Robotica 2011, FieraMilano Rho, 16-19 November: Come to visit School of Robotics!
ROBOTICA 2011, the third edition of the Italian fair dedicated to humanoid and service robotics which will take place from 16 to 19 November at Fiera Milano Rho, is looking to be confirmed as the reference event for the entire sector. School of Robotics is there. Come to visit us! Read more
Genoa floods: Thanks for your togetherness
The Genoa based people of School of Robotics is in good shape. The floods have badly damaged the City's eastern area. School of Robotics people here in Genoa have offered their help to the flood victims. We thank the many friends who have expressed their togetherness. Read more
Torino, Novembre 5 - December 18: An extraordinary exhibit of Japanese mechanical dolls.
Around twenty mechanical dolls from Japan’s artistic and craftsmanship tradition displayed for the first time in Italia. The word 'Karakuri' means a mechanical device to tease, trick, or take a person by surprise. It implies hidden magic, or an element of mystery. In Japanese "Ningyo" is written as two separate characters, meaning person and shape. It loosely translates as puppet, but can also be seen in the context of doll or even effigy. Read more
Torino, 25-28 ottobre, Scuola di Robotica a VIEW Conference.
VIEW Conference – Italy’s leading digital media conference featuring computer graphics inventers, practitioners, and visionaries gathering in Italy for four days of inspirational talks, extraordinary educational workshops, and astounding visual and audio experiences. School of Robotics is been invited - as Media Partner - to attend, on its stand and with its laboratories. Read more
School of Robotics, Italian Coodinator of the Euroopean Robotics Week
The European Robotics Week, 28th of November – 4th of December 2011, offers one week of various robotics related activities across Europe for the general public, highlighting growing importance of robotics in a wide variety of application areas. The Week aims at inspiring technology education in students of all ages to pursue careers in STEM-related fields, i.e. science, technology, engineering and math. Read more
Bruno Siciliano interviewed by scientific journalist Pietro Greco in his book, "Galilei' s grandchildren"
Bruno Siciliano, Professor of Automatica at the University "Federico II", Naples, Italy, and a member of the School of Robotics' Scientific Committee is profiled as one of the seven "grandchildren" of the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, in seven different interviews by scientific journalist Pietro Greco. The book is "Galilei's grandchildren" (Baldini Castoldi Dalai). Read more
Pinocchio 2.0. From kindergarten to teen, educational continuity for technoscience
In 2008, Italian teachers and educational experts uploaded records from many educational robotics experiences in a new Content Management System called "Pinocchio 2.0", inspired by fictional character that firstly appeared in 1881 in a book by Carlo Collodi. Carved from a piece of pine, Pinocchio was created as a wooden puppet, but dreamt of becoming a real boy. For the kids of the world, this fictional puppet of the cartoon movie recalls the idea of the robot. Read more
Fiorella Operto interviewed by Tommaso Correale for FondazioneBassetti.org
Fondazione Giannino Bassetti's Tommaso Correale Santacroce interviews Fiorella Operto for FondazioneBassetti.org abut the recently signed National Agreement on Educational Robotics. Read more