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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 10 – Future Trends</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fabio Bonsignorio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week we publish the tenth and last of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub. We have been releasing  a new lecture from this series on Monday for several weeks and this is the last one. Please use the comments section below to send us your questions, and we will do our best to respond! [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This week we publish the tenth and last of the </em><a href="http://robohub.org/tag/shanghai-lectures-2013/" data-wpel-link="internal"><i>ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition</i></a><em> on Robohub. We have been releasing  a new lecture from this series on Monday for several weeks and this is the last one. Please use the comments section below to send us your questions, and we will do our best to respond! You can learn more about the ShanghAI lectures </em><a href="http://shanghailectures.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer"><i>here</i></a><em>. Stay tuned for the 2014 Edition! And more later…on RoboHub!<span id="more-30644"></span></em></p>
<p><strong>Lecture 10: Future trends</strong></p>
<p>This lecture, which I hosted at the from the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, recaps the whole 2013 series and looks at the future of AI, Robotics and …the Shanghai Lectures themselves :-)</p>
<p><strong>“How the body shapes the way we think &#8211; principles and insights &#8221; by Rolf Pfeifer</strong></p>
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<p>In yet another great lecture, Rolf summarizes the main ideas and concepts we have reviewed in the Shanghai Lectures. Check here for his thought-stimulating insights:</p>
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<p><strong>Guest lecture: “Autonomous Service Robots that Can Ask for Help&#8221; by Manuela Veloso</strong></p>
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<p>In this guest lecture Prof. Manuela Veloso, very appropriately H. A. Simon Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, gives us a compressed survey of her research. She also shows us  how we may work around current limitations of AI and Robotics by simply letting robots ask for our help! What does she mean by this? Watch her lecture here:</p>
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<p>Manuela Veloso is President of AAAI, past president of the RoboCup Federation, and a fellow of IEEE, AAAI and AAAS.</p>
<p><em>That&#8217;s all, folks, for 2013! Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!</em></p>
<p><strong>About the ShanghAI Lectures</strong></p>
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<p>While in the classical approach “intelligence” was essentially viewed as information processing taking place in the brain, the more recent insight that interaction with the environment is of central importance is gaining acceptance. This has led to the metaphor of embodiment, i.e., that intelligence is always a property of an entire organism — an idea that has far-reaching implications and often leads to surprising insights, but which has not so far been widely exploited in industry practice.</p>
<p>The ShanghAI Lectures project aims to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Build a sustainable community of students and researchers in the area of Embodied Intelligence</li>
<li>Make education and knowledge on cutting-edge scientific topics accessible to everyone</li>
<li>Explore novel methods of knowledge transfer</li>
<li>Overcome the complexity of a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary learning context</li>
<li>Bring global teaching to a new level</li>
</ul>
<p>These lectures about Natural and Artificial Intelligence have been held via videoconference at the University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy, Humboldt University Berlin in Germany, University of Plymouth and University of Salford in the UK, and 10 other universities around the globe. Students from the participating universities are still working together on the exercises, using Webots by Cyberbotics, and Ludobots by the University of Vermont.</p>
<p>The lectures have also been streamed to allow remote participation to anybody.</p>
<p>The ShanghAI Lectures differ from ‘conventional’ MOOCs as they exploit telecommunication technology to build a global, distributed lecture hall that allows rich interaction rather than simply implementing the good old fashioned TV broadcasting model on a different medium. They also differ from other AI courses as they propose a new paradigm approach to embodied cognition (a.k.a. AI and Robotics). It is a kind of Copernican revolution with respect to GOFAI and its robotics application — and thus a research program for the coming decades.</p>
<p>This year I coordinated the lectures, with help from Prof. Rolf Pfeifer and Dr. Nathan Labhart at the University of Zurich . Rolf Pfeifer and I provided the context (introduction, moderation, and conclusion). As always, there were 2-3  invited guest lectures each week.</p>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 4 &#8211; Evolution: Cognition from scratch</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fabio Bonsignorio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 section below to send us your questions, and we will do our best to respond! You can learn more about the [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This week we publish the fourth of the </em><a href="http://robohub.org/tag/shanghai-lectures-2013/" data-wpel-link="internal"><i>ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition</i></a><em> on Robohub — we will release a new lecture from this series every Monday until the series is complete. Please use the comments section below to send us your questions, and we will do our best to respond! You can learn more about the ShanghAI lectures </em><a href="http://shanghailectures.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer"><i>here</i></a><em>.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lecture 4 &#8211; Evolution: Cognition from scratch</strong></p>
