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Rover at Game Developers Conference

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After two busy weeks at MWC and CeBIT we are back in the Bay Area at work with Intel at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. If you are attending GDC and want to see Rover in action, please stop by the Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge Winners booth inside the Moscone South Expo hall at the following times:

  • Wednesday, March 19th, 10:00 AM to 12 Noon
  • Thursday, March 20th, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Friday, March 21st, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Outside of these slots you may still be lucky seeing Rover explore the Expo floor 🙂

Rover at Game Developer Conference
Rover at Game Developer Conference

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Rover at CeBIT

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CeBIT is the world’s largest annual IT fair in Hanover, Germany. Being my first CeBIT, I was happy to bring something to show. Once again Rover impressed me, how easily he drew peoples’ attention – young or old, IT pro or consumer. We had plenty of contact with the press, were interviewed by MobileGeeks’ Nicole Scott at Intel’s BloghĂĽtte (watch interview here), by Region Hannover TV, and another european TV station. We talked with authors and editors of several print magazines and made incredibly helpful new friends at Microsoft and SAP. But see for yourself our week at CeBIT 2014 in pictures below.

Rover makes new friends at CeBIT
Rover gets interviewed in the CeBIT TechLounge
MobileGeeks’ Nicole Scott interviews Martin Wojtczyk about Rover – a smart and sensing LEGO self-driving car.
Rover gets interviewed by Region Hannover TV
Rover gets interviewed by Region Hannover TV
Rover befriends Microsoft
Rover makes new friends at Microsoft
Rover makes new friends at CeBIT
Rover starts from pole position at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover meets old and new friends at Intel’s BloghĂĽtte
Rover has a new fan
Rover makes more friends at CeBIT
Rover got noticed by a tank commander
Rover turns heads everywhere
Rover goes for a roll in the CODE_n hall…
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover gets interviewed in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
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CeBIT TechLounge Livestream Interview Featuring Rover

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Cebit TechLounge Livestream Interview What an exciting week at CeBIT 2014 in Hanover! Rover and I had the pleasure to be interviewed by MobileGeeks‘ Nicole Scott for the CeBIT TechLounge livestream hosted in Intel’s BloghĂĽtte. Rover was happy as always and performed well during the interview, but see for yourself in the video below:

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Wrap-up: Rover at Mobile World Congress

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What a week! Rover and I happily presented every single day at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona and traveled between both locations: WIPJam at Fira MontjuĂŻc next to the beautiful Magic Fountain, and App Planet at Fira Gran Via – the spacious, new conference center. No matter if on Intel’s GeekBench, during the Intel Innovators Panel, on exhibit at App Planet, or on the carpet – Rover was always surrounded by an amazed crowd of people. See yourself in the picture album below.

Thank you, Intel and developer relations team, for giving me plenty of opportunities to present and network!

Rover at Mobile World Congress gets interviews and attracts crowds of people.
Rover during a demo at Intel’s WIPJam IoT Hackathon at Mobile World Congress.
Rover at Mobile World Congress attracting crowds of people.
Rover at Mobile World Congress attracting crowd of people.
Rover at Mobile World Congress attracting crowd of people.
Suit up! Men in black and Rover at Mobile World Congress.
Rover at Mobile World Congress attracting crowd of people.
Rover at Mobile World Congress attracting a couple
Rover on Intel’s WIPJam GeekBench at Mobile World Congress
Rover at Mobile World Congress made a friend with cool glasses.
Look! It’s a robot
Rover at Mobile World Congress attracting crowds of people.
Rover befriends Intel Android at Mobile World Congress.
Rover charging up and looking awesome on a table at Mobile World Congress.
The folks from the famous Cyanogen mod checking out Rover at Mobile World Congress.
Rover gets an interview from Nicole Scott of MobileGeeks.
Rover at Mobile World Congress attracting crowds of people.
Rover making friends at Mobile World Congress.
Rover making friends at Mobile World Congress.
Rover making friends at Mobile World Congress.
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Rover – LEGO self driving car at Mobile World Congress

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Rover

Intel has generously invited us to showcase our award-winning autonomous intelligent sensing robot at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Join us for a presentation in the session: “Innovator Talks: Emerging Tech from the Intel Developer Community” on Monday 3pm – 4pm in Hall M5 at Fira Montjuic, Room 6 – Level 3 (see also: http://sched.co/1gnrrKR).

For a brief overview of the platform you can check out the video below and our contest entry for the Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge 2013.

Rover is an interactive, autonomous mobile robot platform, capable of exploring and mapping unknown environments. The platform consists of a LEGO EV3 motorized base, a Core i7 laptop for its compute power and the Intel Interactive Gesture camera with a depth sensor.

Utilizing the depth-camera, the platform is able to sense its environment and navigate autonomously and collision-free in unknown surroundings like a self-driving car. Furthermore the robot detects people, recognizes voice and gestures and interacts via speech with the user in front of the robot.

Further opportunities to see the robot in action:

  • Monday 9:00-12:00 at Intel’s WIPJam GeekBench in Hall M5 at Fira Montjuic
  • Monday 12:00-18:00 at the WIPJam IoT Hackathon
  • Tuesday 9:00-12:00 at Intel’s WIPJam GeekBench
  • Tuesday 12:00-18:00 at the WIPJam IoT Hackathon
  • Wednesday 15:00-16:00 at Intel’s WIPJam GeekBench
  • Thursday 13:30-15:00 at the Hackathon Awards in the Auditorium in Hall 8.0 Gran Via

Outside of these slots you might also encounter the robot exploring the show floor at MWC. 🙂

We appreciate this opportunity. Thank you, Intel!