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ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Resilient Machines”
Nathan Labhart
12 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-19
If the body plays a central role in intelligence, as a roboticist, how do we choose an appropriate body for our robot? Evolutionary robotics allows u...
ShanghAI Lectures: Hisato Kobayashi “AI-ish approach for complicated robot control”
Nathan Labhart
05 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
If we try to describe any kinds of robot by mathematical models, they must be very complicated equations. Even, such robotic systems are categorized ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”
Nathan Labhart
28 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
"It has increasingly been realized that some of the key characteristics underlying real-world complex dynamical systems (such as economical, financia...
ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Compliant Body as a Source of Intelligence”
Nathan Labhart
21 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05
Animals and Humans utilize their compliance: muscular system and soft skin. The compliance plays an important role to exhibit intelligent behavior. T...
ShanghAI Lectures: SAYA/Hiroshi Kobayashi “Hello, my name is SAYA”
Nathan Labhart
14 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05
In this guest lecture, SAYA, the robotic teacher from Japan, introduces herself and talks about the Tokyo University of Science, where she was const...
ShanghAI Lectures: Brian David Johnson “Brain Machines: Robots, Free Will and Science Fiction Prototypes”
Nathan Labhart
08 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-10-29
How can science fiction help prototype emerging science theory and experimentation? Expanding on the framework of consumer experience architecture, t...
ShanghAI Lectures: Auke Ijspeert “Controlling the Locomotion of Robots Using Central Pattern Generator Models”
Nathan Labhart
01 Nov 2013
Animal locomotion control is in a large part based on central pattern generators (CPGs), which are neural networks capable of producing complex rhythmic patterns while being activated and modulated by...
ShanghAI Lectures: Bernard Horan “Mixing real and virtual worlds in education”
Nathan Labhart
24 Oct 2013
Bernard Horan presents an overview of a trial undertaken at the University of Essex in the use of a mixed-reality teaching environment. The lecture includes a summary of the motivations for mixed real...
ShanghAI Lectures: Lutz Jäncke “On the neuropsychology of avatars”
Nathan Labhart
17 Oct 2013
The ShanghAI lectures have brought us a treasure trove of guest lectures by experts in robotics. You can find the whole series from 2012 here. Now, we're bringing you the guest lectures you haven't ye...
Pioneers kickstarts the start-up scene with a hands-on celebration of innovation
Hallie Siegel
17 Oct 2013
Andreas Tschas (far left) and Juergen Furian (far right) present a cheque to the 2012 Startup Challenge winner Poikos (centre). Photo credit: Heisenberg Media.
When founders Andreas Tschas and Juerge...
Breaking it down with the DanceBot: Getting started with electronics
Raymond Oung
12 Oct 2013
The MP3 DanceBot is a little robot that dances to the beat of your music. It’s a project that began in the summer of 2011 to introduce students to the basics of electronics and robotics. Students le...
Robotics heavyweights keep it entertaining at 2013 Northeast Robotics Colloquium
Richard Moore and Kirstin Hagelskjær Petersen
09 Oct 2013
Prof. Conor Walsh (left) and Dr. Panagiotis Polygerinos (right) discuss a soft robotic glove designed for hand rehabilitation. Photo credit: Kirstin Hagelskjær Petersen.
The 2nd annual Northeast Ro...
Getting Started in Robotics, with Erin Kennedy
Sabine Hauert
04 Oct 2013
Link to audio file (22:28)
In this episode, Sabine Hauert talks with Erin Kennedy at the Open Hardware Summit at MIT. Kennedy is famously know as RobotGrrl, the self-made roboticist and proud maker o...
Classroom robotics: Motivating independent learning and discovery
Sharon Marzouk
03 Oct 2013
Sharon Marzouk with a class of excited youngsters and their Thymio-based creations.
Sharon has found classroom robotics is an excellent motivator for independent learning and discovery: “The way I ...
Maker Faire European Edition kicks off in Rome
Robohub Editors
02 Oct 2013
Europe's first Maker Faire will be held in Rome's Palazzo dei Congressi from October 3-6. Billing itself as a "four-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness," Make...
Classroom robots: A great way to get young people started
David Peins
02 Oct 2013
"The Project" - David Peins' first classroom robot.
“How did you get started in robotics?” is a question that people often ask when they meet me and I am surrounded by my robots. This past week...
Robohub turns one!