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<p>If you believe that it&#8217;s too difficult to develop the mathematical models required to arrive at a new concept of embodied AI and robotics, this lecture will offer you hope. In her talk, Prof. Verena Hafner, from Humboldt University in Berlin, discusses the concept of ‘body maps’ from an embodied intelligence perspective, and shows how they can emerge from sensorimotor flow, through information distances in the data flow and/or an internal simulation. <span id="more-26650"></span>In this context the ‘body map’ is not a symbolic ‘representation’ of the agent’s body, but rather an emerging structure used by the agent in its interaction with its environment.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;">&#8220;</strong><strong style="color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;">Creating body maps&#8221; by Verena Hafner</strong></p>
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<p><strong>&#8220;</strong><strong>Evolution: cognition from scratch&#8221; by Rolf Pfeifer</strong></p>
<p>In the second talk, Rolf Pfeifer shows how evolutionary processes at different time scales drive the development of embodied intelligence in nature, and how they can be mimicked (with surprisingly good results) for the development of artificial systems, including … pipes and antennas!</p>
<p>How can we exploit Gene Regulatory Networks for the development of a new paradigm for robots?</p>
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<p><strong>Guest Lecture &#8211; &#8220;</strong><strong>How can we test for artificial life? Complexity and computation in Nature&#8221; by Hector Zenil</strong></p>
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<p>An unlikely yellow &#8216;computer&#8217;?</p>
<p>The skeptics will think that certain concepts such as ‘life’ or ‘self-organization’ are too  elusive and ill-defined to be useful to AI. Hector Zeni, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockolm, Sweden, does cutting-edge research on the applications of Algorithmic Information Theory to the modeling of life and cognition. Witness how AIT might come to the rescue with this lecture, also hosted by Humboldt University Berlin …</p>
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<p><strong>About the ShanghAI Lectures</strong></p>
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<p>While in the classical approach “intelligence” was essentially viewed as information processing taking place in the brain, the more recent insight that interaction with the environment is of central importance is gaining acceptance. This has led to the metaphor of embodiment, i.e., that intelligence is always a property of an entire organism — an idea that has far-reaching implications and often leads to surprising insights, but which has not so far been widely exploited in industry practice.</p>
<p>The ShanghAI Lectures project aims to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Build a sustainable community of students and researchers in the area of Embodied Intelligence</li>
<li>Make education and knowledge on cutting-edge scientific topics accessible to everyone</li>
<li>Explore novel methods of knowledge transfer</li>
<li>Overcome the complexity of a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary learning context</li>
<li>Bring global teaching to a new level</li>
</ul>
<p>These lectures about Natural and Artificial Intelligence have been held via videoconference at the University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy, Humboldt University Berlin in Germany, University of Plymouth and University of Salford in the UK, and 10 other universities around the globe. Students from the participating universities are still working together on the exercises, using Webots by Cyberbotics, and Ludobots by the University of Vermont.</p>
<p>The lectures have also been streamed to allow remote participation to anybody.</p>
<p>The ShanghAI Lectures differ from ‘conventional’ MOOCs as they exploit telecommunication technology to build a global, distributed lecture hall that allows rich interaction rather than simply implementing the good old fashioned TV broadcasting model on a different medium. They also differ from other AI courses as they propose a new paradigm approach to embodied cognition (a.k.a. AI and Robotics). It is a kind of Copernican revolution with respect to GOFAI and its robotics application — and thus a research program for the coming decades.</p>
<p>This year I coordinated the lectures, with help from Prof. Rolf Pfeifer and Dr. Nathan Labhart at the University of Zurich . Rolf Pfeifer and I provided the context (introduction, moderation, and conclusion). As always, there were 2-3  invited guest lectures each week.</p>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 Lectures. Then there are three guest lectures: Tamás Haidegger (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) on surgical robots, Aude Billard [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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 Lectures.</p>
