ShanghAI Lectures

Lecture hall at KIT

Students following the lectures at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Rolf Pfeifer in Shanghai

Warming up for the ShanghAI Lectures 2009 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Lecture hall at RSUH (Moscow, Russia)

Students attending lectures in 2010 at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Lecture hall in Zürich

Students attending the ShanghAI Lectures at the University of Zürich, Switzerland

Videoconference and Recording

Equipment in the lecture hall at the University of Zürich, Switzerland

Getting ready at KIT

Lecture hall at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology -- waiting for the students

The first ShanghAI Lecture

Thierry Bücheler, project manager of the ShanghAI Lectures in 2009, opens the very first lecture

Discussion Session in Wonderland

Students gather as avatars in the 3-dimensional virtual environment (2010)

ShanghAI Lectures in Osaka

Students attending the ShanghAI Lectures 2011 at Osaka University, Japan

Russian State University for the Humanities

The first lecture being presented to the audience in 2010

News

Grades for students in Zürich

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Thu, 2013-02-07 11:42

To the students in Zürich who took the final exam (UZH and ETH): We have sent the grades to the respective secretaries, you should receive them in a few days.

We apologize for the SPAM

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Sat, 2012-12-22 20:03

It seems someone registered a fake profile and sent SPAM messages to random people as "love baby". Please ignore that message. We apologize for the inconvenience (but we're honored that someone thinks the ShanghAI Lectures community is important enough to receive SPAM…) :-)

Final exam: Contents

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Tue, 2012-12-18 16:56

For those students who take the final exam (in Zürich and Budapest), we have updated the list of relevant materials here (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

Lecture 10: recordings available

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Thu, 2012-12-13 19:32

The recordings of Lecture 10, as well as the guest presentations by Tamás Haidegger, Jamie Paik, and Aude Billard, are now available from the Lectures page and in the guest lecture repository

Robots on Tour: Helpers wanted

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Wed, 2012-12-12 00:40

Please check here for more information.

EmbedIT competition: Community voting

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Tue, 2012-12-11 16:02

[Update: voting is closed – you can still download the videos here] We are excited about the EmbedIT competition results – thanks to all students contributing to this competition, you did amazing work! The fastest robot has already been determined, but now we ask you, the community, to vote for the most creative one. Please value originality and creativity of the body shape and the locomotion concept.

Lecture 10 on 13 December 2012

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Tue, 2012-12-11 10:51

The last lecture this year will take place on Thursday 13 December 2012. After a wrap-up of the lecture series and three guest presentations we will announce the winners of the NAO and EmbedIT competitions. Note that Lecture 10 is expected to last for almost 3 hours!

Lecture 9: recordings available

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Thu, 2012-12-06 14:42

The recordings of Lecture 9, as well as the guest presentations by Ning Lan and Roland Siegwart, are now available from the Lectures page and in the guest lecture repository.

Deadline for NAO Competition on 5 December

Submitted by Tobias Klauser on Tue, 2012-12-04 10:02

The NAO competition will end tomorrow, Wednesday 5 December 23:59 CET (UTC+1). Please upload your solutions (Choregraphe solution file, Webots files, video of the performance in simulation/on the real robot and the documentation) as one single ZIP file to https://dropfiles.uzh.ch/dropzone/93f6cfc0 until then. Please clearly state in the filename and in the documentation from which site the solution is.

Lecture 8: recordings available

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Thu, 2012-11-29 12:14

The recordings of Lecture 8, as well as the guest presentations by Vera Zabotkina and José del R. Millán, are now available from the Lectures page and in the guest lecture repository.
Please remember to finish the last group assignment, exercise 5, by Monday 23:59 CET.

Lecture 7: recordings available

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Thu, 2012-11-22 14:27

The recordings of Lecture 7, as well as the guest presentation by István Harmati, are now available from the Lectures page and in the guest lecture repository. Don't miss the TEDxAthens 2011 talk by Nikolaos Mavridis!

Last exercise on 22 November

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Wed, 2012-11-21 14:14

The last exercise will be issued on 22 November. Please remember that this is again a group exercise, i.e., all members of a Study Group are expected to work on the assignment. There have been some complaints from students that their group members didn't contribute anything. This is not an acceptable behavior in team work!

Problems with changing groups

Submitted by Tobias Klauser on Thu, 2012-11-15 18:52

The have been some reports of troubles leaving study groups for exercise 4. If you want to change groups for exercise 5, make sure you leave the group via the "Leave Study Group" link on your study group page until 20 November 23:59 (CET). If you didn't end up in a new group by 22 November 2012 08:00 (CET), please send an e-mail to tobias.klauser@uzh.ch

Lecture 6: recordings available

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Thu, 2012-11-15 14:40

The recordings of Lecture 6, as well as the guest presentations by Francesco Mondada and Robert Riener, are now available from the Lectures page and in the guest lecture repository.

Lecture 5: recordings available

Submitted by Nathan Labhart on Thu, 2012-11-01 17:17

The recording of Lecture 5 is now available on the Lectures page, as is the guest presentation by Barry Trimmer.

Goals of the ShanghAI Lectures

The ShanghAI Lectures project aims at

making education and knowledge on cutting-edge scientific topics accessible to everyone
exploring novel methods of knowledge transfer
building a sustainable community of students and researchers in the area of Embodied Intelligence
overcoming the complexity of a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary learning context
bringing global teaching to a new level

These lectures about Natural and Artificial Intelligence are held via videoconference at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, the University of Salford/MediaCityUK in the United Kingdom, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and about 12 other universities around the globe. Students from the participating universities work together on the exercises, using a powerful robotics simulator software.

Partner Sites 2012

Weekly participants

Guest lecture sites

Anatolia College/ACT, Thessaloniki, Greece
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland
Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA