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ShanghAI Lectures 2009
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 ...
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: 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: Wenwei Yu “A Simulation Study on Reflexive Responses during Walking”
Nathan Labhart
30 Jan 2014
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Sukhan Lee “Cognitive Recognition for Service Robots”
Nathan Labhart
23 Jan 2014
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,...
ShanghAI Lectures: Alois Knoll, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani “Joint-Action Science and Technology”
Nathan Labhart
16 Jan 2014
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Samia Nefti-Mezziani “Non-rational Particle Swarm Optimization”
Nathan Labhart
09 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-03
Among the evolutionary algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) represents an optimization method where individuals, called particles, collabora...
ShanghAI Lectures: Christopher Lueg “Scaffolding & Embodiment: Perspectives in Human Computer Interaction”
Nathan Labhart
02 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-03
In this talk Professor Lueg will discuss how embodiment and scaffolding perspectives discussed in the ShanghAI Lectures on Natural and Artificial Int...
ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and Control of Mobile Robot Networks”
Nathan Labhart
27 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-26
Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which can achieve...
ShanghAI Lectures: Eugen Elmiger “Drives for Intelligent Robots”
Nathan Labhart
19 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-19
In this guest lecture, Eugen Elmiger from maxon motor ag, Sachseln, Switzerland, gives an overview of the precision motors his company produces, and ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Resilient Machines”
Nathan Labhart
12 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-19
If the body plays a central role in intelligence, as a roboticist, how do we choose an appropriate body for our robot? Evolutionary robotics allows u...
ShanghAI Lectures: Hisato Kobayashi “AI-ish approach for complicated robot control”
Nathan Labhart
05 Dec 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
If we try to describe any kinds of robot by mathematical models, they must be very complicated equations. Even, such robotic systems are categorized ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”
Nathan Labhart
28 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
"It has increasingly been realized that some of the key characteristics underlying real-world complex dynamical systems (such as economical, financia...
ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Compliant Body as a Source of Intelligence”
Nathan Labhart
21 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05
Animals and Humans utilize their compliance: muscular system and soft skin. The compliance plays an important role to exhibit intelligent behavior. T...
ShanghAI Lectures: SAYA/Hiroshi Kobayashi “Hello, my name is SAYA”
Nathan Labhart
14 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05
In this guest lecture, SAYA, the robotic teacher from Japan, introduces herself and talks about the Tokyo University of Science, where she was const...
ShanghAI Lectures: Brian David Johnson “Brain Machines: Robots, Free Will and Science Fiction Prototypes”
Nathan Labhart
08 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-10-29
How can science fiction help prototype emerging science theory and experimentation? Expanding on the framework of consumer experience architecture, t...
ShanghAI Lectures: Auke Ijspeert “Controlling the Locomotion of Robots Using Central Pattern Generator Models”
Nathan Labhart
01 Nov 2013
Animal locomotion control is in a large part based on central pattern generators (CPGs), which are neural networks capable of producing complex rhythmic patterns while being activated and modulated by...
ShanghAI Lectures: Bernard Horan “Mixing real and virtual worlds in education”
Nathan Labhart
24 Oct 2013
Bernard Horan presents an overview of a trial undertaken at the University of Essex in the use of a mixed-reality teaching environment. The lecture includes a summary of the motivations for mixed real...
ShanghAI Lectures: Lutz Jäncke “On the neuropsychology of avatars”
Nathan Labhart
17 Oct 2013
The ShanghAI lectures have brought us a treasure trove of guest lectures by experts in robotics. You can find the whole series from 2012 here. Now, we're bringing you the guest lectures you haven't ye...