<p>Then there are three guest lectures: <a title="Tamás Haidegger" href="http://surgrob.blogspot.ch/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Tamás Haidegger</a> (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) on surgical robots, <a title="Aude Billard" href="http://lasa.epfl.ch/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Aude Billard</a> (EPFL) on how the body shapes the way we move (and how humans can shape the way robots move), and <a title="Jamie Paik" href="http://people.epfl.ch/jamie.paik" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Jamie Paik</a> (EPFL) on soft robotics.</p>
<p><span id="more-9070"></span>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
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<p><strong>Tamás Haidegger: Human Skills for Robots: Transferring Human Knowledge and Capabilities to Robotic Task Execution in Surgery</strong></p>
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<p>Almost 90 years ago, the idea of telesurgery was born, along with the initial concept of robots. From the early 1970s, researchers were focusing on robotic telepresence, to empower surgeons to treat patients at a distance. The first systems appeared over 20 years ago, and robotic surgery has quickly become a standard-of-care for certain procedures—at least in the USA. Over the decades, the control concept remained the same; a human surgeon guiding the robotic tools based on real-time sensory feedback. However, from the beginning of the development, the more exciting (and sometimes frightening) questions have been linked to machine learning, AI and automated surgery. In the true sense of automation, there have only been unclear reports of one single robotically planned and executed surgery so far, despite the fact that many research groups are working on the problem. This talk introduces the major efforts currently undertaken in centers of excellence around the globe to transfer the incredibly diverse and versatile human cognition into the domain of surgical robotics.</p>
<p>References</p>
<ul>
<li>P. Kazanzides, G. Fichtinger, G. D. Hager, A. M. Okamura, L. L. Whitcomb, and R. H. Taylor, “Surgical and Interventional Robotics: part I,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 122–130, 2008.</li>
<li>G. Fichtinger , P. Kazanzides, G. D. Hager, A. M. Okamura, L. L. Whitcomb, and R. H. Taylor, “Surgical and Interventional Robotics: part II,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 94–102, 2008.</li>
<li>G. Hager, A. Okamura, P. Kazanzides, L. Whitcomb, G. Fichtinger, and R. Taylor, “Surgical and Interventional Robotics: part III,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 84–93, 2008.</li>
<li>C. E. Reiley, H. C. Lin, D. D. Yuh, G. D. Hager. “A Review of Methods for Objective Surgical Skill Evaluation,” Surgical Endoscopy, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 356–366, 2011.</li>
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<p><strong>Aude Billard: How the body shapes the way we move and how humans can shape the way robots move</strong></p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="How the body shapes the way we move - and How humans can shape the way robots move [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tpB1Sx1sxnw?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p>In this lecture Aude Billard advocates that it is advantageous to have robots move with a dynamics that resembles the dynamics of motion of natural bodies, even if the robots do not resemble humans in their physical appearance (e.g. industrial robots). This will make their motion more predictable for humans and hence make the interaction safer. She then briefly presents current approaches to modeling the dynamics of human motion in robots.</p>
<p>A survey of issues on robot learning from human demonstration can be found at:<br />
<a href="http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Robot_learning_by_demonstration" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Robot_learning_by_demonstration</a></p>
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<p><strong>Jamie Paik: SOFT Robot Challenge and  Robogamis</strong></p>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 one by Ning Lan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) on cortico-muscular communication in the nervous system, the second by Roland Siegwart (ETH [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>In the 9th part of the <a href="http://robohub.org/tag/shanghai-lectures/" target="_blank" title="ShanghAI" data-wpel-link="internal">ShanghAI Lecture</a> 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 one by <a title="Ning Lan" href="http://med-x.sjtu.edu.cn/english/t_xiangxi.asp?SortID=2&amp;ID=92" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Ning Lan</a> (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) on cortico-muscular communication in the nervous system, the second by <a title="Roland Siegwart" href="http://www.asl.ethz.ch/people/rolandsi/index" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Roland Siegwart</a> (ETH Zurich) on the design and navigation of robots with various moving abilities.</p>
<p><span id="more-9068"></span>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Lecture 9/10: Ontogenetic Development [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3Qq2kPBGIu0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>Ning Lan: Cortico-Muscular Communication of Movement Information by Central Regulation of Spindle Sensitivity</strong></p>
