The Next Technological Revolution
Many experts agree that, after the Internet, the next technological revolution will be in robotics. The IFR (International Federation of Robotics) calculates that this market will expand by 4,2% yearly until 2010, surpassing the 4.000 million Euros invested.
If the Internet has substantially modified the ways of communication and its influence is felt in almost all areas of daily life, the arrival of robots advances a reinterpretation of the models and numerous fields; from the industrial productive systems to the medical practices or the services sector.
Robots build cars, clean floors, carry out surgical operations, and even introduce the biscuits that we eat in an orderly form into boxes. CampusBot is the place for all those amazing artefacts and mobile creatures that are becoming more and more popular. Experts, professionals and robotic enthusiasts who dedicate their lives to bringing those dream machines to life, will all be at Campus Party.
Coordinated by Silvain Calinon (Italy), Ángel Hernández and José Jaime Ariza (ARDE-Spain).
Conference • 04/15/2010 - 12.00h
Body and Mind of a Humanoid
youtube Giorgio Metta (Italy), from the University of Genova (Lira-Lab), will talk to us about Icub, a humanoid robot developed as a result of the team project RobotCub (http://www.robotcub.org) backed by the European Commission through the dE5 Unit of IST Robotic Cognitive Systems. Icub has been designed with the objective of studying human cognition and contains a sophisticated set of sensors that facilitate vision, touch, perception, hearing, as well as a large number of drivers (53) that provide motor abilities. It is an open project “open source” to create a critical mass of investigation groups that contribute with their ideas and algorithms to advancing human knowledge and cognition.
Conference • 04/15/2010 - 15.00h
Automating the Acting Profession
Technology has been the actors friend for many years. From the creation of amphitheatres to the blu-ray disc, engineers continually find new ways to deliver the story. But what about automating the actors themselves? In fact this is already common place, computer generated imagery often replaces actors in today's films. RoboThespian extends this to the physical world, a real robot that you can watch and interact with, appearing 'live' for its audience. Will Jackson of Engineered Arts Ltd demonstrates the technology, and discusses the appeal of watching robots perform.
Conference • 04/16/2010 - 11.00h
2010 and C3PO Still Doesn´t Exist
Youtube Few machines have caused a sophisticated imagery such as robots. Literature and science fiction movies are filled with human-looking machines capable of moving freely, intelligently reason and even feel emotions. However, as the first decade of the twenty-first century is about to finish, we still don´t find these types of robots in our houses or walking the streets. Ricardo Tellez, research engineer on artificial intelligence and one of the Reem B project leaders (robot exhibited at Future Campus) will discuss the current state of humanoid robotics anticipating what to expect in the near future.
