the consortium also organizes outreach activities and events such as the "planetary rover symposium", held in 2009 at the espoo campus at the aalto university in finland, where leading space robotics scientists gave presentations on history, status and technologies of planetary robotics. invited guest speakers included mr. alexei bogatchev (russia), mr. gianfranco visentin (esa), dr. richard volpe (jpl), and dr. juha röning (university of oulu).