<p><a title="Ning Lan" href="http://med-x.sjtu.edu.cn/english/t_xiangxi.asp?SortID=2&amp;ID=92" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Ning Lan</a> is Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. He tells us about cortico-muscular communication in the nervous system.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Cortico-Muscular Communication of Movement Information [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0GXKb4uNS2Q?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>Roland Siegwart: Design and Navigation of Wheeled, Running, Swimming and Flying Robots</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.asl.ethz.ch/people/rolandsi" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Roland Siegwart</a> is professor at ETH Zurich and the director of the <a href="http://www.asl.ethz.ch/" target="ASL" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Autonomous Systems Laboratory</a>.</p>
<p>Robots are rapidly evolving from factory work-horses, which are physically bound to their work-cells, to increasingly complex machines capable of performing challenging tasks as search and rescuing, surveillance and inspections, planetary exploration or autonomous transportation of goods. This requires robots to operate in unstructured and unpredictable environments and various terrains. This talk will focus on design and navigation aspects of wheeled, legged, swimming and aerial robots operating in complex environments.</p>
<p>Siegwart presents wheeled inspection robots designed to crawl into machines and take various measurement, quadruped walkers that exploit natural dynamics and serial elastic actuation, swimming robots and autonomous micro-helicopters used to inspect cluttered, GPS denied cities or narrow indoor environments. He also presents a small fixed-wing airplane capable of staying in the air indefinitely due to its solar powered generator.</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jZtOlIrxjY</p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-9slides.pdf" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 9" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (17.4 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 8 “Where is human memory?”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 Zabotkina (Russian State University for the Humanities) talks about cognitive modeling in linguistics; in the second guest lecture, José del R. Millán (EPFL) demonstrates [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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 Zabotkina (Russian State University for the Humanities) talks about cognitive modeling in linguistics; in the second guest lecture, <a title="José del R. Millán" href="http://people.epfl.ch/jose.millan" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">José del R. Millán</a> (EPFL) demonstrates a brain-computer interface.<span id="more-9066"></span></p>
<p><!--more-->The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Lecture 8/10: Where is Human Memory? [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2qGm0WLOazI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>Vera Zabotkina: Cognitive modeling in linguistics: conceptual metaphors</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>The concepts that govern our thought are not just matters of the intellect. They also govern our everyday functioning, down to the most mundane details. Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world, and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor… (Lakoff &amp; Johnson, 1980)</p></blockquote>
<p>In this lecture, Vera addresses the integration challenge facing cognitive science as an interdisciplinary endeavor. She highlights the interconnection between AI and Linguistics and discusses conceptual metaphors. </p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Cognitive modeling in linguistics - conceptual metaphors [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/G3rEEmElXjc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>José del Millán: Brain-Computer Interfacing</strong><br />
In this lecture, José del R. Millán (EPFL) demonstrates the use of human brain signals to control devices, such as wheelchairs, and interact with our environment.</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z6HRD9KAnY</p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-8slides.pdf" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 8" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (4.06 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
<li>George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, <a href="http://www.soc.washington.edu/users/brines/lakoff.pdf" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Metaphors we live by</a>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.</li>
<li>Cliff Goddard, Semantic Analysis. <a href="http://books.google.ru/books?id=qfar1cmATvUC&amp;pg=PA85&amp;lpg=PA85&amp;dq=cliff+goddard+semantic+analysis+3.4.3+conceptual+metaphor&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=NjZOZ4xI6J&amp;sig=mEOM7TnskDRyGfTzjenN01xOpjE&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=eIuzULyTKpT34QSjq4CQBw&amp;sqi=2&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=cliff%20goddard%20semantic%20analysis%203.4.3%20conceptual%20metaphor&amp;f=false" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">A practical Introduction.</a> Second edition. Oxford University Press, 2011.</li>