Hallie Siegel
01 Oct 2013
Anniversaries have a way of inspiring even the most cynical of us to ask ourselves big existential questions: "Why are we here?", "What do we stand for?" and "What's the meaning of all this anyway?" S...
Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry, improve safety for inspectors
Students take a research tour with Damen ship repairs in Rotterdam.
A team of students from ETH Zurich and ZHdK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of cond...
Mentors of Steel: The role of mentoring in robotics education
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team located in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to draw more young women into engineering. We've already heard what it's like to be part of an all-girls ro...
Getting into the driver’s seat: Girls of Steel tell us how they got hooked on robotics
Mike Hamer and Lynn Urbina
26 Sep 2013
Girls of Steel at the 2013 FIRST Championships. Photo credit: Walt Urbina.
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team located in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to draw more young women into e...
My pathway to robotics
Jaidyn Edwards
25 Sep 2013
My name is Jaidyn Edwards. I am eighteen years old and live in South Australia. For me, being interested in robotics was part of an evolutionary process built upon a few core interests I had as a chil...
Drones for Schools
Matthew Schroyer
24 Sep 2013
To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn't originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science ed...
Getting started in robotics, an educational concern
Claude Baumann
23 Sep 2013
I am profoundly convinced that if we are able to preserve the natural curiosity of early childhood in growing up individuals, without fail they will develop a durable attraction to science, technology...
Origami Robots, with Nick Kohut
Matthew Schroyer
20 Sep 2013
Link to audio file (24:09)
In this episode Matthew Schroyer speaks with Nick Kohut, CEO of Dash Robotics, about their foldable hexapod robot and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign to get them into the...
It’s time to think about robotic Christmas gifts
Frank Tobe
19 Sep 2013
... Canadian EZ-Robot is the first to the gate with 2013 Christmas gifts: 3 modular robot kits and a software interface using simple “drag and drop” methods to make teaching the robot behaviors an...
Call for papers: IROS workshop on science communication
Sabine Hauert
18 Sep 2013
Understanding Robotics and Public Opinion:
Best Practices in Public Science Communication and Online Dissemination
IROS Workshop 2013 in Tokyo, Japan
November 7, 9am – 12:30pm
Submission deadl...
Matthew Schroyer on “What is the best way to get a robotics education today?”
Matthew Schroyer
16 Sep 2013
A quality learning experience centered on robotics is hard to find for many students who lack STEM resources through their own schools. Although new science standards hope to improve the situation, K-...
Terry Fong on “What do you look for when hiring a roboticist?”
Terry Fong
15 Sep 2013
We look for good people from all over the world who have had some formal education in robotics theory, particularly in the basics of kinematics, perception, and cognition. Many universities offer cour...
Mark Tilden on “What is the best way to get a robotics education today?”
Mark Tilden
15 Sep 2013
In the past, a robotics education started with any inspiration that filtered through the sparse media of the time. Imagine a dull illness during a bland winter, black and white TV on a fuzzy channel, ...
Theresa Richards on “What’s the best way to get a robotics education today?”
Theresa Richards
15 Sep 2013
At the high school or middle school level there is no single best way for students to get a robotics education: there are many ways, and each way reaches the students differently. The easiest way is f...
What is the best way to get a robotics education today? What do you look for when hiring?
RBI Editors
15 Sep 2013
After a (relatively) quiet August, Rohobub is gearing up again this September as everyone in the robotics community heads back to work and school.
This month, as part of our soon-to-launch focus se...
Robohub focus on robotics education
Mike Hamer
15 Sep 2013
Since posting the call for contributions in August, 2013, I was contacted by many enthusiastic and inspiring individuals who were interested in sharing their experience with budding roboticists.
...
Geek immersion: Campus Party London packs a ton of tech fun into five days
Jana Witt
11 Sep 2013
Campus Party events pride themselves in bringing together bright and like-minded people from all over the world, offering them an opportunity to hear from some of the greats in the worlds of the gamin...
Photo essay: VEX’s Paul McKnight hosts robotics competition @ Campus Party EU
Jana Witt
10 Sep 2013
At a robotics workshop Friday September 6th at Campus Party EU in London, VEX Robotic's Paul McKnight elaborated how robotics platforms and toolkits could be used in schools and universities to enhanc...
Travis Deyle on “Do robots need heads?”
Travis Deyle
15 Aug 2013
The obvious answer to this question is "No: there are lots of robots without heads." It's not even clear that social robots necessarily require a head, as even mundane robots like the Roomba are anthr...
ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”
Nathan Labhart
14 Aug 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which however c...
