Pohja
   Master Builder, Emerging Business at Futurice⠀|⠀Toy Car Specialist at markku.ai

How I added spatial awareness to a DIY robot

In this hands-on presentation I will go through how I implemented simple localization and mapping into a DIY tracked robot. The main ingredients in cooking this soup were edge computing, computer vision and neural networks.

Please join us!