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The Frontiers of Machine Learning: Live webcast

  31 Jan 2017
The webcast will take place on today from 9am-5:30pm EST and February 1st from 9am-5pm EST. Webcast participants are encouraged to submit questions for the presenters by e-mailing Michelle Schwalbe a...

Catalia Health uses social robots to improve health outcomes

and   17 Jan 2017
Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather th...

Dehyping robotics: Sabine Hauert at TEDx Berlin

  13 Dec 2016
Robohub President Sabine Hauert gave an insightful talk at TEDx Berlin about what we try and do here at Robohub: ensuring truthful, fair, balanced robotics information is being shared. As our loyal re...

Robotic assistants: Science meets fiction, with Carme Torras

In this video lecture Carme Torras, Research Professor at the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) looks at the process of working on assistive robots employed as helpers to disabled or elderly...

The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars

  30 Dec 2015
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. ...

Simple robots, complex behaviors: A control systems perspective on Braitenberg Vehicles

  03 Dec 2015
In this lecture series, controls expert Brian Douglas walks you through key concepts in control system theory. Focused on making control theory accessible and intuitive, this series is for anyone who ...

Push, pull, nudge: The control challenge of non-prehensile robotic manipulation

  29 Sep 2015
In this new lecture series, controls expert Brian Douglas walks you through key concepts in control system theory. Focused on making control theory accessible and intuitive, this series is for anyo...

WeRobot 2015 Panel 1: Anthropomorphizing robots, with Kate Darling

As we increasingly create spaces where robotic technology interacts with humans, our tendency to project lifelike qualities onto robots raises questions around use and policy. In this We Robot 2015 pa...

Complete force control in constrained under-actuated mechanical systems: Lecture by Francesco Nori

In this video lecture, Franceso Nori from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) walks us through the progress that's been made in humanoid robots in recent years. For example, the humanoids at ...

Peter Asaro: Challenges and approaches to developing policy for robots

  02 Apr 2015
As part of the Center for Information Technology Policy (CIPT) Luncheon speaker series, Peter Asaro gives a talk on developing policy for robots. ...

The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio

In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not just...

ShanghAI Lectures: Inman Harvey “Metaphorical homunculi: we don’t really have little men inside our heads”

  11 Sep 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Inman Harvey from the University of Sussex, UK, talks about Representation and its issues....

ShanghAI Lectures: Kevin Warwick “AI with biological brains”

  04 Sep 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading, UK, talks about a closed-loop interface between a biological network and a robot, ...

ShanghAI Lectures: Rüdiger Dillmann “Programming by Demonstration”

  21 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Rüdiger Dillmann from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, talks about paradigms for robot learning and the proper...

ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Enhancing Autonomy and Safety of Assistive Robots”

  14 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Weidong Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, talks about the design of assistive robots, especially a robotic whe...

ShanghAI Lectures: Barbara Webb “AI – Artificial Insects”

  07 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-08 In this guest lecture, Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, talks about using robots to model biology, human and insect brains, a...

ShanghAI Lectures: Dustin Li “Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot”

  31 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-01 In this guest lecture, Dustin Li from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China, talks about the design of a robot that autonomously d...

ShanghAI Lectures: Thierry Bücheler “Latest Insights on Human Collective Intelligence”

  24 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-24 In this guest lecture, Thierry Bücheler from the AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland, talks about collective intelligence, quality and critica...

ShanghAI Lectures: Fumiya Iida “Soft robotics approach toward artificial ontogenetic development”

  17 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17 Artificial ontogenetic development has been nicely demonstrated by many computer simulation studies in the past. There are, however, still a number o...

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior”

  10 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17 In this guest lecture, Josh Bongard from the University of Vermont (USA) and co-author of How the body shapes the way we think (MIT Press), talks ab...

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”

  03 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10 In this guest lecture, Koh Hosoda from Osaka University, Japan, talks about human and humanoid intelligence, movement, and bouncing, and introduces t...

ShanghAI Lectures: Barry Richards and Craig Turnbull “Robotics and Automation Applied to the Aircraft Industry”

  26 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10 In this guest lecture, Craig Turnbull and Barry Richards from Electroimpact talk about robots in aircraft manufacturing....

ShanghAI Lectures: Olivier Michel “Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots”

  19 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10 This presentation introduces Cyberbotics Ltd. with a little bit of history (where it came from), then it presents the Webots software that allows res...

ShanghAI Lectures: Fabio Bonsignorio “Embodied Finance: Embodying Disruptive Innovation in Embodied Cognitive Systems”

  12 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03 In this guest lecture, Fabio Bonsignorio from University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, talks about issues with innovation and robotic startup companie...

ShanghAI Lectures: Claude Patrick Siegenthaler “In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets”

  05 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03 In this guest lecture, Claude Patrick Siegenthaler from Switzerland gives a brief introduction to economics and markets and relates them to intellige...

ShanghAI Lectures: Toshiyuki Nakagaki “How does an amoeba tackle a maze?”

  01 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-27 In this guest lecture, Toshiyuki Nakagaki from Future University Hakodate, Japan, talks about his experiments with true slime mold and its abilities ...

ShanghAI Lectures: Minoru Asada “Cognitive Developmental Robotics”

  22 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20 In this guest lecture, Minoru Asada from Osaka University, Japan, talks about combining developmental psychology, neuroscience, and robotics into “...

30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk

  21 May 2014
Source: University of Zurich Mediadesk Watch Rolf Pfeifer’s farewell lecture at the University of Zurich, broadcasting live on Robohub Friday May 23, 2014 (18:00–19:30 CEST/16:00–17:30 UTC). ...

ShanghAI Lectures: Yukie Nagai “What should robots learn from caregiver-infant interaction?”

  15 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20 In this guest lecture, Yukie Nagai from Osaka University, Japan, talks about teaching infants and robots, attention, and scaffolding....

ShanghAI Lectures: Alan Spreckley “Robotic Automation in Manufacturing”

  08 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-13 This talks provides a summary of the current and future market places, key application areas, history of robotics and future trends....

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 10 – Future Trends

  28 Apr 2014
This week we publish the tenth and last of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub. We have been releasing  a new lecture from this series on Monday for several weeks and this is the last one....

ShanghAI Lectures: Simon Grand “Building Intelligent Companies: Enterpreneurial Management and Design Principles”

  24 Apr 2014
  Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-11-18 In this guest lecture, Simon Grand from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, talks about building intelligent companies....

ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”

  17 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-11-18 Sensorimotor interaction between an agent and its environment seems to be the key ingredient to develop intelligent behaviour. In this talk, the impo...

ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”

  10 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-10-21 In this guest presentation, Patrick van der Smagt talks about biomimetic approaches to robot control, kinematics, grasping, and ways to use the human...

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 9 – Towards a theory of intelligence

  07 Apr 2014
Lecture 9: Towards a theory of intelligence This lecture, which I hosted at the the University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), suggests principles and design guidelines for the development of embodied ...

We Robot 2014 livestream

  04 Apr 2014
Watch the live stream from the We Robot 2014 conference in Miami....





 

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