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ShanghAI Lectures: Inman Harvey “Metaphorical homunculi: we don’t really have little men inside our heads”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Inman Harvey from the University of Sussex, UK, talks about Representation and its issues....
11 September 2014, by

On internal models, consequence engines and Popperian creatures

So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain. For a couple of years I've been thinking about robots with internal models. Not internal models in the classical...
08 September 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Kevin Warwick “AI with biological brains”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading, UK, talks about a closed-loop interface between a biological network and a robot, ...
04 September 2014, by

Algorithm looking at art finds connections art historians had never noticed | Medium

Of course, Saleh and co do not claim that this kind of algorithm can take the place of an art historian. After all, the discovery of a link between paintings in this way is just the starting point for...
03 September 2014, by

We should not be privileging the singularity hypothesis | Alan Winfield via The Guardian

By worrying unnecessarily [about the Singularity hypothesis] I think we’re falling into a trap: the fallacy of privileging the hypothesis. And – perhaps worse – taking our eyes off other risks ...
03 September 2014, by

Your robot doggie could really be pleased to see you

There have been several stories in the last few weeks about emotional robots - robots that feel. Some are suggesting that this is the next big thing in robotics. It's something I wrote about in t...
02 September 2014, by



ShanghAI Lectures: Tamas Haidegger “Humans-robots-humans: Who is operating who?”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-08 In this guest lecture, Tamás Haidegger from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary, talks about Computer-Integrated Surgery, giv...
28 August 2014, by

Inroads in perception

Google's recent acquisition of Emu Messenger is just one of many items in recent news about improvements in perception and artificial intelligence (AI)....
22 August 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Rüdiger Dillmann “Programming by Demonstration”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Rüdiger Dillmann from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, talks about paradigms for robot learning and the proper...
21 August 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Enhancing Autonomy and Safety of Assistive Robots”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Weidong Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, talks about the design of assistive robots, especially a robotic whe...
14 August 2014, by

Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | Alan Winfield via The Guardian

The doomsayers believe that humanity will be overwhelmed by creating machines that – like Terminator's Skynet – become ever-more clever and reach a singularity. They're wrong. Read more by Alan W...
12 August 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Barbara Webb “AI – Artificial Insects”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-08 In this guest lecture, Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, talks about using robots to model biology, human and insect brains, a...
07 August 2014, by

When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target | MIT News

Levine and How developed an algorithm that can efficiently calculate just how much information any node in the graph gives you about any other — what in information theory is called “mutual inform...
01 August 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Dustin Li “Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-01 In this guest lecture, Dustin Li from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China, talks about the design of a robot that autonomously d...
31 July 2014, by

What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?

Want to create human-equivalent AI? Well, broadly speaking, there are three approaches open to you: design it, reverse-engineer it or evolve it. The third of these - artificial evolution - is attrac...
28 July 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Thierry Bücheler “Latest Insights on Human Collective Intelligence”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-24 In this guest lecture, Thierry Bücheler from the AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland, talks about collective intelligence, quality and critica...
24 July 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Fumiya Iida “Soft robotics approach toward artificial ontogenetic development”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17 Artificial ontogenetic development has been nicely demonstrated by many computer simulation studies in the past. There are, however, still a number o...
17 July 2014, by

Could software replace your doctor? | USA Today

See on USA Today Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com See on Fox News....
10 July 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior”

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...
10 July 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”

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...
03 July 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Barry Richards and Craig Turnbull “Robotics and Automation Applied to the Aircraft Industry”

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....
26 June 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Olivier Michel “Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots”

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...
19 June 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Fabio Bonsignorio “Embodied Finance: Embodying Disruptive Innovation in Embodied Cognitive Systems”

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...
12 June 2014, by

Robot selfies, and the road to self-recognition

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...
09 June 2014, by

SoftBank + Aldebaran = Pepper

    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...
06 June 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Claude Patrick Siegenthaler “In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets”

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...
05 June 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Toshiyuki Nakagaki “How does an amoeba tackle a maze?”

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 ...
01 June 2014, by

The answer to mis-selling? Let a robot pick your investments | The Telegraph

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...
29 May 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Minoru Asada “Cognitive Developmental Robotics”

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 “...
22 May 2014, by

30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk

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). ...
21 May 2014, by







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