Kerstin's team at the University of Hertfordshire and their work on the Robot House scenarios are featured in this week's New Scientist.
The balancing platform prototype from WRUT won first place in the freestyle category of the recent RobotChallenge in Vienna.
http://www.robotchallenge.org/en/rueckschau/2009/
You can find an earlier video of COSMOS in action here.
LIREC is a collaboration between six universities, two research institutes and two companies spread across 7 European countries.
Universities:
Queen Mary University London (UK) The University of Hertfordshire (UK) Heriot-Watt University (UK) Otto-Friedrich – Universitat Bamberg (Germany)