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    Getting Started in Robotics, with Erin Kennedy

    Link to audio file (22:28) In this episode, Sabine Hauert talks with Erin Kennedy at the Open Hardware Summit at MIT. Kennedy is famously know as RobotGrrl, the self-made roboticist and proud maker o...
    04 October 2013, by

    Classroom robotics: Motivating independent learning and discovery
    Sharon Marzouk with a class of excited youngsters and their Thymio-based creations. Sharon has found classroom robotics is an excellent motivator for independent learning and discovery: “The way I ...
    03 October 2013, by

    Mentors of Steel: The role of mentoring in robotics education
    The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team located in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to draw more young women into engineering. We've already heard what it's like to be part of an all-girls ro...
    27 September 2013, by , and

    My pathway to robotics
    My name is Jaidyn Edwards. I am eighteen years old and live in South Australia. For me, being interested in robotics was part of an evolutionary process built upon a few core interests I had as a chil...
    25 September 2013, by

    Drones for Schools
    To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn't originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science ed...
    24 September 2013, by

    Getting started in robotics, an educational concern
    I am profoundly convinced that if we are able to preserve the natural curiosity of early childhood in growing up individuals, without fail they will develop a durable attraction to science, technology...
    23 September 2013, by



    Origami Robots, with Nick Kohut

    Link to audio file (24:09) In this episode Matthew Schroyer speaks with Nick Kohut, CEO of Dash Robotics, about their foldable hexapod robot and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign to get them into the...
    20 September 2013, by

    Travis Deyle on “Do robots need heads?”
    The obvious answer to this question is "No: there are lots of robots without heads." It's not even clear that social robots necessarily require a head, as even mundane robots like the Roomba are anthr...
    15 August 2013, by

    SparkFun National Tour
    Following their east and west coast tours late last year, SparkFun has embarked on the ambitious goal of taking their experiential learning nationwide, with 50 stops in 50 states. From the SparkFun...
    12 August 2013, by

    SparkFun Redbot
    http://youtu.be/AGVsV4abajo The ready-made platform (kit) options just keep getting better. Here SparkFun shows off its new Redbot kit, which includes everything you need to put together a basic mo...
    09 August 2013, by

    Drone Journalism, with Matthew Schroyer

    Link to audio file (41:02)In this episode, we speak with Matthew Schroyer, founder of DroneJournalism.org, co-founder of Drones for Good, and developer of the “Drones for Schools” program which te...
    09 August 2013, by

    Calling all do-it-yourselfers: Robohub seeking contributions for focus series on “Getting Started in Robotics”
    In light of the popularity of his AR.Drone tutorials, we have invited Robohub contributor Mike Hamer to act as Guest Editor for our next focus series "Getting Started in Robotics." Like many ch...
    08 August 2013, by

    Why fostering high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship matters to the economy, and what universities can do about it
    For many people, the term “innovation” implies having a great idea, and hoping that somehow it will take off. According to H. Chesbrough, this is clearly insufficient, and in his definition, he is...
    11 July 2013, by and

    Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Handling feedback
    This is the third tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series. In this tutorial we will: Learn about the AR.Drone's state feedback (and how it is handled by ROS) Learn a...
    01 July 2013, by

    We Robot Conference: 6. Manufacturer risk management
    Q: What's the main issue that will keep the general legal counsel of a robotics company up at night? A: Massive tort liability. Maintaining that product liability is the number one issue for robot man...
    29 May 2013, by

    Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU
    Call for Proposals (closes May 27) Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference October 11-13, 2013 NYU School of Law...
    22 May 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”
    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...
    06 May 2013, by

    We Robot Conference: 1. Intellectual property
    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...
    30 April 2013, by

    Rethink Robotics and Aldebaran both launch robots for research, teaching and custom development
    Rethink Robotics just launched a version of their Baxter robot armed with a new SDK providing educators and researchers with almost limitless capabilities at an affordable cost. Using ROS and the new ...
    26 April 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”
    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 ...
    25 April 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 8 “Where is human memory?”
    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...
    16 April 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from interaction”
    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...
    06 April 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 6 “Evolution: Cognition from scratch”
    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...
    30 March 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”
    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...
    24 March 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”
    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...
    18 March 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”
    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...
    09 March 2013, by

    Designed to mingle: Rezero ballbot’s smooth moves can handle a crowd
    Designing robots that can function outside of controlled, factory environments isn’t easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to...
    05 March 2013, by

    Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich
    The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, organizer of the ShanghAI Lectures, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big robot festival on 8 and 9 March 2013 in Zurich....
    03 March 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”
    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...
    01 March 2013, by

    KUKA youBot HACKATHON 2013
    German KUKA youBot Store has announced a new initiative to promote education in mobile manipulation. Research groups and labs in universities and public research facilities are invited to organize an ...
    27 February 2013, by

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