May 21st (Wednesday) 15:00 – 20:00 Welcome and registration German teams

15:00 – 20:00 Homologation German teams

15:00 – 22:00 Welcome and registration to International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics

15:00 – 22:00 Welcome of the independent international team

May22nd 08:30 – 09:30 Official opening of EUROBOT 2008, welcoming speech

(Thursday, bank holiday 08:30 – 18:00 Welcome and registration International teams (NOC) in Germany Corpus Christi) 09:30 – 18:00 EUROBOT Conference 2008, International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics /index.php?id=27

09:30 – 10:30 Invited talk on Humanoid Robot Research and Its Application, Professor Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University, Japan

09:30 – 18:30 Display of “nanoTruck” http://www.nanotruck.de/

10:00 – 13:00 Robot demonstrations FIRST LEGO League http://www.firstlegoleague.org/hot/

09:00 – 22:00 Homologation International teams

13:00 – 14:00 Invited talk on The ExoMars mission - was Mars ever a habitable planet?, Prof. Dr. Tilman Spohn, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk on nanoTruck - Hightech aus dem Nanokosmos: Die BMBF-Kommunikationsinitiative zur Nanotechnologie stellt sich vor

14:00 -15:00 EUROBOT Junior presentation

14:00 – 17:00 robot demonstrations Robocup http://www.robocup.org/

17:00 – 18:30 EUROBOT German national championship /eng/nationalcups.php

17:00 – 18:00 Invited talk on The next European Mission to Mars, EXOMARS, Dr. Peter Hofmann, Kayser-Threde GmbH

May 23 ^rd (Friday) 09:00 – 18:00 EUROBOT Conference 2008, International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics

10:00 – 18:00 Three qualification rounds EUROBOT /

10:00 – 13:00 robot demonstrations ELROB www.elrob.org

11:00 – 12:00 Invited talk on Rahmenbedingungen für automatisiertes Fahren. Das Auto als Infrastrukturtäger für das Verkehrsmanagement?, Fritjof Mietsch

13:00 – 14:00 Invited talk on Robotic exploration of planetary Surfaces - Rover technologies developed for Space exploration, Dipl.-Ing. Sabine Klinkner, von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH

14:00 – 17:00 robot demonstrations DARPA Grand Challenge

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp

15:00 – 16:00 Invited talk on Automation and Robotics in the German Space Program – Unmanned on-orbit servicing (OOS) and novel concepts from LEO to GEO, Bernd Sommer , DLR

17:00 – 18:00 Invited talk on EUROBOT, THE EVA ROBOTIC ASSISTANT: SYSTEM OVERVIEW, TESTS RESULTS & OUTLOOK, Frederic Didot, European Space Agency http://www.esa.int/esaHS/education.html

18:00 General Assembly EUROBOT

May 24th(Saturday) 09:00 – 12:30 Two qualification rounds EUROBOT /

09:00 – 18:00 EUROBOT Conference 2008, International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics

11:00 – 12:00 Invited talk on Human-Centered Robotics, Professor Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA

12:00 – 13:00 Invited talk on What can we learn from Mars?, Dr. Yasmin A. Walter, Frankfurt University / ERAC, Germany

13:00 – 14:00 Invited talk on New Man-Machine Interaction concepts: Virtual Reality meets Robotics, Professor Jürgen Roßmann, RWTH Aachen, Germany

14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk on Robotic Exploration of Planetary Surfaces - Science Objectives, Instrumentation, and Results from the Mössbauer Spectrometers on the Mars-Exploration Rovers, Dr. Goestar Klingelhöfer, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

15:00 – 16:00 Quarter Finals and Semi Finals EUROBOT

16:00 – 16:30 Finals Eurobot Germany (1st - 2nd Place)

16:30 – 17:00 Finals Eurobot (2 matches)

17:00 – 17:30 Prize ceremony

18:00 – 22:30 Party with fireworks

May 25 ^th (Sunday) 09:00 – 13:00 Transportation of teams to town, station or airport