We are currently on the 1st Player Summer School on Cognitive Robotics.
Project player is a Middelware for robotics wich implements a large set of tools for implementing and controlling robots. It also can be interface with the simulators stage(2D) and gazebo (3D). All the work done with the simulators can be translated unchanged to the real platforms.
You can find more information about project player in:
http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/
we will post all the work done here when we come back