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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”
Nathan Labhart
06 May 2013
This concludes the ShanghAI Lecture series of 2012. After a wrap-up of the class, we announce the winners of the EmbedIT and NAO competitions and end with an outlook of the future of the ShanghAI Lect...
We Robot Conference: 2. Law as algorithm
Kate Darling
03 May 2013
On April 8-9, Stanford Law School held the second annual robotics and law conference, We Robot. This year’s event focused on near-term policy issues in robotics and featured panels and papers by sch...
We Robot Conference: 1. Intellectual property
Kate Darling
30 Apr 2013
On April 8-9, Stanford Law School held the second annual robotics and law conference, We Robot. This year’s event focused on near-term policy issues in robotics and featured panels and papers by sch...
Smart vehicles are here: Can government keep pace? | NY Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference
CIS Blog
29 Apr 2013
The pressures are building for safer and smarter vehicles on our roads, raising questions about the national, state and local policies that will emerge. Several states are already early adopters of le...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”
Nathan Labhart
25 Apr 2013
In the 9th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, we look at ontogenetic development as Rolf Pfeifer talks about the path from locomotion to cognition. This is followed by two guest lectures: The first ...
Ryan Calo on spyware for your brain
CIS Blog
18 Apr 2013
Ryan Calo discusses how researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a proof of concept for using commercially available brain-computer interfaces to discover private facts about today's g...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 8 “Where is human memory?”
Nathan Labhart
16 Apr 2013
In this 8th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer looks into differences between human and computer memory and shows several types of “memories”. In the first guest lecture, Vera Zabot...
We Robot: Live coverage on robotics and the law
Robohub Editors
06 Apr 2013
Updated April 9, 2013 | Check this post for our live coverage of the We Robot conference happening April 8-9 at Stanford Law School....
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from interaction”
Nathan Labhart
06 Apr 2013
In the 7th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer talks about collective intelligence. Examples include ants that find the shortest path to a food source, robots that clean up, and birds th...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 6 “Evolution: Cognition from scratch”
Nathan Labhart
30 Mar 2013
In this sixth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer introduces the topic “Artificial Evolution” and gives examples of evolutionary processes in artificial intelligence. The first guest...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”
Nathan Labhart
24 Mar 2013
This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, Barry Trimmer (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about so...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”
Nathan Labhart
18 Mar 2013
This is the fourth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, where Rolf Pfeifer starts introducing a set of “Design Principles” for intelligent systems, as outlined in the book “How the Body Shapes t...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”
Nathan Labhart
09 Mar 2013
In this lecture Rolf Pfeifer presents some first steps toward a “theory of intelligence”., followed by guest lectures by Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College, Greece) on computers and cognition, a...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”
Nathan Labhart
01 Mar 2013
In this 2nd part of the ShanghAI Lectures, Rolf Pfeifer looks at the paradigm “Cognition as Computation”, show its successes and failures and justifies the need for an embodied perspective. Follo...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 1 “Intelligence – An eternal conundrum”
Nathan Labhart
22 Feb 2013
In this first part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer gives an overview of the content and scope of the project, discusses the meaning of “Intelligence”, the Turing Test, and IQ....
TED talk with Davide Scaramuzza on visual control of MAVs
Sabine Hauert
29 Nov 2012
Davide Scaramuzza leads the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and is Adjunct Faculty at ETH Zurich....
Microlecture: How to engineer a dog
Markus Waibel
26 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igNZiVtbxU
The Legged Robotics Team at ETH Zurich's Autonomous Systems Lab is doing research to build fast, versatile, and efficient quadrupedal robots. Th...
Nikolaus Correll at TEDx Front Range 2012
John Payne
16 Jun 2012
University of Colorado Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll, speaking at TEDx Front Range earlier this year, outlined his vision for transforming agriculture through robotic cultivation.
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