Year: 2019

The EU Horizon 2020 programma Trimbot is in its final stage. The program made a video which summerizes the contributions of the partners. A summary of the project and the UvA contribution is published at the faculty’s newssite.

This week the lab is dedicated on with a television recording how you could stear a drone with a brain-computer interface.   The result can be found at Klaas Kan Alles at YouTube:

The Universiteit van Nederland will start with our Intelligent Robotics Lab in a series of podcast on what really happens in scientific labs. The first podcast is scheduled for the first week of July, when the Dutch Nao Team is playing their games at RoboCup in Sydney. Hopefully that will mean a lot of additional…

On the student conference exec(ut) Arnoud Visser have given a presentation on rescue robots. The  Arnoud was already spotted in the aftermovie:      

On Tuesday April 2nd, the Faculty’s Social Committee will display the Science Fiction movie Ex Machina. After the movie Arnoud Visser will give a short presentation of what we can really expect in the future of the combination of AI and Robotics, followed by a discussion on the implications.

This year the students could follow the Behavior-Based Robotics lectures at their own leasure, because they were recorded on forehand. See for the rational of this approach the interview by our Teaching and Learning Centre. The lectures themselves are publicly available at this Youtube channel.

The Dutch Nao Team is qualified as one of the 24 teams worldwide to compete in the RoboCup Soccer Standard  Platform League. The list of competitors can be found at the RoboCup website.