Cracow Robotics & AI Meetup #5

Where?
Techies Kraków Na Zjeździe 11, Kraków, Poland, 30-527
https://www.facebook.com/techies.krakow/

When?
10.07.2023 Start at 18:30

Agenda:
18:45 - Building a low-cost autonomous personal robot - Maciej Stępień
19:45 - Short break and beer time!
20:00 - Stable Diffusion and $10 - Tomasz Wrona
21:00 - The latest trends in robotics - brief summary of the ICRA - Maciej Aleksandrowicz
21:30 - Networking and beer time once again!

• [ENG] Building a low-cost autonomous personal robot - Maciej Stępień
  Roomac is a low-cost autonomous general-purpose robot that consists of a differential drive mobile base and a 5-DoF manipulator. The costs of the whole construction summed up to around 2700zł and using this platform I was able to create a proof-of-concept application - fetching a bottle to the user. In this presentation I will give a brief summary of the project, describing both construction and ROS-based software for autonomous navigation and manipulation.
  About the speaker:
  Robotics Software Engineer at Husarion, M.Sc. graduate of Automatics and Robotics at the EAIiIB Faculty of the AGH UST. Professionally working on mobile robots software using ROS and ROS 2, also a passionate roboticist, completing several hobby projects (about which you can find out more on page https://macstepien.github.io/).
• [ENG] Stable Diffusion and $10 - Tomasz Wrona
  It has been a year since Stable Diffusion, the largest open-source image generation pipeline, was released. Since then, many improvements have been done, and new tools have been introduced. In this presentation, I’d like to present to you the most interesting ones (subjectively), as well as how to try them on your own, using cheap GPU cloud instances.
  About the speaker:
  Machine Learning Research Engineer at Let’s Enhance, M.Sc. in Automatics and Robotics (AGH UST). Previously, working on applying reinforcement learning to practical problems, such as testing web applications and autonomous driving.
• [ENG] The latest trends in robotics - brief summary of the ICRA - Maciej Aleksandrowicz
  What you get by combing competitions, manufacturers exhibitions and scientific conferences dedicated for robots? The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Let's dig together through the most interesting highlights from the conference, focusing mainly on the robotics laboratory tours of QMU and UCL universities!
  About the speaker:
  Robotics Software Engineer, working mainly in ROS 2 since Dashing. Currently PhD Student @ AGH UST (Krakow), focusing his efforts on researching deep reinforcement learning for robotics. In his free time, he is a technology enthusiast.

The meeting sponsors are:

• Techies Kraków (Codete)
• Husarion

**Want to be a speaker? Reach out to us at cracow.robotics@gmail.com**

About our sponsors:
Codete is a software company based in Poland that specializes in custom software development and IT consulting. Codete in numbers:

• 350+ specialists
• 3 offices in Krakow, Lublin, Berlin, and coworking spaces in major Polish cities (Warsaw, Wroclaw, and Gdansk).
• 120+ projects
• 70+ clients from around the world

In January 2022 Codete opened its own resto-bar Techie’s, where we host the best tech events in town.

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Husarion is a manufacturer of mobile robot platforms and a provider of software solutions for autonomous driving and peer-to-peer low-latency networking for robotics and IoT.
- Over 200 tech companies use Husarion robots.
- More than 100 tech universities use Husarion robots.
Husarion offers a range of solutions, including:
- Panther: a general-purpose, heavy-duty outdoor mobile robot platform for agriculture, construction, surveillance and mining sectors.
- ROSbot XL: an indoor mobile robot platform for inspection and delivery of light loads.
- ROSbot 2R / 2 PRO: small and affordable mobile robots designed for research and education.
- Husarnet: a dedicated peer-to-peer VPN designed specifically for robotics and IoT.