<li>James Pustejovsky. <a href="http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J91/J91-4003.pdf" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">The Generative Lexicon</a>. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1995.</li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from interaction”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 that form flocks. In the guest lecture, István Harmati (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) discusses the coordination of multi-agent robotic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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 that form flocks. In the guest lecture, <a title="István Harmati" href="http://www.fsz.bme.hu/public/staff/harmati/index_e.html" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">István Harmati</a> (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) discusses the coordination of multi-agent robotic systems.<span id="more-9064"></span></p>
<p>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Lecture 7/10: Collective Intelligence: Cognition from Interaction [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JIKrMjDJDYo?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>István Harmati: Coordination of Multi-Agent Robotic Systems</strong></p>
<p>Control and coordination of multi-agent autonomous systems plays an increasing role in robotics. Such systems are used in a variety of applications including finding and moving objects, search and rescue, target tracking, target assignments, optimal military maneuvers, formation control, traffic control and robotic games (soccer, hockey). Control and coordination are often implemented at different levels. On the highest level, robot teams are given a global task to perform (e.g attacking in robot soccer). Since it is hard to find and optimal solution to such global challenges, the methods presented are based mainly on heuristics and artificial intelligence (fuzzy systems, value rules, etc). On the middle level, the individual robots are given tactics to reach a global goal. Examples include kicking the ball to the goal or occupying a strategic position in the field. On the lowest level, the robot is controlled to perform the desired behavior (specified by the strategy and the tactics). Finally, we also show the main issues and the general ideas related to the efficient coordination of multi-agent systems.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Coordination of Multi-Agent Robotic Systems [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xFPBYt8Yygs?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-7slides.pdf" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 7" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (7.1 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 6 “Evolution: Cognition from scratch”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 lecture, by Francesco Mondada (EPFL) is about the use of robots in daily life; in the second guest lecture, Robert Riener (ETH Zürich) talks about rehabilitation robots. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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 lecture, by <a title="Francesco Mondada" href="http://mobots.epfl.ch/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Francesco Mondada</a> (EPFL) is about the use of robots in daily life; in the second guest lecture, <a title="Robert Riener" href="http://www.sms.hest.ethz.ch/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Robert Riener</a> (ETH Zürich) talks about rehabilitation robots.</p>
<p><span id="more-9062"></span></p>
<p>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Lecture 6/10: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Tv4Eh4lzU7k?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>Francesco Mondada: Toward Robots For Daily Life</strong></p>
<p>In a recent survey from the European Commission, 60% of the participants said that robots should be banned from the application area &#8220;care of children, elderly, and the disabled&#8221;, 34% would like to ban robots from &#8220;education&#8221;. Within this framework, what is the future of robotics in daily life services? Two research projects answering this question are presented in this talk: education using specific robotics tools and a new form of embodiment for service robotics. Some preliminary results are illustrated, showing a very interesting potential demonstrated by a high acceptance of the proposed approaches.</p>
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<p><strong>Robert Riener: Design Principles for Intelligent Rehabilitation Robots</strong></p>
<p>Integrating the human into a robotic rehabilitation system can be challenging not only from a biomechanical view but also with regard to psycho-physiological aspects. Biomechanical integration involves ensuring that the system to be used is ergonomically acceptable and &#8220;user-cooperative&#8221;. Psycho-physiological integration involves recording and controlling the patient&#8217;s physiological reactions so that the patient receives appropriate stimuli and is challenged in a moderate but engaging way. In this talk basic design criteria are presented that should be taken into account, when developing and applying an intelligent robotic system that is in close interaction with the human subject. One must carefully take into account the constraints given by human biomechanical, physiological and psychological functions in order to optimize device function without causing undue stress or harm to the human user.</p>
<p>References:</p>
<ul>
<li>Robert Riener, Lars Lünenburger, Gery Colombo: <a href="http://shanghailectures.org/sites/default/files/uploads/JRRD_06_Human_Centered.pdf" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Human-centered robotics applied to gait training and assessment</a>, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 43(5), August/September 2006, p. 679-694.</li>
