24/I/2011
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Finally I did the defense of my thesis. More than five years of research summarized in less than 40 minutes... fiuuu, nobody can ask for more!.
Still, a complete description of the thesis
as well as the whole document can be read here. |
01/VI/2010
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Our company Pal Robotics was invited to the European Campus Party 2010 event, to present our robots to the community. I was selected to represent the company giving a talk about when are we going to have humanoid robots.
The whole presentation, featuring guest star Reem-B, can be watched here. |
23/XII/2009
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I have released the pre-final version of the thesis
for total fullfilment of the doctor degree in artificial intelligence.
A complete description of the thesis
as well as the whole document can be read here. |
06/VII/2008
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Last June 12th, we finally presented to the general
public the Reem-B robot.
You can find a complete chronicle of the event here, including
pictures, videos and links. |
19/IV/2008
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We have finally released the new version of our Reem
robots: the Reem-B. Among other abilities, it has increased autonomy in
all aspects (battery, computer power and movement). It can carry heavy
loads, climb stairs, coordinate vision with grasping, and create maps
of its environment and move autonomously around it while avoiding
obstacles. Just watch a demo of those abilities in the newly released
video here.
Official presentation and press release is under preparation (more info
at www.pal-robotics.com).
Stay tuned... |
15/X/2007
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The spanish newspaper Público
published an article about the work that we doing with the Humanoid
Reem robot. You can find the scanned text here only in
Spanish. |
28/IX/2007
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The last number of the ACIA newsletter
features a short popular science paper I wrote about Social
Robotics and its impact in the future of humanity. It
describes what do we mean by social robots, shows some applications and
real robot implementations, and points toward a discussion on our
future in a world with such machines. Everything is written for the
general public. The original text in Catalan language can be found here. An English
version can be found here.
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01/VII/2007
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Our company is participating at the Robocup at Home
challenge in Atlanta. The challenge consists of a robot that has to
handle itself inside a home and perform some typical tasks of a service
robot, like follow a human, move through the environment, and bring
stuff to its owner. I am in charge of developing the navigation skills
of the robot. |
01/III/2007
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I have been hired by Pal Robotics
company for the creation of autonomous humanoid robots that will work
as service robots at home. Very interesting challenge!. |
02/I/2007
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We are organizing a special session about cognition
in embodied systems during the next International
Work-conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN2007).
Papers are accepted for this session until the
next February the 4th. More information about the special session and
instructions on how to submit can be found here.
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10/XII/2006
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Our two Aibo robots Travolta and Olivia have appeared
on the spanish TV show 'El
Hormiguero' featuring a dance that we have programmed using
the Urbi environment. The robots
played an extended version of the dance that won the Danftpunk dance contest
organized by Sony. A video of the performance can be found here.
The source code of the dance program can be found on my Aibo programming page. |
26/X/2006
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I have released a new
page containing our results on modular controllers for
autonomous robots. This page describes the two types of modularity that
we identify for modular controllers (that we call strategic
and tactical modularity), and uses a test-bed
example (the garbage collector) to show the differences between them.
Additional results are included, showing the special characteristics of
tactical modularity. Source code is also provided to test our results
on your Webots simulator. |
10/X/2006
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Tomorrow 11/X/2006 will start a exhibition about approaching
science at Palau
Robert, in Barcelona. This exhibition tries to approach
science to everyone through several spaces dedicated to special
subjects of science. I have collaborated in the creation of the Social
Robotics space, creating a video script that shows the
differents aspects involved in social robotics and its future
applications in real life. During all the exhibition, there will be a
face recognition demonstration of Aibo robots, created by my friends of
the Computational Vision
Center.
The exhibition will last until 31/VII/2007. |
08/VII/2006
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This year commemorates the 50th anniversary of the
birth of the Artificial Intelligence discipline. In order to celebrate
it, the 50th Anniversary
Summit of Artificial Intelligence will be held in Monte
Verita (Switzerland) next week. In collaboration with Oscar Vilarroya,
I will present an abstract there with our vision about AI.
On top of that, I will do a day per day chronicle of the events
happened during the summit, including pictures, videos, talks and
interviews. You can find the AI summit chronicle here. |
05/V/2006
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In 2002, Dr. and scientist Oscar Vilarroya wrote a book
in catalan language entitled 'Paraula de
robot', about Aibo research applied to the relation between
language and our cognitive capacities. His book won the European
popular science award on that year.
Due to its selling success in Catalan language, an updated version in
Spanish is being released in the next month. Dr. Vilarroya and I, we
have created together a new chapter for the Spanish edition of the
book, entitled 'La madurez de los Aibo', which
explains the new findings on autonomous robots in the last years.
We will do the official presentation of the book the 5th May at the
University of Valencia, including an Aibo demo. Everyone is free to
attend!.
Update: the presentation will take place at
the stand of the Llibreria de la Universitat de Valencia at the Fira
del Llibre, placed at the Jardins dels Vivers, on Friday 5th at 19:30.
Update-2: the presentation took place with a
high success. Read the reviews by two local newspapers (review-1, review-2) or watch the Aibo video
demo done during the presentation. |
21/IV/2006
The April 21st, I'll give my second invited talk at the Josep
Mestres i Busquets High School of Viladecans, in Barcelona. This will
be a popular science talk about autonomous robotics research in the
world. An Aibo demo will also be presented and attendants will be able
to interact with it.
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