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 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
The Italian Wister network (Women for Intelligent and Smart TERritories) has just released a free ebook outlining many "Yes WE STEM" issues in Women&Technology field. The book was edited with the support of Italian Ministry of Education, Research, and University, displaying studies by many women in the fields of communication, social sciences, science and technology. Read more
The Second face-to-face Meeting of the SlideWiki project takes place at Open University in Luton, on 9and 10th of June, 2016. SlideWiki EU Project is a Large-scale pilots for collaborative OpenCourseWare authoring, multiplatform delivery and Learning Analytics. See at https://slidewiki.eu. This project has received funding from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under grant agreement no 688095. Read more
The long-awaited Summer School of the School of Robotics is taking place in July 20 2016 at Santo Stefano of Cogorno (Genova). Open enrollment for children (7-14 years old) and adults. No specific skill needed. Read more
ECWT is now scaling up its activities and with the support of strategic partners takes the lead on CELEBRATIING EUROPEAN EXCELLENCE OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING! This with the goal to provide a new strategy, a leading community and tools to European girls to become global e-leader of the 21st century. ECWC 2016 is organised based on the model of the highly successful Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in the US and is supported by Anita Borg Institute, home of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in the US and India, and the GHC/1. Read more
We’re not talking trash – we’re cleaning it up! We’re not talking trash – we’re cleaning it up! In the 2015 FIRST® LEGO® League TRASH TREKSM Challenge, 290,000 children ages 9 to 16* from over 80 countries will explore the fascinating world of trash. From collection, to sorting, to smart production and reuse, there is more to your trash than meets the eye. Join FIRST LEGO League teams on a Trash Trek to discover the hidden (or not so hidden) world of trash! Read more
School of Robotics Emanuele Micheli's talk show at Teatro delll'Elfo in Milan on Robotics, Design, Ethics, and Education.TEDx is one of the events siding the famous TED Talk. This TEDx is organized by PWC with the headline "Keys of the future". Read more
The September issue of the Italian Magazine "Mondo Digitale" displays some articles on the ethical, legal and societal issues in ICT and robotics. Maria Carla Calzarossa's feature (Pavia University) sums up the ethical issues in an Information Society. The paper by Veruggio and Operto outlines ELS issues in the use of drones. Read more
The European Robotics Week 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. In 2015, we expect over 500 robotics events to take place in European and associate countries. Read more
