Genoa, ABCD 2011. On November 16th, the Ligurian Office of the Italian Ministry of Education and the School of Robotics have invited Donatella Merlo to hold a Lecture about "GeoGeobra and Educational Robotics" at the 2011 edition of the Fair of Technology in Education (ABCD 2011, Genoa, 16-18 of November). Here her related article. (Leggi tutto)

Tullia Urschitz (teacher of Math, Science and ICT in Fumane, Verona) was invited by the Ligurian Regional Office of the Ministry of Education and by the School of Robotics to lecture at ABCD 2011, the National Fair of Educational Technologies. Her talk was devoted to the topics of "Educational Robotics and the use of the Interactive Whiteboard". Here the summary of her intervention (in Italian). (Leggi tutto)

Stara Zagora (Bulgaria), 22-24 of September, 2011. During the international conference on "The Key Competencies in Education. Strategies and Practices", and in the frame of the KeyTTT European project, Europole Network and School of Robotics are introducing their paper on educational robotics as a fruitful methodology feeding pupils' competencies. (Leggi tutto)

Fondazione Giannino Bassetti's Tommaso Correale Santacroce interviews Fiorella Operto for FondazioneBassetti.org abut the recently signed National Agreement on Educational Robotics. (Leggi tutto)

The current issue (Vol. 18, n. 1, March 2011) includes 57 pages devoted to the Special Issue on Robot ethics. Editors: Gianmarco Veruggio, Jorge Solis, and Machiel Van der Loos. (Leggi tutto)

In this press club you can find some of the articles covering Raccontare i robot 2011, the annual event organized by School of Robotics. In a feature in Il Secolo XIX, Gianmarco Veruggio, founder of School of robotics, reports how the famous logo of the School of Robotics was born. (Leggi tutto)

An exhaustive and rich paper by Immacolata Nappi (Hospital School G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy) on her experiences on educational robotics. (Italian) (Leggi tutto)

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 (Leggi tutto)

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he January 2007 issue of Le Scienze, the Italian edition of Scientific American, features the article by Microsoft’s Chairman, Bill Gates, titled “A robot in every home”, in which he lays the robotic future out. It is the Italian version of a cover story of January's Scientific American magazine, which has a C-3PO type robot on the cover. It is quite interesting and no coincidence that, beside Gates’feature, the Italian Le Scienze hosts a two pages article by Gianmarco Veruggio on he last news a (Leggi tutto)