Robot Dance Party: Major Robotics Conference Coming to South Korea

Jumping robots, walking robots, flying robots, and much more at IROS 2016

04 Oct 2016

Image: IROS 2016

Get ready: one of the world’s biggest robot research conferences, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), is coming South Korea next week. The conference will be held at the Daejeon Convention Center 9-14 October 2016. Here’s a taste of what’s to come. And for our full coverage, head over to our robotics blog, Automaton.

Celia Gorman

Robot Dance Party: Major Robotics Conference Coming to South Korea

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