ShanghAI Lectures 2010

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

Nathan Labhart 24 Apr 2014

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....

ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”

Nathan Labhart 17 Apr 2014

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...

ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”

Nathan Labhart 10 Apr 2014

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...

ShanghAI Lectures: Rafael Núñez “Where mathematics comes from’”

Nathan Labhart 03 Apr 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 In this guest lecture, Rafael Núñez from the University of California, San Diego, USA, talks about Mathematics as a paradox for embodiment and cog...

ShanghAI Lectures: Nikolaos Mavridis “Robots, language, and social networks”

Nathan Labhart 27 Mar 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 The lecture starts with a short introduction to the Interactive Robots and Media Lab and the United Arab Emirates. Then, it continues by exploring so...

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

Nathan Labhart 21 Mar 2014

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...

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

Nathan Labhart 13 Mar 2014

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...

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

Nathan Labhart 06 Mar 2014

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...

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

Nathan Labhart 27 Feb 2014

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...

ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”

Nathan Labhart 14 Aug 2013

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which however c...