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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....

Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters

Markus Waibel 21 Feb 2013

Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...

3’600-strong underwater robot sensor network returns 1’000’000th measurement, has scientists craving for more

Markus Waibel 05 Feb 2013

The Argo project, which has deployed a network of more than 3'600 robots covering all of the world's oceans, has returned it's 1'000'000th measurement....

Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains feedback control and talks about the coming Machine Revolution

Markus Waibel 04 Feb 2013

During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D'Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group's impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing, an...

Real-time heart beat simulator visualizes pulsation and disease on a Laptop PC

DigInfo TV 05 Nov 2012

This simulator can represent the complex pulsation of the heart. It is being developed by a group including members from National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center and Riken. Until n...

The new Honda ASIMO

Ioannis K. Erripis 20 Nov 2011

The most famous humanoid robot, Honda’s ASIMO has a new version. A few days ago Honda presented a more advanced model and performed a small display of its new capabilities. Meanwhile the robotics se...