<li>Alexander Koenig, Ximena Omlin, Lukas Zimmerli, Mark Sapa, Carmen Krewer, Marc Bolliger, Friedemann Müller, Robert Riener:<a href="http://shanghailectures.org/sites/default/files/uploads/JRRD_Koenig_accepted_version.pdf" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Psychological state estimation from physiological recordings during robot-assisted gait rehabilitation</a>, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 48(4), accepted for publication, 2011</li>
<li>Robert Riener: <a href="http://shanghailectures.org/sites/default/files/uploads/ICRA_2012_Paper_Riener.pdf" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">What Has to Be Known about Human Physiology to Develop Wearable Robots?</a> Workshop on Wearable Robotics, IEEE ICRA 2012, St. Paul, USA</li>
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<div class=" "><iframe title="Design Principles for Inteligent Rehabilitation Robots [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/k919dJm8rcM?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p></p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-6slides.zip" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 5" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (9.7 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 soft robotics. The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by Rolf Pfeifer and organized by me and partners around the world. &#160; Barry Trimmer: Living Machines: Soft [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, <a title="Barry Trimmer" href="http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/trimmer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Barry Trimmer</a> (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about soft robotics.</p>
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<p>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Lecture 5/10: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems II [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/I_ppBZUki2k?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Barry Trimmer: Living Machines: Soft Animals, Soft Robots and Biohybrids</strong></p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Living Machines -- Soft Animals, Soft Robots and Biohybrids [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/V4kUSjruROs?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p></p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-5slides.pdf" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 5" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (5.5 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 the Way We Think”. In the first guest lecture, Dario Floreano (EPFL) talks about biologically inspired flying robots, and then Pascal Kaufmann (AI [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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 the Way We Think”.</p>
<p>In the first guest lecture, <a title="Dario Floreano" href="http://people.epfl.ch/dario.floreano" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Dario Floreano</a> (EPFL) talks about biologically inspired flying robots, and then <a title="Pascal Kaufmann" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/kpascal/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Pascal Kaufmann</a> (AI Lab, UZH) gives a short overview of the “Roboy” project.</p>
<p><span id="more-9029"></span></p>
<p>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Lecture 4/10: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems I [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XYrZZ2O8dkc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>Dario Floreano: Bio-inspired Flying Robots</strong><br />
Most autonomous robots operate on the ground, essentially living in 2 dimensions. Taking robots into the 3rd dimension offers new opportunities, such as performing exploration of rough terrain with small and inexpensive devices and gathering aerial information for monitoring, security, search-for-rescue, and mitigation of catastrophic events.</p>
<p>However, there are several novel scientific and technological challenges in perception, control, materials, and morphologies that need to be addressed. In this talk, Dario Floreano presents the long-term vision, approach, and results obtained so far to let robots live in the 3rd dimension. Taking inspiration from nature, he starts by describing how robots could take off the ground by jumping and gliding. He then moves on to autonomous flight in cluttered environments and on the issue of perception and control for small flying systems in indoor environments. This will lead to the next step resulting in outdoor flying robots that can autonomously regulate altitude, steering, and landing using only perceptual cues. He then expands the perspective by describing how multiple robots could fly in swarm formation in outdoor environments and how these achievements could possibly lead to fleets of personal aerial vehicles in the not-so-far future. Finally, he closes the talk by going back indoor with current work on radically new concepts of flying robots that collaborate with teams of terrestrial and climbing robots and of flying robots designed to survive and even exploit collisions. Throughout the talk, Dario Floreano also emphasize bi-directional links between biology as a source of inspiration and robotics as a novel method to explore biological questions.</p>
<ul>
<li>J.-C. Zufferey, A. Beyeler and D. Floreano. Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power, in International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107-117, 2010.</li>
