ShanghAI Lectures 2010

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 Nathan Labhart

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 Nathan Labhart

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 Nathan Labhart

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

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...

03 April 2014, by Nathan Labhart

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

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...

27 March 2014, by Nathan Labhart

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 Nathan Labhart

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 Nathan Labhart

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 Nathan Labhart

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 Nathan Labhart

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

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...

14 August 2013, by Nathan Labhart