TYOC#47/52: CEBIT
The Year of CoCoRo 47/52: In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo at the CEBIT in Hannover, Germany. This is Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. First we thought we might be too far off-topic and all the latest news on flatscreen TVs, smartphones and gaming consoles will just overshadow our exhibition. We were very wrong: We had the smallest booth and were overrun with thousands of people throughout the week. TV teams visited us and radio interviews followed each other. Our own internal estimate concluded that we might have had the highest rate of visitors per square meter in the whole fair. It is not easy to bring a swarm of underwater robots into such a fair and to show them running in live experiments. But we managed to do it and it was a huge thing for us, we still talk about those days often. Thanks to our enduring team members and also to all the people who visited us. The project gained a lot of motivation from the public interest we felt there.