Now that we have recovered from organizing the RoHOW, it is time to look back and review the workshop.

On sunday, the RowHOW was open to the general public. During the day, we had several hundred visitors who watched not only the friendly matches but also several popular science talks. All in all, the day was a huge success.

The schedule alternated between talks and matches, which was very well received by the visitors. By playing halves of the SPL (Standard Platform League) matches during the half-time break of the Humanoid Kid-Sized League matches and vice versa, we were able to continously show gameplay and illustrate the differences between those leagues. At the end of the day we even had a special match between the SPL HULKs and our Humanoid Kid-Sized robots.

Among the visitors were many small children. While we could not really satisfy the young children with the scientific talks, they instead had the opportunity to steer a robot with an Xbox controller. A feat some 4-year-olds managed to do much better than their parents.

Beside the inspiring discussions with our guest teams, we were especially excited about the cooperation with the HULKs of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), a team that, like ours, is completely organized by students. They hosted the RoHOW together with us and provided much of the organisation to get the location at the TUHH. We wish to thank the HULKs for joining us in making the RoHOW possible. At this scale, we wouldn’t have been able to accomplish it alone. We look forward to the opportunity of future collaboration on other projects.