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ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 9 – Towards a theory of intelligence
Fabio Bonsignorio
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 ...
Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel
Podcast team
04 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (28:48)In this episode, we talk to Justin Werfel from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University about their latest paper published in Science o...
The intersection of engineering and neuroscience: Dan Bacher on BrainGate and assistive technologies
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
01 Apr 2014
Dan Bacher has always been fascinated by two things: electrical engineering and neuroscience. While these interests may seem divergent, the synthesis of them led him to Brown University’s BrainGate ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Nikolaos Mavridis “Robots, language, and social networks”
Nathan Labhart
27 Mar 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
The lecture starts with a short introduction to the Interactive Robots and Media Lab and the United Arab Emirates. Then, it continues by exploring so...
Finding perfection in the imperfect: Applying Darwinian neuro-evolution to robotics
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
25 Mar 2014
When it comes to complex tasks like building a house, many people with different skills work together to accomplish a single, larger goal. Instead of trying to create a perfect robot capable of buildi...
PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem
Andra Keay
24 Mar 2014
Ever since Apple bought Prime Sense, roboticists have been asking what’s going to fill the gap. Robots need to know where they are and what’s around them. The Carmine, and the unveiled but undeliv...
Self-contained soft-bodied robotic fish
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
19 Mar 2014
What looks like a fish, swims like a fish but isn’t a fish? The latest in soft-bodied robots created by team of engineers of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at th...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session
Fabio Bonsignorio
18 Mar 2014
Lecture 8-II: Education and Industry Session
This lecture hosted by Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, is about higher education and industrial impact of the ...
Machine consciousness: Fact or fiction?
Igor Aleksander and Footnote
10 Mar 2014
My workday is over. What do I want to do now? I picture calling my wife to suggest dinner at that nice Italian restaurant and imagine the taste of gnocchi quattro formaggi. Then I remember promising ...
Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
10 Mar 2014
Photo by Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
A paper in Nature Communications earlier this year reports on "bio-bots". These tiny machines inspired by sperm, are ...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-I – Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition
Fabio Bonsignorio
10 Mar 2014
Lecture 8-I: Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition
In this lecture, hosted at the University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, I show how it is possible to ground ‘understanding...
The gateway to advanced neuroprosthetics: Jessica Feldman talks BrainGate and BCI
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
07 Mar 2014
If the human brain is considered a computer, what does that mean for science and our lives? Could we repair damaged areas, replace damaged parts, or even upgrade our own minds? It might sound like lit...
Engineers build brain-controlled music player
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
04 Mar 2014
Imagine if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri and his team of researchers from the Department of Systems and Control Engineering and th...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 4): Interview with Raffaello D’Andrea
Florian Röhrbein
28 Feb 2014
In this 4th interview of our four-part ECHORD series, conducted last June, Sascha Griffiths from TUM talks to Raffaello D'Andrea, Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich and technical c...
ShanghAI Lectures: Serge Kernbach “Collective and Modular Robotics: Fundamentials and Frontiers”
Nathan Labhart
27 Feb 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-02
Collective systems play very important role on Earth, and we encounter them in all sizes, scales and forms; in biological and technological areas; in...
Using geometry to help robots map their environment
Autonomous Robots Blog
26 Feb 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
To get around unknown environments, most robots will need to build maps. To help the...
From disembodied bytes to robots that think and act like humans
Colin Allen and Footnote
25 Feb 2014
When IBM’s Watson supercomputer triumphed over two top Jeopardy champions in February 2011, the media buzzed with talk of artificial intelligence (AI), just as it had fourteen years earlier wh...
Why intelligence requires both body and brain
Colin Allen and Footnote
18 Feb 2014
Western philosophy has traditionally separated mind from matter and brain from body. In recent years, however, cognitive scientists have turned the assumption on its head that we can study the mind b...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 4 – Evolution: Cognition from scratch
Fabio Bonsignorio
10 Feb 2014
This week we publish the fourth of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub — we will release a new lecture from this series every Monday until the series is complete. Please use the comments ...
Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino
Per Sjöborg
07 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (33:13)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 3: Cognition and embodiment
Fabio Bonsignorio
03 Feb 2014
This week we publish the third of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub — we will release a new lecture from this series every Monday until the series is complete. Please use the comments s...
How biotech might pool the power of the human brain – with Proteo.me CEO Ivo Georgiev
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
22 Jan 2014
Artificial intelligence has it’s advantages. Systematically, over decades of research and development, AI has come to dominate human intelligence in a number of specific and often limited tasks. Yet...
Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
14 Jan 2014
Photo credit: Image Agency
Why do people who use Facebook spend so much of their online time there? Why do people want to share, to comment?
Patrick Levy Rosenthal asked himself these answers and wa...
Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years
Hallie Siegel
13 Jan 2014
Photo credit: Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich
Over the next four years, the Swiss will invest almost CHF30 million to build a new National Centre of Competence in Research for digital fabrication i...
New-tech grippers hit the market
Frank Tobe
13 Jan 2014
Empire Robotics, a Boston-based start-up, is beginning to sell their VERSABALL kits, a new-tech jamming gripper enabling adaptive gripping operations with a single inexpensive tool.
Filled with a g...
Interdisciplinary Teams, with Giulio Sandini
Per Sjöborg
10 Jan 2014
Link to audio file (41:58)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Giulio Sandini, director of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)...
Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
Hallie Siegel
07 Dec 2013
Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive, leasable, and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems, which currently...
Beginner’s guide to the humanoid robot challenge (DRC)
Andra Keay
03 Dec 2013
The first real world trial in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) will be held on December 20-21 2013 at Homestead Freeway in Florida. Yes, it's open to the public. Anyone can come along and watch huma...
Noisy imitation speeds up group learning
Alan Winfield
03 Dec 2013
Broadly speaking there are two kinds of learning: individual learning and social learning. Individual learning means learning something entirely on your own, without reference to anyone else who might...
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...
Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)
Mark Stephen Meadows
20 Nov 2013
This article returns to the thread of the last few months by looking at how robots can measure our emotions and body language.
My aunt, a Tennessee tobacco grower, used to remind me that God gave m...
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...
Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t
Adrien Briod
30 Oct 2013
Gimball is a flying robot that survives collisions. It weighs just 370g for 34cm in diameter. Photo credit: A. Herzog, EPFL.
Generally, flying robots are programmed to avoid obstacles, which is far ...
UBR-1 robot from Unbounded Robotics revolutionizes affordable mobile manipulation | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
21 Oct 2013
Why Affordable Mobile Manipulation Matters
Why could UBR-1 be so revolutionary for robotics right now? Really, it's the general area of mobile manipulation that has a huge amount of potential for t...
Unbounded Robotics launch affordable, all-purpose UBR-1
Andra Keay
21 Oct 2013
Unbounded Robotics today launched UBR-1, a robot that has many of us very excited. UBR is the first robot with intelligence, manipulation and mobility for below $50k. While UBR definitely resembles a ...
25 women in robotics you need to know about (2013)
In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, we've compiled a short list of some women in robotics that everyone should know about. There are so many many more that we're already looking forward to featuring t...
