Deutschlandfunk has made a contribution on ethical issues in the development of social robots. Also presented were navel robotics and the research project VIVA. Besides me, Arne Manzeschke, Professor of Anthropology and Ethics, was also interviewed. As part of the research project, we held a workshop on ethical issues. You […]
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The first working prototype!
Robot development is a complex matter. Many different components of hardware and software form a complex system, which gives a meaningful whole only in the interaction. How can one nevertheless test partial components and their interaction at an early stage in agile development? Prototyping, prototyping, prototyping! And with a social […]
navel robotics on Munich Creative Business Week
The agency Star (strategy, design, engineering and marketing services) has invited us to give a lecture at the MCBW. Wolfgang Klein from Star started with a super lecture on “Our Non-Human Colleagues – Designing for AI and Cobots”. We showed the connection between social robotics and UX design and asked […]
VIVA Team at Milestone 1
We are very excited that we have reached our first milestone of the research project very successfully. There are basic concepts for all important components and the software architecture. Most hardware components are chosen. The software frameworks are integrated in a first prototype. In a short time you will see […]
Our robot learns to understand space.
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the computational problem of constructing a map of an environment while simultaneously keeping track of the robots location within it. We tested different 3D-sensors and SLAM algorithms combined with our NVIDIA Jetson board and reviewed the stability and performance. The shown case is based […]
Our first VIVA-Prototyp!
Everything starts small. We bought various camera sensors and screwed them together with the Nvidia Jetson Tx2 Developer Kit to test the performance of various open source tools like Open Face, Open Pose, Yolo and various SLAM kits. Our first running prototype was done.
Kickoff-Workshop of BMBF-Project VIVA
From 19 to 21 September the kickoff workshop took place with all partners in the consortium. A very good start. Everybody is fully committed. Design Thinking Workshops are great!
Start
It starts today, August 1st. Both the BMBF project starts officially today. As well as our office we move in today. Everything is very exciting. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that everything is going well.