September 2010 -- Roboethics - Report Available: "Ethical and Legal Aspects of Unmanned Systems. Interviews". The Editor is Gerhard Dabringer of the Institut für Religion und Frieden (Institute for Religion and Peace - IFR) , Wien, Austria. (Read More)

The Summer school is organized by the Agorà Social Consortium and by the School of Robotics, and goes on until September 17th (last lesson). In the previous lessons students have builded robots using the Lego NXT and WeDo kits, and also employing some parts of the Roomba vacuum clear robots, programmed with NXT-G. (Read More)

This course deals with the organizing of soccer robot's tournaments and with elements of Educational robotics. It will take place the 9th and 10th of September, 2010, in Cinisello Balsano (a city nearby Milan, Italy), and it is managed by the Polo Meccanica and the School of Robotics. It is free. (Read More)

The Special issue on Roboethics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine is planned for March 2011. Guest Editors are: Gianmarco Veruggio, Jorge Solis e Mike Van der Loos. (Read More)

The EASST_010 conference is the biennial forum of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) for contributions on topics from the range of disciplines found within science, technology and innovation studies. (Read More)

In July 2010, some collaborators to the School of Robotics have hold Educational robotics' laboratories for autistic children at the center "LPhilos" in Genoa, Italy. The success of these sessions brought through a more structured project on autism and educational robotics. It is going to start in September, 2010. (Read More)

Call for paper - International Workshop “Teaching robotics, teaching with robotics”. November 15, 2010 - co-located with SIMPAR 2010 ((Simulation, Modelling and Programming for Autonomous Robots) conference in Darmstadt, Germany. (Read More)

The School of Robotics doesn't close for the summer period. (Read More)

During ESOF 2010 In Turin, Italy, more than 75.000 people attended all the workshops, conferences, exhibitions held during the Science-in-the-City Programme. The laboratories organized in the Castello Square, by the School of Robotics were a full house every day.. and the night too! (Read More)

The mounting threat of BP’s environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico opens up many baseline questions about the model of economic development adopted in the last 50 years by most of the world’ Nations . While waiting for the results of the court of inquiry, we can draw some considerations. First of all, one question: all has been truly done to prevent an ecological tragedy of such a relevance to take place? Why not provide for a security redundancy, with, for instance, two independent ser (Read More)