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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 ...

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...

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....

Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Joystick control

Mike Hamer 04 Jan 2013

This is the second tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series. In this tutorial we will: Talk about the ROS communication hierarchy Setup a joystick to work with ROS ...

Robotic kit for kids

Wolfgang Heller 04 Jan 2013

The Hummingbird robotics kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 10 and up that involve the making of ...

Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Getting started

Mike Hamer 10 Dec 2012

Updated December 17th. In this tutorial (#1) we will: Install ROS, the AR.Drone driver and AR.Drone keyboard controller Fly the AR.Drone using the provided keyboard controller...