<li>M. Kovac, M. Schlegel, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 28, num. 3, p. 295-306, 2010.</li>
<li>S. Hauert, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21-32, 2009.</li>
</ul>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Bio-inspired Flying Robots [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7EgCf72wPjw?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Pascal Kaufmann: Roboy</strong></p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Roboy 2013 -- A new generation of humanoid robots [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sNk9VICSNMU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p></p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-4slides.pdf" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 4" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (7.1 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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, and Alex Waibel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany/Carnegie Mellon University, USA) who demonstrates a live lecture translation system. The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>In this lecture Rolf Pfeifer presents some first steps toward a “theory of intelligence”., followed by guest lectures by <a title="Vincent C. Müller" href="http://www.sophia.de/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Vincent C. Müller</a> (Anatolia College, Greece) on computers and cognition, and <a title="Alex Waibel" href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ahw/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Alex Waibel</a> (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany/Carnegie Mellon University, USA) who demonstrates a live lecture translation system.</p>
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<p>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Lecture 3/10: Towards a Theory of Intelligence [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7MUEko8R--Q?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>Vincent C Müller: </strong><strong>Computers Can Do Almost Nothing – Except Cognition (Perhaps)</strong></p>
<p>The basic idea of classical cognitive science and classical AI is that if the brain is a computer then we could just reproduce brain function on different hardware. The assumption that this function (cognition) is computing has been much criticized; I propose to assume it is true and to see what would follow.</p>
<p>Let us take it as definitional that computing is ‘multiply realizable’: Strictly the same computing procedure can be realized on different hardware. (This is true if computing is understood as digital algorithmic procedures, in the sense of Church and Turing.) But in multiple realizations only the syntactic computational properties are retained from one realization to the other, while the physical and semantic properties may or may not be. So, even if the brain is indeed a computer, realizing it in different hardware might not have the desired effects because the hardware-dependent effects are not computational: Just computing can’t even switch on a red light; a computer model of an apple tree will not produce apples. But perhaps cognition is different. Is cognition one the properties that are retained in different realizations?</p>
<p>References:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sandberg, Anders (2013), ‘<a href="http://shanghailectures.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2013_Sandberg_Brain-Simulation_34.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Feasibility of whole brain emulation</a>’, in Vincent C. Müller (ed.), Theory and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (SAPERE; Berlin: Springer), 251-64.</li>
<li>Searle, John R. (1980), ‘<a href="http://cogprints.org/7150/1/10.1.1.83.5248.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Minds, brains and programs</a>’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 417-57.</li>
</ul>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Computers Can Do Almost Nothing -- Except Cognition (Perhaps) [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/r-aFc7-VqU4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Alex Waibel: Bridging the Language Divide</strong></p>
<div class=" "><iframe title="Bridging the Language Divide [SHAIL 2012]" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uITGUAUBs7M?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p></p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-3slides.pdf" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 3" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (7.6 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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. Following Rolf Pfeifer’s class, there are two guest lectures by Christopher Lueg (University of Tasmania) on embodiment and information behavior and Davide Scaramuzza (AI Lab, University [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>In this 2nd part of the <a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures</a>, Rolf Pfeifer looks at the paradigm “Cognition as Computation”, show its successes and failures and justifies the need for an embodied perspective. Following Rolf Pfeifer’s class, there are two guest lectures by <a title="Christopher Lueg" href="http://www.utas.edu.au/computing-information-systems/people/individual-details/_nocache?user=clueg" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Christopher Lueg</a> (University of Tasmania) on embodiment and information behavior and <a title="Davide Scaramuzza" href="https://sites.google.com/site/scarabotix/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Davide Scaramuzza</a> (AI Lab, University of Zurich) on autonomous flying robots.</p>
