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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”
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...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”
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...
View ArticleMaking a WALL-E robot
We take you now to sunny, southern California, where a small group of enthusiasts has constructed a very realistic, Arduino-based replica of Pixar’s WALL-E, entirely from custom-fabricated parts. The...
View ArticleRyan Calo on spyware for your brain
Ryan Calo discusses how researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a proof of concept for using commercially available brain-computer interfaces to discover private facts about today’s...
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Call for robot holiday videos!
Our robot holiday videos for 2012 were such a hit that we’ve decided to do it again this year. Send us a link (info[at]robohub.org) to your new holiday- or New-Year-themed robot video between now and...
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VIDEO Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss
The video in this article shows an automatic failsafe algorithm that allows a quadrocopter to gracefully cope with the loss of a propeller. The propeller was mounted without a nut, and thus...
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Robot Holiday Video 2013: Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
The Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich proudly presents this year’s Robotics Christmas Video: Movement at night and a stolen tree, who the heck let the robots free? They gather and cheer, could...
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DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials live broadcast
The time has come for the robots competing on the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) to make their first public appearance. The trials for the final 2014 event will take place on December 20-21, 2013 and...
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Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...
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No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?
What’s with all the quadrotors in auto advertising these days? And what do quadrotor swarms have to do with cars? Probably not much at all, but apparently associating your auto brand with...
View ArticleLive Coverage of IROS Workshop on Science Communication
Don’t miss our live coverage on “Understanding Robotics and Public Opinion: Best Practices in Public Science Communication and Online Dissemination” at the IROS conference in Tokyo. LIVE NOW November...
View ArticleNew video shows range and versatility of professional service robots
A new video promoting this year’s AUTOMATICA event in Munich offers an excellent primer in the state of professional service robotics in Europe. Check out the video here:
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Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains...
During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D’Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group’s impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing,...
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Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena have now combined the...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 1 “Intelligence – An eternal conundrum”
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...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”
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...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”
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...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems...
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...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems...
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...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 6 “Evolution: Cognition from scratch”
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...
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