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The Ethics of the Machines: The new book by Guglielmo Tamburrini
Guglielmo Tamburrini is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Naples Federico II and author of numerous publications on the ethics of robotics and artificial intelligence. With Guglielmo Tamburrini, Scuola di Robotica has been collaborating for several years, starting from that famous January 2004 when, with [...]
Provisions of the School of Robotics on Covid-19
In the last weeks, the health emergency situation caused by the spread of the Covid-19 virus has had a major impact on school life in Italy. All our educational activities in schools, the robotics contests (the NAO Challenge, the Robotics Olympics) , and all the other meetings and conferences have [...]
Call For Paper: IoT In Education – We are the Makers!
School of Robotics, partner of the European project IoT In Education - We are the Makers! is happy to invite teachers to send us an abstract outlining their work on robotics, 3D printing, internet of things. A European scientific committee will evaluate the submitted works and choose the best work [...]
Emergency robots: the usefulness of the mobile robots
Robot for disinfection,Wuhan (STR-AFP-Getty Images) In the emergence of COVID, robots are an effective means of performing various functions by preventing human interaction, thus reducing the risk of infection and improving the accuracy of analysis and evaluation. In Europe, the Danish-based company UVD Robots is marketing a mobile [...]
World-renowned medical robotics: what we can learn from this crisis
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Photo: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Erico Guizzo of IEEE Spectrum - the magazine of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - interviews Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, dean of the Institute of Medical Robotics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University: [...]
Serena Bertolucci: Enjoy art from home
In these days of forced lockdown, and with museums, art galleries and sites closed, digital technologies can help us to live an aesthetic experience even when not moving from our desk. We asked the Director of the Fondazione per la Cultura di Palazzo Ducale di Genova what she thinks about [...]
Focus on the Emergency robots
Focus on the Emergency robots In a dramatic situation like one of these days, there are many, among roboticists, robot users and robot fans, who would like to be able to help healthcare professionals and those who are doing their best in the various essential activities. The current situation is [...]
Genoa, 25th and 26th of January: new training courses for teachers
On 25th and 26th January 2020 Scuola di Robotica organizes a series of training courses for teachers within the North-West Regional Qualifications of the FIRST® LEGO® League educational contest. On January 25th and 26th, 2020, the North-West Regional Qualifications of the FIRST® LEGO® League Italia will take place in Genoa, [...]
Genoa, workshops for girls and boys at the North-West Regional Qualifications of the FIRST® LEGO® League Italy
During the FIRST® LEGO® League Italia, Regional Qualifications of the North-West (Genoa, Istituto Nautico, 25 and 26 January 2020), Scuola di Robotica organizes workshops for students. The 25th and 26th January 2020 will take place in Genoa, at the Istituto Nautico San Giorgio, in Calata Darsena, the North-West Regional Qualifications [...]
Robotic Olympics: the 120 enrolled teams are working on the projects
The 120 teams enrolled in the Robotics Olympics are in full swing for the preparation of the presentation videos of their project. The Robotics Olympics are an annual competition promoted by MIUR and managed for the 2020 edition by Scuola di Robotica. This free competition is dedicated to teams from [...]