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Robots on Tour event draws larger-than-expected crowds

Nathan Labhart 20 Mar 2013

Surprise! Robots are much more popular than expected! Robots on Tour started off on Friday 8 March 2013 with a scientific symposium at café/bar Sphères in Zurich, Switzerland. Big names from the...

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...

Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich

Nathan Labhart 03 Mar 2013

The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, organizer of the ShanghAI Lectures, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big robot festival on 8 and 9 March 2013 in Zurich....

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...

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....

Curious & creative, with Rob Saunders

Podcast team 11 Jan 2013

Link to audio file (36:25)In today’s episode we speak with Rob Saunders about work done at the University of Sydney in computational creativity and curiosity....