This volume contains the accepted papers presented during the International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT Conference 2009, held in La Fert e-Bernard, France, May 21-23, 2009. Today, robots are indispensable tools for ?exible, automated manufacturing in many areas of industry as well as for the execution of sophisticated or d- gerous tasks in the nuclear industry, in medicine and in space technology, and last but not least, they are being increasingly used in everyday life. To further encourage researchin this area, the EUROBOT Conferences have been set up. They aim to gather researchersand developersfromacademic ?elds and industries worldwide to explore the state of the art. This conference is - companiedbythe EUROBOTContestFinals,aninternationalamateur robotics contest open to teams of young people. During the ?nals in 2009, teams from 25 countries came together not only to compete, but also to exchange knowledge and ideas and to learn from each other. In addition to the paper and poster presentations, there were two invited talks: - Raja Chatila, Director of the LAAS - CNRS, Toulouse, France whose talk was about "Cognitive Robots" - V eronigue Raoul, EUROBOT Association, France whose talk was about "EUROBOT" Organizing a conference is a task that requires the collaboration of many p- ple. We personally would like to warmly thank all members of the EUROBOT Conference2009programcommittee; without their help and dedicationit would not have been possible to produce these proceedings.

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Walk-Startup of a Two-Legged Walking Mechanism.- Control Methodologies for Endoscope Navigation in Robotized Laparoscopic Surgery.- Fast Object Registration and Robotic Bin Picking.- What Role for Emotions in Cooperating Robots? - The Case of RH3-Y.- A Mobile Robot for Small Object Handling.- Real-Time Door Detection Based on AdaBoost Learning Algorithm.- DC Motor Drive for Small Autonomous Robots with Educational and Research Purpose.- A Multi-axis Control Board Implemented via an FPGA.- Robot Localisation in Known Environment Using Monte Carlo Localisation.- Detecting Scene Elements Using Maximally Stable Colour Regions.- Ultrasonic Localization of Mobile Robot Using Active Beacons and Code Correlation.- Calibration Methods for a 3D Triangulation Based Camera.- Camera-Based Control for Industrial Robots Using OpenCV Libraries.- Generating Complex Movements of Humanoid Robots by Using Primitives.