The Italian city of Cremona dedicateds an extraordinary exhibit to its fellow citizen Janello Torriani. Less famous than Leonardo da Vinci, Janello Torrian was not less ingenious in inventing and manufacturing all kind of mechanisms. The exhibit displays many of Torriani'inventions. Read more
The film, produced with the Unity engine by Unity’s Demo Team, shows just how amazing and realistic games and digital experiences can look. Unity also created custom tools for volumetric fog and motion blur, and a custom transparency shader. Read more
The Honorary Presidente of the School of Robotics will be speaking at the first of the conferences devoted to Janello Torriani, on October 20th 2016. The conference program is organized by the Alumni Association "gli ex Aselli", of the Aselli High School. Veruggio will be speaking about "Robotics. A new Science for an ancient dream". Read more
Ada Lovelace Day, Tuesday 11 October 2016. Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM. Read more
Hosted by CampuStore Area at Maker Fair Rome 2016, School of Robotics teachers and tutors will be carrying out workshops on methodologies and tools for educational robotics. One workshop deals on BYOR kit for sustaining Pogramming and Electronics; another around the application of 3D printings for schools; many others laboratories interesting educational robotics kits. Read more
During the FIRST® LEGO® League challenge 2016 "Animal Allies" teams will look into the eyes of our "Animal Allies". What might become possible when we learn to help each other? From Aug 30th, 2016 the detailed missions for the FLL Robot-Game & FLL Research Project will be published on our website. In the US, registration will be open between Apr 4th and Oct 14th, 2016. Read more
Roboethical experts are invited to comment on recente Westworld series script where human visitors have the change to kill, rape and abuse android robots. Roboethics inventor Gianmarco Veruggio said that this attitude of expressing violent behaviours is already present in the "kill everyone" videogames. Philosopher Patrick Lin about sex robots. Read more
The Springer Handbook of Robotics second edition (2016) will be officially presented at IROS 2016. The 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016) will be held in Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14, 2016, at Daejeon Convention Center (DCC). Read more
School of Robotics Honorary President, Gianmarco Veruggio will be speaking at TEDxCNR in Roma, on October 8th 2016. He will elaborate on his vision of the future of robotics, the Roboethical issues, and the challenges facing the new generation of roboticists. Read more
During the Science Festival 2016 in Genoa, the School of Robotics will be organizing two Laboratories which will be lasting the whole Festival lenght. One is inspired by Sherlock (Holmes, of course!), where participants will have to solve some puzzles and will be discovering that the blameworthy is.. a robot! The other, for kids from 4 to 7, pivots around the creation of artistic figurines inspired by machines. Read more
