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ShanghAI Lectures: Yukie Nagai “What should robots learn from caregiver-infant interaction?”
Nathan Labhart
15 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20
In this guest lecture, Yukie Nagai from Osaka University, Japan, talks about teaching infants and robots, attention, and scaffolding....
ShanghAI Lectures: Alan Spreckley “Robotic Automation in Manufacturing”
Nathan Labhart
08 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-13
This talks provides a summary of the current and future market places, key application areas, history of robotics and future trends....
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 10 – Future Trends
Fabio Bonsignorio
28 Apr 2014
This week we publish the tenth and last of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub. We have been releasing a new lecture from this series on Monday for several weeks and this is the last one....
ShanghAI Lectures: Simon Grand “Building Intelligent Companies: Enterpreneurial Management and Design Principles”
Nathan Labhart
24 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-11-18
In this guest lecture, Simon Grand from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, talks about building intelligent companies....
ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”
Nathan Labhart
17 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-11-18
Sensorimotor interaction between an agent and its environment seems to be the key ingredient to develop intelligent behaviour. In this talk, the impo...
ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”
Nathan Labhart
10 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-10-21
In this guest presentation, Patrick van der Smagt talks about biomimetic approaches to robot control, kinematics, grasping, and ways to use the human...
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: Rafael Núñez “Where mathematics comes from’”
Nathan Labhart
03 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
In this guest lecture, Rafael Núñez from the University of California, San Diego, USA, talks about Mathematics as a paradox for embodiment and cog...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Louis-Philippe Demers “Embodiment and robotic arts”
Nathan Labhart
21 Mar 2014
The Blind Robot by Louis-Philippe Demers is a reference to the works of Merleau-Ponty and his example of the body extension of the blind man’s cane, where the cane not only senses the world but also...
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 ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Tamim Asfour “Robots think with their hands”
Nathan Labhart
13 Mar 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
The design of cognitive situated robots able to learn to operate in the real world and to interact and communicate with humans, must model and reflec...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Shuhei Miyashita “Tribolon: Scalable Self-Assembling Robots”
Nathan Labhart
06 Mar 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-02
Self-assembly is of crucial importance in the biological realm at all scales. This talk introduces a series of self-assembling robots developed in ou...
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...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 6 – Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration II
Fabio Bonsignorio
24 Feb 2014
Lecture 6 - Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration II
In this second lecture hosted by the Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Matteo Cianchetti builds on the previous lecture to talk about building soft actuato...
ShanghAI Lectures: Xiao’an Li “Action Skill Developmental Learning for Autonomous Soccer Robots”
Nathan Labhart
20 Feb 2014
Robocub 2013 in Eindhoven.
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In the past decade, soccer robots have been developed greatly, and some of the robot soccer games have been showing more ...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 5 – Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration I
Fabio Bonsignorio
17 Feb 2014
Lecture 5 - Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration I
Hosted by Prof. Cecilia Laschi from the Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa, Italy, this ShanghAI episode puts together contrasting approaches to ‘emb...
ShanghAI Lectures: Adrianne Wortzel “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”
Nathan Labhart
13 Feb 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
This lecture discusses the relevance of embedding dramatic scenarios and expressive language into methodologies employed in the research and developm...
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 ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Hiroshi Yokoi “Future Trend”
Nathan Labhart
06 Feb 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In this guest lecture, Hiroshi Yokoi from University of Electro-Communication, Chofu, Japan, talks about prosthetic robot hands, EMG devices, bio-fee...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Wenwei Yu “A Simulation Study on Reflexive Responses during Walking”
Nathan Labhart
30 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In this guest lecture, Wenwei Yu from Chiba University, Japan, introduces his approach to assistive technology and talks about (simulation) experime...
ShanghAI Lectures: Sukhan Lee “Cognitive Recognition for Service Robots”
Nathan Labhart
23 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-10
Recognition has been a subject of intense research interest to computer vision, AI, cognitive science, as well as robotics communities for, at least,...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Part 2: Embodied intelligence
Fabio Bonsignorio
21 Jan 2014
This week we publish the second 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 ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Alois Knoll, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani “Joint-Action Science and Technology”
Nathan Labhart
16 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-10
The success of the human species critically depends on our extraordinary ability to engage in joint action. Our perceptions, decisions and behaviour ar...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Part 1 – Intelligence: Things can be seen differently
Fabio Bonsignorio
13 Jan 2014
This week marks the launch 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 secti...
ShanghAI Lectures: Samia Nefti-Mezziani “Non-rational Particle Swarm Optimization”
Nathan Labhart
09 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-03
Among the evolutionary algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) represents an optimization method where individuals, called particles, collabora...
ShanghAI Lectures: Christopher Lueg “Scaffolding & Embodiment: Perspectives in Human Computer Interaction”
Nathan Labhart
02 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-03
In this talk Professor Lueg will discuss how embodiment and scaffolding perspectives discussed in the ShanghAI Lectures on Natural and Artificial Int...
ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and Control of Mobile Robot Networks”
Nathan Labhart
27 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-26
Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which can achieve...
ShanghAI Lectures: Eugen Elmiger “Drives for Intelligent Robots”
Nathan Labhart
19 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-19
In this guest lecture, Eugen Elmiger from maxon motor ag, Sachseln, Switzerland, gives an overview of the precision motors his company produces, and ...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition: Live webcast on Thursday, 09:30 CET
Fabio Bonsignorio
18 Dec 2013
If you have been following the ShanghAI Lectures, you will not want to miss the live webcast of the final 2013 lecture this Thursday starting at 9:30 CET. Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich) will expl...
ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Resilient Machines”
Nathan Labhart
12 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-19
If the body plays a central role in intelligence, as a roboticist, how do we choose an appropriate body for our robot? Evolutionary robotics allows u...
ShanghAI Lectures: Hisato Kobayashi “AI-ish approach for complicated robot control”
Nathan Labhart
05 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
If we try to describe any kinds of robot by mathematical models, they must be very complicated equations. Even, such robotic systems are categorized ...
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...
