Brave little robots are just monitoring Mars'terrain at the Children's Book Fair in Biologna. They are hosted at the De Amicis Library's stall! (Leggi tutto)

Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society--and ethics--change with robotics? With an essay by Gianmarco Veruggio. (Leggi tutto)

Erickson Publisher just came out with a new book "Imparare con la robotica" (Learning Through Robots). Authors: Emanuele Menegatti, Michele Moro, Francesco Sella, and Mario Perona. You'll find new exercises and applications for educational robotics kits. (Leggi tutto)

Bruno Siciliano, Professor of Automatica at the University "Federico II", Naples, Italy, and a member of the School of Robotics' Scientific Committee is profiled as one of the seven "grandchildren" of the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, in seven different interviews by scientific journalist Pietro Greco. The book is "Galilei's grandchildren" (Baldini Castoldi Dalai). (Leggi tutto)

The ED.IT Publishing House has released a very accurate and comprehensive book on robotics&society. Editor is sociologist Guido Nicolosi (University of Catania), with papers by Giovanni Muscato, Fiorella Operto, Guido Nicolosi, Giovanna Morgavi, Véronique Faucounau, Marina Maestrutti, and an Afterword by Gianmarco Veruggio. (Leggi tutto)

This book (in Italian) is devoted to light on the learning-teaching processes involved in the learning-teaching of Mathematics. School of Robotics' Donatella Merlo is one of the Authors. (Leggi tutto)

Maurizo Garbati is a Professor of Technology in an Italian middle school. He is one of the first teacher who introduced in Italy microrobotics as technological tool, and wrote a first book, "Laboratorio di Microrobotica". Now, in this new manual, "Robotica Educativa" (Boopen Publisher), which embraces his - and his students' - experiences over the last five years, he works especially on the educational value of the interaction robot-environment. (Leggi tutto)

Genoa, Italy - For the book debut "Voila i robot" (Springer Verlag, 2010), Passeggiata Bookshop Café has a guest Nunzia Bonifati, the Author. The talk is going to take place Septermber 30th, 18:30. (Leggi tutto)

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