The School of Robotics will run a free workshop in the frame of Brescia Supernova Festival. In collaboration with la Scuola Publishing House, Scuola di Robotica will inyroduce you to the use of Scratch 2.0 software. Read more
The Municipality of Carpi and the Castello dei Ragazzi (The Castle of Kids) are organizing a two days of plays with robotics kits and many technological devices. School of Robotics will manage conferences, demos, laboratories, and many many robotics experiences. Read more
School of Robotics Emanuele Micheli will be attending the inspirational event organized by Sardinian region in collaboratiomn with Intel Education. Micheli's event theme is the education to reality, or the education THROUGH reality. Read more
Palazzo Reale, TEDxNapoli - where x = independently organized TED event. At TEDxNapoli event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. Robotics scientist Bruno Siciliano will be speaking at TEDxNapoli with a talk on robotics, "Robots and Humans", and Roboethics. Read more
The return of the machinery question. After many false starts, artificial intelligence has taken off. Will it cause mass unemployment or even destroy mankind? History can provide some helpful clues, says Tom Standage. There is something familiar about fears that new machines will take everyone’s jobs, benefiting only a select few and upending society. Read more
The School of Robotics Honorary President, Gianmarco Veruggio, is key note Speaker at CLAWAR conference with a talk on "Roboethics - Focus on Drones". The presentation, after an introduction on Roboethics, will outline the new issues posed by the increasing spread of the use of drones beyond the scope of their traditional employments for research and military aims. Read more
The aim of Open Roberta is to lower the barriers of programming for kids, teachers, and schools and to set up a open source community. Open Roberta is part of the Fraunhofer Initiative “Roberta – Learning with Robots” (www.roberta-home.de). Open Roberta and School of Robotics are carrying on their almost ten-year collaboration. Read more
The School of Robotics, thanks to the funding by Costa Crociere Foundation is starting a project where the plastics recovered frtom the sea and the beaches will be used to produce the spools for 3D printers. These will procude in turn educational kits inspired by the protection of the ocean. Read more
Automatica’s exhibitors were trumpeting Industry 4.0. Is this the turning point for robotics? Industry 4.0 – the fourth industrial revolution – was the main theme at the largest robot and automation fair in the world, Germany’s AUTOMATICA, which took place in Munich throughout last week. But what exactly is Industry 4.0 and how do developers and manufacturers big and small believe it will revolutionise production? Read more
The second edition of this handbook provides a state-of-the-art cover view on the various aspects in the rapidly developing field of robotics. Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The credible prospect of practical robots among humans is the result of the scientific endeavour of a half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline. Read more
