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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.

Fredrik Jansson en Jaap Kaandorp from the Computational Science Lab published their research on swarm behavior in Science Robotics. More information (in Dutch) at UvA news.

Theo Gevers announced that the UvA is one of the partners of the NWO-TTW FlexCRAFT programme. New technology for robotics The FlexCRAFT programme is developing new robotics for the automated harvesting of tomatoes, the processing and packaging of chicken products and the packaging of bags of crisps and boxes of biscuits into boxes of different sizes.…

Inspired by the puppy room at the University Library, there is now also a robot dog cuddling session in the Intelligent Robotics Lab, especially for Artificial Intelligence students. Release your stress in the exam period by playing with our Aibo robot dog Shakey. The news was picked up our university press, which accompanied  their post…

The national television made an AI-special, including a visit to theUniversity of Amsterdam. The Dutch Nao Team was at that training the new team-members, so the Intelligent Robotics Lab was fully operational.

The Dutch Nao Team was invited to play a number of demonstration games against the current World Champion: Nao Team HWTK from Leipzig. They will play at the Herbstmesse in Dornbirn, so they can expect a lot of audience.