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9/22/08 IROS Workshop

The first Learning Robots TC workshop, "Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning" was held at IROS 2008.

10/13/08 Autonomous Robots Special Issue

In 2009, Jan Peters (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics) and Andrew Y. Ng (Stanford) will edit a Special Issue on Robot Learning in the Autonomous Robots journal. We are welcoming submissions - please contact me if you are interested!

10/13/08 Phd Position at LASMEA/Cemagref Clermont-Ferrand France

We are offering a Phd position at LASMEA in collaboration with CEMAGREF. Subject of phd : Obstacle avoidance algorithm in dynamic environment. Contact :

• Roland Lenain : roland.lenain@clermont.cemagref.fr <roland.lenain@clermont.cemagref.fr>
• Benoit THUILOT : Benoit.THUILOT@lasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr <Benoit.THUILOT@lasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr>
• Philippe Martinet : Philippe.Martinet@lasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr <Philippe.Martinet@lasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr>

Send your :

• Curriculum
• One Motivation Letter
• Notes of MASTER and previous diploma

Deadline : 15th november 2008

Upcoming Workshops of Interest

• R:SS 2009: Regression in Robotics - Approaches and Applications
• DAGSTUHL 2009: Cognition, Control and Learning for Robot Manipulation in Human Environments