Despite economic and climate crisis - Robotics will be hot in 2010+. More than 20.000+ robotics researchers and developers all over the world are doing their best to find out how to understand human intelligence, how to develop intelligent machines, how to learn from natur, how to invent new robots. This work will continue and accelerate in new robotics research programmes and projects.



2010 will be an exciting year for the global robotics community with the launch of brand new… Continue

Today my day started with "A disk read error accured". It had happened before and is not so scaring anymore. Backups in the cloud may save some reconstruction efforts, but it will take time to reinstall and reconfigure programs a.s.o.

We have become very vulnarable with all these cheap computers and components. Even robots have disks that can crash and this can have serious consequenses for us users. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. Will it work? Not at my computer just now. By the way, my… Continue

"There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This would be if every machine could work by itself, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation."

- Aristotle, from his justification of slavery in Politics

At the $20 million Keio-NUS CUTE Center in Singapore more than 50 researchers from Japan and Singapore are inventing next generation Social Networking Robots for children to communicate in multisensory ways. The first robot called Petimo is an interactive robotic toy designed to protect children from potential risks in social networks and the virtual world and it helps them to make a… Continue