embodied intelligence

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 ...

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 ...

Embodied communication: Looking for systems that mean what they say

Gregor Schöner 14 Mar 2014

The lay notion of how human communication works is, basically, that we exchange packages of information that are encoded and then decoded in our heads using language. But it just takes a little observ...

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�...

Why robots will not be smarter than humans by 2029

Alan Winfield 07 Mar 2014

Statue of Alan Turing. Photo credit: Neil Crosby In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by ...

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 7 – Design principles of intelligent systems

Fabio Bonsignorio 03 Mar 2014

This week we publish the seventh of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub. You can learn more about the ShanghAI lectures here. Lecture 7 - Design principles of intelligent systems Thi...

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...