Robot Futures video

If you didn't have the opportunity to join us last December for our Robot Futures evening at the Royal Geographical Society, here is the panel discussion we had with guests Peter McOwen (Queen Mary University), Matt Jones (BERG), Dr Dan O'Hara (Weavrs), Ghislaine Boddington (body/data/space). The discussion was chaired by Olivia Solon (Wired UK).

Posted by designswarm on Thursday, 19 January, 2012 /

Robot Futures: an event at the Science Museum of London

As part of Lirec's presence in the upcoming exhibition RobotVille, we're pleased to invite you to join us on December 1st at the Science Museum for an evening of demos & a panel discussions on the nature of robots.

Tickets are free and event details are here.

Posted by designswarm on Wednesday, 9 November, 2011 /

ArtBots 2011, the Robot Talent Show

Ghent, Belgium 7-9 October 2011 – SADBot is a robot that loves the summer and long sunny days. He uses the energy from the sun to make drawings. Spectators can influence the activity level and the direction of the pen by changing the amount of sunlight. SADBot goes to sleep when it gets dark.

Posted by nik on Monday, 3 October, 2011 /

Expressing Emotions on Robotic Companions with Limited Facial Expression Capabilities

Ribeiro, T, Leite I, Kedziersski J, Oleksy A, Paiva A.  2011.  Expressing Emotions on Robotic Companions with Limited Facial Expression Capabilities. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. 6895/2011(Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Posted by TiagoRibeiro on Thursday, 29 September, 2011 /

Social Robots in Learning Environments: a Case Study of an Empathic Chess Companion

Leite, I, Pereira A, Castellano G, Mascarenhas S, Martinho C, Paiva A.  2011.  Social Robots in Learning Environments: a Case Study of an Empathic Chess Companion. Proceedings of The International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE).
Posted by iolanda on Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 /

Using Adaptive Empathic Responses to Improve Long-term Interaction with Social Robots

Leite, I.  2011.  Using Adaptive Empathic Responses to Improve Long-term Interaction with Social Robots. Proceedings of the 19th international conference on User Modeling, Adaption, and Personalization (UMAP'11).
Posted by iolanda on Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 /
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