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ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior”
Nathan Labhart
10 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17
In this guest lecture, Josh Bongard from the University of Vermont (USA) and co-author of How the body shapes the way we think (MIT Press), talks ab...
ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”
Nathan Labhart
03 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10
In this guest lecture, Koh Hosoda from Osaka University, Japan, talks about human and humanoid intelligence, movement, and bouncing, and introduces t...
ShanghAI Lectures: Barry Richards and Craig Turnbull “Robotics and Automation Applied to the Aircraft Industry”
Nathan Labhart
26 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10
In this guest lecture, Craig Turnbull and Barry Richards from Electroimpact talk about robots in aircraft manufacturing....
ShanghAI Lectures: Olivier Michel “Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots”
Nathan Labhart
19 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10
This presentation introduces Cyberbotics Ltd. with a little bit of history (where it came from), then it presents the Webots software that allows res...
ShanghAI Lectures: Fabio Bonsignorio “Embodied Finance: Embodying Disruptive Innovation in Embodied Cognitive Systems”
Nathan Labhart
12 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03
In this guest lecture, Fabio Bonsignorio from University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, talks about issues with innovation and robotic startup companie...
Robot selfies, and the road to self-recognition
Oliver Bendel
09 Jun 2014
People take selfies with smartphones and digital cameras (or even with flying robots), and share them on social media, blogs, microblogs and image platforms for social purposes, and though selfies m...
SoftBank + Aldebaran = Pepper
Frank Tobe
06 Jun 2014
The latest creation from Aldebaran Robotics - Pepper - is designed to live with humans. It doesn’t clean or cook but it talks, is mobile, can read emotions, and reacts aut...
ShanghAI Lectures: Claude Patrick Siegenthaler “In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets”
Nathan Labhart
05 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03
In this guest lecture, Claude Patrick Siegenthaler from Switzerland gives a brief introduction to economics and markets and relates them to intellige...
ShanghAI Lectures: Toshiyuki Nakagaki “How does an amoeba tackle a maze?”
Nathan Labhart
01 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-27
In this guest lecture, Toshiyuki Nakagaki from Future University Hakodate, Japan, talks about his experiments with true slime mold and its abilities ...
The answer to mis-selling? Let a robot pick your investments | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
29 May 2014
Chris Williams, a director on the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP), said: "Technology is the key to bridging the advice gap. Clients are already engaging with technology in their everyday lives a...
ShanghAI Lectures: Minoru Asada “Cognitive Developmental Robotics”
Nathan Labhart
22 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20
In this guest lecture, Minoru Asada from Osaka University, Japan, talks about combining developmental psychology, neuroscience, and robotics into “...
30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk
Nathan Labhart
21 May 2014
Source: University of Zurich Mediadesk
Watch Rolf Pfeifer’s farewell lecture at the University of Zurich, broadcasting live on Robohub Friday May 23, 2014 (18:00–19:30 CEST/16:00–17:30 UTC).
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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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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...
Machine consciousness: Fact or fiction?
Igor Aleksander and Footnote
10 Mar 2014
My workday is over. What do I want to do now? I picture calling my wife to suggest dinner at that nice Italian restaurant and imagine the taste of gnocchi quattro formaggi. Then I remember promising ...
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 ...
Putting the IV into Intelligent Virtual Assistants
Mark Stephen Meadows
06 Mar 2014
The incoming second wave of contextual agents
There's a virtual lobby of Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) waiting to help us these days. These multi-million dollar systems include Yahoo's Don...
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: 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
