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Compliance: trending topic at the Humanoids 2011

// November 7th, 2011 // No Comments » // Artificial Intelligence, Research, Work

Compliant robot: a robot with the ability to tolerate and compensate for misaligned parts. Or otherwise stated, the ability of the robot to gracefully absorve an external force that tries to modify its position. At the last Humanoids conference (www.humanoids2011.org) everybody was talking about how to control a compliant arm, how to build compliant legs [...]

Organising a Humanoid Robot Navigation Workshop

// September 24th, 2011 // No Comments » // Research, Work

The next 26th October 2011 the Humanoids conference will be held in Bled, Slovenia. This is a conference about the current status of humanoid robots. In this conference, together with some colleagues, I am organising a workshop about the current problems that humanoid robots have when moving around in human environments. The workshop is entitled [...]

Lessons I learned from my TEDx talk

// September 3rd, 2011 // 3 Comments » // Talks

I really enjoyed the experience of talking at TEDx. It was a lot of work, a lot of stress and, why not, a lot of fun. I had to prepare, rehearse, analyze feedback, and repeat the process again and again. Finally, the delivery was done, and the result was what it was. Now it is [...]

New website 2.0

// August 23rd, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Finally the new version of my website is up and running. A complete change from old html technology to full 2.0 webstyle has been made. From here, you can now follow my WordPress blog publications on a regular basis, have quick and short updates through my posts on Twitter, look at the added videos on [...]

Invited talk at TEDx Barcelona

// June 19th, 2011 // No Comments » // Talks

Next July the 4th of 2011 I will give a popular science talk about robots in the TEDx Barcelona event. It will be a 10 minutes talk about the past, the present, and the future of robots in our lives. Nothing technical, understandable and enjoyable for all.

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