Usually held separately, this year CEPE and Ethicomp teamed up to deliver an outstanding conference at the University of Turin. While the Ethicomp crowd is a wild and wonderful mix of philosophers, technologists, ethicists and people from all sorts of backgrounds, presenting on a variety of themes and topics, often centered around practical and quantitative […]
Continue Reading →This year’s iteration of the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET), a biennial meeting of philosophers and engineers was held in Nuermberg, a city most famous probably for the post WWII Nuremberg trials, but also very interesting for its lovely looks and architecture from centuries past. It also happens to be only a couple […]
Continue Reading →Based on Florotor’s Buzz 130, this is another 3″ based micro quadcopter. Once again, I was not happy with the design solution offered by the original kit (a massive full size 1177 cam pod) and instead opted for my own design and cam canopy. With it’s 3.5mm frame, this little one should be close to […]
Continue Reading →Different from most mini-quads, these micro-quads do not work with brushless motors that have to be driven by ESCs, but with extremely small and lightweight brushed motors. The big advantage is that these tiny copters can be build very tiny and more importantly very light, making them excellent for indoor flights on rainy days. It […]
Continue Reading →This little guy is based on the RotorX Raiju frame, which is currently the standard-setting frame for 3″ sized hexacopters. While RotorX provides both a top plate and a carbon fiber canopy solution, neither were what I was looking for. The canopy seems impractical and forces on to place much of the wiring beneath the […]
Continue Reading →For the last three years, Joscha Bach, a researcher at MIT, has given a talk at the Chaos Communication Congress and provided concise introductions into various fields of AI research as well as how these may (or may not) relate to our understanding of ourselves and the societies we live in. Because of the incredible […]
Continue Reading →This year’s conference of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), ISTAS 2015, was held close to Dublin, in the lovely 12th century heritage town of Malahide and featured a wealth of tracks, covering topics ranging from Technology and Development and Professional and Research Ethics all the way to Robot Ethics and Technological […]
Continue Reading →This first edition of the Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) conference was hosted by Solutions for the Future (SFS) at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. Its declared goal was to discuss “various social issues related to the future impact of robotics on humanity”. In their very first iteration, SIAI managed to secure […]
Continue Reading →This is my first self-build, remote controlled quadcopter. It is clearly built with racing and air-acrobatics in mind. No place for such features as self-leveling, GPS or “return to home” features. This is a bare, naked racing machine. Think not of a street-legal sports car, think of the kind of gutted, no-comfort racing cars you […]
Continue Reading →Held at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento/Ciência Viva in Lisbon, and organised by the University of Lisbon Centre of Philosophy and the Instituto Superior Técnico / Institute for Systems and Robotics and the CLAWAR Association, this first iteration of the International Conference on Robot Ethics (ICRE) can definitely be called a success. With notable keynote speakers like […]
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