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The ShanghAI Lectures are a video conference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a title="Rolf Pfeifer" href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world.</p>
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<p><strong>Christopher Lueg: Embodiment and Scaffolding Perspectives in Human Computer Interaction</strong></p>
<p>In this talk Professor Lueg will discuss how embodiment and scaffolding perspectives discussed in the ShanghAI Lectures on Natural and Artificial Intelligence can also be used to look at, and re-interpret, research topics in human computer interaction ranging from human information behavior in the real world to information interaction in online communities. In his work Professor Lueg understands human computer interaction as interaction with pretty much any kind of computer-based system ranging from desktop computers and mobile phones to microwave ovens and parking meters.</p>
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<p><strong>Davide Scaramuzza: Vision-Based Navigation: a Ground and a Flying Robot Perspective</strong></p>
<p>Over the past two decades, we have assisted to a rapid research progress in driver-assistance systems. Some of these systems have even reached the market and have become nowadays an essential tool for driving. GPS navigation systems are probably the most popular ones. They have revolutionized the way of traveling and certainly facilitated research towards fully autonomous navigation in outdoor environments. However, there are still numerous challenges that have to be solved in view of fully autonomous navigation of cars in cluttered environments. This is especially true in urban environments, where the requirements for an autonomous system are very high.</p>
<p>Another research area that lately received a lot of interest—especially after the earthquake in Fukushima, Japan—is that of micro aerial vehicles. Flying robots have numerous advantages over ground vehicles: they can get access to environments where humans cannot get access to and, furthermore, they have much more agility than any other ground vehicle. Unfortunately, their dynamics makes them extremely difficult to control and this is particularly true in GPS-denied environments.</p>
<p>In this talk, Davide Scaramuzza will present challenges and results for both ground vehicles and flying robots, from localization in GPS-denied environments to motion estimation. He will show several experiments and real-world applications where these systems perform successfully and those where their applications is still limited by the current technology.</p>
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<p>Related links:</p>
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<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-2slides.pdf" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 2" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (6.7 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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		<title>ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 1 “Intelligence – An eternal conundrum”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Labhart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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. The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by Rolf Pfeifer and organized by me and partners around the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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.<br />
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<p>The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by <a href="http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/pfeifer/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Rolf Pfeifer</a> and organized by <a href="http://robohub.org/author/nathanlabhart/" data-wpel-link="internal">me</a> and partners around the world. The name goes back to the first lectures of the series in 2009, which were held from <a href="http://en.sjtu.edu.cn/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China</a>.</p>
<p>The lectures roughly follow Rolf Pfeifer’s book “<a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a>” (co-authored with <a href="http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~jbongard/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Josh Bongard</a>). Additional information, including information on publications and the series’ sponsors can be found at the <a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures</a> website, which also provided a support framework to bring together students and researchers in an interactive setting during the semester.</p>
<p>Starting with this post, recordings of these lectures and guest presentations given as part of the ShanghAI Lectures are now made available on Robohub.</p>
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<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://robotsassociation.org/shail/shail2012-1slides.zip" target="_blank" title="Slides SHAIL Lecture 1" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Slides (17.4 MB)</a></li>
<li><a title="ShanghAI Lectures website" href="http://shanghailectures.org" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">ShanghAI Lectures website</a></li>
<li>Book: <a title="MIT Press: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">How the Body Shapes the Way We Think</a></li>
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