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ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Compliant Body as a Source of Intelligence”
Nathan Labhart
21 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05
Animals and Humans utilize their compliance: muscular system and soft skin. The compliance plays an important role to exhibit intelligent behavior. T...
Ethical robots: Some technical and ethical challenges
Alan Winfield
19 Nov 2013
I've been talking about robot ethics for several years now, but that's mostly been about how we roboticists must be responsible and mindful of the societal impact of our creations. Two years ago I w...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Brian David Johnson “Brain Machines: Robots, Free Will and Science Fiction Prototypes”
Nathan Labhart
08 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-10-29
How can science fiction help prototype emerging science theory and experimentation? Expanding on the framework of consumer experience architecture, t...
ShanghAI Lectures: Auke Ijspeert “Controlling the Locomotion of Robots Using Central Pattern Generator Models”
Nathan Labhart
01 Nov 2013
Animal locomotion control is in a large part based on central pattern generators (CPGs), which are neural networks capable of producing complex rhythmic patterns while being activated and modulated by...
ShanghAI Lectures: Bernard Horan “Mixing real and virtual worlds in education”
Nathan Labhart
24 Oct 2013
Bernard Horan presents an overview of a trial undertaken at the University of Essex in the use of a mixed-reality teaching environment. The lecture includes a summary of the motivations for mixed real...
ShanghAI Lectures: Lutz Jäncke “On the neuropsychology of avatars”
Nathan Labhart
17 Oct 2013
The ShanghAI lectures have brought us a treasure trove of guest lectures by experts in robotics. You can find the whole series from 2012 here. Now, we're bringing you the guest lectures you haven't ye...
ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”
Nathan Labhart
14 Aug 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which however c...
Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery
Robohub Editors
06 May 2013
Many surgeries today are performed as open, invasive procedures because surgeons lack the right tools. Our goal is to create the technology that will enable converting these open procedures to minima...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”
Nathan Labhart
06 May 2013
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...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”
Nathan Labhart
25 Apr 2013
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 ...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 8 “Where is human memory?”
Nathan Labhart
16 Apr 2013
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...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from interaction”
Nathan Labhart
06 Apr 2013
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...
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...
Flying insects and robots
Sabine Hauert
24 Feb 2013
TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
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....
