Challenges and opportunities that human perception provides to robotic design This is an essay that I wrote for a course in 2015. Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley Introduction In this essay I will describe some aspects of human perception and cognition which may be considered to... Continue Reading →
Recently with friends at our favourite Asian restaurant (Mchi in Ijburg - FYI the food was great and each plate left empty!), we encountered some Bellabots working as assistants to the restaurant staff. I was with my buddy Vikram Radhakrishnan, who is also crazy about robots and my partner Renze de Vries, who has made... Continue Reading →
I recently subscribed to the Royal Institute lecture series, and when I am able to catch some of the lectures, the content and moderation is always incredibly good. You can watch the Royal Institute's videos on Science here on Youtube. Go to their website to watch some of these talks live. Lately, I saw an... Continue Reading →
Soft launch done and dusted Well, its finally come and gone, my first two workshops for Halloween 2020! My two main goals were that everyone have fun and learn something, and we succeeded on both accounts. Mixing it up We had a variety of participants in both groups, in all age groups, and all abilities... Continue Reading →
Well this is an exciting time for RoboRabbit-Labs! The first electro-craft workshops will be happening this week, with a Halloween theme! Why Halloween? Well 2020 has been a challenging and even dark year for many. With the full moon on Halloween this year, its probably a good time to sweep out the old and usher... Continue Reading →
ERF2019 took place at the Marriott hotel in Bucharest. As usual, the event was divided into workshops and an exhibition area with different robot-related organisations represented, including European organisations, robot and parts manufacturers, technology hubs, universities and governmental institutions. Check out my post on ERF2017 here. The main topics for this year included: Robotics and... Continue Reading →
This past weekend, Vikram Radhakrishnan, Lukas Jelinek and myself, Thosha Moodley got together to try some robot app prototyping on the Anki Vector. The Vector is an adorable robot created by Anki, and a follow up to their first model, Cozmo. We are using it to produce a robot app prototype as a proof of... Continue Reading →
On 4 October 2018 I attended the Launch of WEtalk Women in AI Amsterdam at TQ. The meetup was organised by the vivacious Evgenia Logunova, the WAI Amsterdam ambassador. There were three main parts to the launch - an address by Carolyn Lair, co-founder of WAI, a description on the AI landscape by Dr. Carly E. Howard, and... Continue Reading →
The first usecase that I am focusing on is cleaning the bathroom counter and sink. To prove that this would work, I used a little motor with a disc on the end, covered in cleaning wipes. The motor turned the cleaning pad to clean a surface. Next I designed a basic schematic of a... Continue Reading →
