Seminars
- Course 2021/22
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics
The ShanghAI Lectures
- Course 2020/21
The ShanghAI Lectures 2020
Classrooms: Online
Schedule: Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:00 (8 Thursdays) from 22 October to 17 December 2020
ECTS: 6 credits
Summary:
While in the classical approach “intelligence” was viewed essentially as information processing taking place in the brain, more recently the insight that the interaction with the environment is of central importance is gaining increasing acceptance. This has led to the metaphor of embodiment, i.e. that intelligence is always a property of an entire organism. This idea has far reaching implications and often leads to surprising insights. The implications of an embodied view on intelligence are not only of a scientific nature but lead to a completely different way of how we view ourselves and the world around us. Examples and illustrations will be taken from humans, animals, and engineering (robotics in particular) and are intended to demonstrate that things can always be seen differently from what we would normally expect.
Using the method of “understanding by building”, the lectures provide a set of design principles that on the one hand enable a better understanding of biological systems, and on the other provide heuristics for how to design artificial ones, in particular robots.
The argument is based largely on the notions of time scales, complex dynamical systems, self-organization, and emergence. The theoretical ideas will be illustrated with many examples and case studies from academia and the private sector, and there will be hands-on exercises with computer simulations and real robots (depending on the respective university's participation mode).
This lecture series, consisting of 8 videoconference sessions of one hour and a half (including a short break), provides a systematic introduction to the concept of embodiment (“Embodied Intelligence”). Each lecture will include one or two guest talks from global level researcher at the edge of research in Robotics/AI and Cognitive Sciences.
The ShanghAI Lectures 2020 will take place from October 22nd to December 17th, 2020. These lectures about Natural and Artificial Intelligence will be held at the University Carlos III of Madrid, University of Zurich, Switzerland, the Scuola Superiore S'Anna, Pisa, Italy and the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and broadcast via videoconference to Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, Osaka University in Japan, and a number of universities across the planet. The lectures are complemented by teamwork exercises; teams consist of three to five students from different universities.
Underlying goals of the ShanghAI Lectures project:
- Make education and knowledge on cutting-edge scientific topics accessible to everyone.
- Explore novel methods of knowledge transfer.
- Build a sustainable community of students and researchers in the area of Embodied Intelligence.
- Overcome the complexity of a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary learning context bring global teaching to a new level.
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- Course 2019/20
Herramientas, metodologías y métricas para impulsar tu investigación
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics
The ShanghAI Lectures 2019
- Course 2018/19
Screw Theory for Robotics
IROS2018. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
- Course 2017/18
Introducción a Robot Operating System (ROS) - 2º Cuatrimestre
Screw Theory for Robotics
Introducción a Robot Operating System (ROS)
The ShanghAI Lectures 2017