The AGAI participated in various activities at this year's HRI conference. Annika Peters took part in the Pioneers Workshop which she found an excellent opportunity for networking. Moreover, we (Manja Lohse and Britta Wrede) organized the workshop on "The role of expectations in intuitive HRI" together with Verena Hafner, Yukie Nagai, and Joachim Meyer. The workshop raised a lot of interest and many researchers from various fields attended it. For some material and the proceedings please visit the workshop website.

So, RoboCup 2009 is over and ToBI (Team of Bielefeld) plus supporters are safely back in Bielefeld (having endured a 14 hour train-ride back, due to several delays for various reasons). Here is the final photo from the arena

Be sure to congratulate them, when you see them ;-)

The final results are in and Team ToBI achieved 8th place! While not as high as we hoped, the team is proud (and tired ;-) and will now be heading off too celebrate :-)

We just took a photo of all @Home participants and their robots. Yours truly was drafted on the spot to be the "official" photographer. Oh well ;-) Enjoy!

Phew. The PartyBot task was not... entirely successfull, really. Due to technical problems, 6 of 10 minutes were lost and in the remaining 4, not much could be done. Luckily for us, we can repeat it tomorrow, which is very important as we're only competing on 2 tasks, instead of 3. Also, many other teams didn't manage to do it very well, even without technical problems.