Our video entitled “Demonstrating Maori Haka with Kinect and Nao Robots” has received a Best-Video-Award at the HRI2012 conference. Congratulations to the team! The trophy is a gold painted KeepOn robot!

University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Our video entitled “Demonstrating Maori Haka with Kinect and Nao Robots” has received a Best-Video-Award at the HRI2012 conference. Congratulations to the team! The trophy is a gold painted KeepOn robot!
Our Facetree software has been awarded third prize at the RootsTech Developer Challenge. Ellie Rasmus, lead developer, presented the software at the RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City and received the honour, including a cash prize of 1500 USD. We are very proud and excited about winning this award.
Today we experienced two large aftershocks. The university was evacuated and remains closed until at least tomorrow. I will be out of the office. We are all safe at home.
I am visiting Singapore to learn about the CUTE lab, but also to meet with Martin Saerbeck. He showed me around this amazing city, including the ship in the sky. From up there, I took some panoramas with my iPhone.