Rhine Robotics Paper Club

Meet in person to present and discuss the latest research in robotics — Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf and beyond. Participation is free.

Join us on Discord → See upcoming meetings

The calendar

Meetings

Upcoming

Previous meetings

No meetings yet — the first one is coming up.

What is a paper club?

A journal club for people who build robots

A paper club (or journal club) is a meeting where participants review interesting publications in a particular field. We agree on the papers beforehand and decide who will present them, followed by Q&A and open discussion.

It’s a great opportunity to gain in-depth technical knowledge, stay up to date with the field, meet people working on similar problems, and develop presentation skills. Meetings are in person and rotate around the Rhine region.

Continue the conversation

Join us on Discord

The club is organised on Discord. That's where meetings are announced and the reading list takes shape.

  • Suggest papers you'd like to discuss
  • Endorse other people's suggestions
  • Volunteer to present — including your own research
discord.gg/WNvN9YQQh →
QR code linking to the Discord invite

The format

How a meeting works

  1. 01

    Pick the papers

    Papers are suggested and endorsed on Discord. One to three get selected per meeting.

  2. 02

    Volunteer to present

    Each paper gets a presenter who walks everyone through the key ideas, methods and results.

  3. 03

    Discuss together

    Every talk is followed by Q&A and an open discussion. Reading the papers beforehand is encouraged but not required.

Anything robotics is welcome

  1. 01Robot learning
  2. 02Sim-to-real
  3. 03Perception
  4. 04Planning and Control
  5. 05Data management
  6. 06Deployments
  7. 07Hardware and Compute
  8. 08Robotics foundations

The organiser

About me

Hi, I’m Gui and I’m pleased to manage this event with the kind support of the organizations below. My main interests are robot learning (reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, world models, etc.) and robot fleet deployment and management. Personally, I work on robotics for agriculture at Bayer Crop Science. Feel free to connect with me on Discord or LinkedIn.

With the support of: