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ShanghAI Lectures: Yukie Nagai “What should robots learn from caregiver-infant interaction?”

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....
15 May 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Alan Spreckley “Robotic Automation in Manufacturing”

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....
08 May 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Simon Grand “Building Intelligent Companies: Enterpreneurial Management and Design Principles”

  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....
24 April 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”

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...
17 April 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”

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...
10 April 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 9 – Towards a theory of intelligence

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 ...
07 April 2014, by



ShanghAI Lectures: Louis-Philippe Demers “Embodiment and robotic arts”

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...
21 March 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session

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 ...
18 March 2014, by

Embodied communication: Looking for systems that mean what they say

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...
14 March 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Tamim Asfour “Robots think with their hands”

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...
13 March 2014, by

Machine consciousness: Fact or fiction?

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 ...
10 March 2014, by and

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-I – Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition

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...
10 March 2014, by

Why robots will not be smarter than humans by 2029

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 ...
07 March 2014, by

Putting the IV into Intelligent Virtual Assistants

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...
06 March 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Shuhei Miyashita “Tribolon: Scalable Self-Assembling Robots”

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...
06 March 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Serge Kernbach “Collective and Modular Robotics: Fundamentials and Frontiers”

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...
27 February 2014, by

From disembodied bytes to robots that think and act like humans

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...
25 February 2014, by and

ShanghAI Lectures: Xiao’an Li “Action Skill Developmental Learning for Autonomous Soccer Robots”

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 ...
20 February 2014, by

Why intelligence requires both body and brain

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...
18 February 2014, by and

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 5 – Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration I

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...
17 February 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Adrianne Wortzel “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”

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...
13 February 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 4 – Evolution: Cognition from scratch

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 ...
10 February 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Hiroshi Yokoi “Future Trend”

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...
06 February 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 3: Cognition and embodiment

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...
03 February 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Wenwei Yu “A Simulation Study on Reflexive Responses during Walking”

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...
30 January 2014, by

Robot love: Spike Jonze’s new sci-fi film ‘Her’ may be closer to reality than you think

Her is a science fiction movie about love.  It's about robot love, about love for robots, and it's also not that fictional. The story you already know: a sentimental writer (Joaquin Phoenix) fall...
28 January 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Sukhan Lee “Cognitive Recognition for Service Robots”

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,...
23 January 2014, by

How biotech might pool the power of the human brain – with Proteo.me CEO Ivo Georgiev

Artificial intelligence has it’s advantages. Systematically, over decades of research and development, AI has come to dominate human intelligence in a number of specific and often limited tasks. Yet...
22 January 2014, by and

Brainlike computing: Something big is happening

This infographic on the state of AI by BestComputerScienceDegrees.com doesn't reflect the recent Nest Labs acquisition by Google. Nevertheless one can see that speedy computers and libraries of digita...
17 January 2014, by

ShanghAI Lectures: Alois Knoll, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani “Joint-Action Science and Technology”

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...
16 January 2014, by







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