ECAgents project

Press

Brochure on Complex System Research

Buchanan M., How new words become part of a language, New Scientist, 2005

Buchanan M., Interview on strong reciprocity models of cooperation, New Scientist.

Dall'Italia algoritmi di nuova generazione per indagare le reti (From Italy new generation algorithms to investigate networks), Italian Network, 10 March 2004.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Experimental evolution in robots probes the emergence of biological communication, Cell Press, February 2007.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Die Stammtische der Roboterschwärme: Wo das Soziale gedeiht, Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, February 2007.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Pour durer, communiquons, foi de robots, Le Temps, February 2007.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., It's a Bot-Eat-Bot World, ScienceNOW Daily News, February 2007.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Robots hold key to evolution of language, Daily Telegraph, February, 2007.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Robot swarms ‘evolve' effective communication, NewScientistTech, February 2007.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Robots Evolve to Deceive, Technology Review (MIT), March 2007.

Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Blechmänner zeigen Mitgef ühl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 2007

ECAgents: Embodied and Communicating Agents, Cordis Focus, Thematic Supplement, Emerging Technologies: Empowering People in the Information Society, Issue 21, september 2004, p. 10

ECAgents - When robots learn social skills, IST Results e-bulletin 26/06/2006

Holmquist L.E., Bilder av Buller - så ser ljud ut på film (Images of Noise – This is how Sound looks on Film), Ny Teknik (New Technology magazine, Sweden), Feature on context-aware research at Viktoria

Holmquist L.E., Datorn flyttar in i våra kläder och kaffekoppar (The computer moves into our clothes and coffee cups), Göteborgsposten (Gothenburg Post, Sweden), Feature on ubiquitous computing research at Viktoria

Holmquist L.E., Framtidens forskningsledare är här (The Future Research Leaders are here), Announcement of the prestigious Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Holmquist L.E., node leader for Viktoria, is one of the grant recipients.

Kaplan F. (by Fabrice Delaye). Les mythes du robot demystifies, l'AGEFI (04/04/2005)

Kaplan F. (by Otis Port). How This Dog Teaches Itself New Tricks, Business Week (04/07/2005)

Kaplan F. (by Paul Kallender). Sony researchers create 'curious' Aibos, IDG News Service (15/06/2005)

Kaplan F. (by Will Knight). Robo-pups created with curiosity in mind, New Scientist.com (22/06/2005)

Kaplan F., Oudeyer P-Y. Un robot curieux , Pour La Science , no. 348, October 2006.

Kaplan F., Okapi, October 2006.

Kaplan, F., Livres Hebdo, April 2006

Monero M., Il mondo e' fatto a reti: il difficile e' districarle (The world is made of networks: the difficult task is to untangle them), Il Secolo XIX web, 10 March 2004.

Nolfi S., (interviewed by Luigi dell'Aglio), I robot che si mettono in fila come le formiche, Affari e Finanza, La Repubblica, 17 October 2005, p. 23

Nolfi S., Robots that mind the gap, Technology Marketplace, 20 February 2006

Nolfi S. (interviewed by Piermaria Pazienza), ECAgents: ecco i robot programmati per aiutare nelle catastrofi, La Provincia di Como, 25 September 2006, p. 20

Nolfi S., Presentati a Roma dal CNR i primi robot che lavorano in gruppo, Libero, 26 September 2006, p. 35

Nolfi S., (interviewed by Emanuele Perugini), Ecco il robot che parla e impara, Il Mattino, 26 September 2006, p. 13

Nolfi S., I robot che lavorano in gruppo saranno il futuro, parola di CNR, Lucania, 28 September 2006, p. 4

Nolfi S., Ecco gli ECAgents, robot capaci di comunicare tra loro, Corriere Nazionale, 01 October 2006, p. 11

Nolfi S. (interviewed by Francesca Tarissi), I robot funzionano meglio se lavorano in gruppo, La Repubblica, Affari & Finanza, 30 October 2006, p. 27

Nolfi S., "Io, tu, noi andare a casa": con i robot si chiacchiera, Paola Mariano, La Stampa, 29 August 2007

Nolfi S., Complessità e comportamenti emergenti. Il contributo della Robotica educativa, Maurizio Garbati, Le Scienze, 2007

Nolfi S,. Il robot della porta accanto, tra 20 anni uno in ogni casa, Il Messaggero, 8 April 2007, p. 10

Nolfi S., E' ora di imitare la natura, La Stampa, Tutto Scienza, 7 February 2007, p.6

Oudeyer P-Y. (2005). Is there a ghost in the machine? Chronic'Art, September 2005.

Oudeyer P-Y. (by Domitille de Veyrac). Ici l'espace Landowsky: Les robots parlent aux robots, Boulogne-Billancourt Sortir, numéro 28, 2005.

Oudeyer P-Y. (by Herve Morin). Des robots remontent aux sources du langage, Le Monde édition du 23 August 2005.

Oudeyer P-Y. ( by Paul Kallender). Robo-pups created with curiosity in mind by Will Knight for NewScientist; 22 June 2005

Oudeyer P-Y. and Kaplan F.(by Fabrice Delaye). Dans les labos de Sony, Aibo apprend à faire des bêtises, l'AGEFI, 2005.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2006). Interview in Ushuaïa Magazine on language acquisition in robots

Parisi D. (interviewed by Francesca Tarassi), Robotica collettiva (Collective robotics), La Repubblica, Affari e Finanza, 14/06/2004, p. 19

Parisi D. (interviewed by Luigi dell’Aglio), Sciami di robot a difesa delle città (Swarms of robots in defence of cities), Il Sole 24 Ore, n° 22, 23/01/2004, p. 11

Parisi D., (interviewed by Roberta Ronconi) Interview, Sulla terra c'è vita. Artificiale, Liberazione, 5 February 2006

Parisi D, (interviewed by Paolo Marocco), Intervista, Il Manifesto, 14 January 2006

Parisi D. (interviewed by Luigi dell'Aglio). Interview: Robot, l'era solidale, Avvenire, 15 January 2006

Parisi D., E' ora di imitare la natura, La Stampa, Tutto Scienza, 7 February 2007, p.6

Porting from a Desktop PC to a new Platform, Pocket PC Magazine, US, Feature on development environments including GapiDraw. Similar information also disseminated through The Swedish IT Institute and IT University of Gothenburg.

Sony researchers create 'curious' Aibos, IDG News Service, 15 June 2005

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/050614aibo/

Project Press Release

Staden som instrument (The city as an instrument), Ny Teknik (New Technology magazine, Sweden), Feature on Sonic City

Steels L. et al., Une seule langue était-elle à l'origine de toutes?, Science et Vie, 2006.

Steels L., 50 jaar Artificiële Intelligentie, Akademos, vol. 9, no. 5, December 2006, pp. 4-6.

Artificiële Intelligentie is vijftig jaar oud, De Morgen, 23 November 2006, p. 17.

Integrista es quien fosiliza los símbolos, La Vanguardia, 30 September 2006, (also interviews in Il Periodico, Kool, Barcelona TV )

VUB-prof maakt theater in Parijs. Brussel deze week, 27 April 2006, p. 1.

Steels L., De ruis van robots. In Dietsche Warande & Belfort , vol. 15, No. 2, April 2006, pp. 245-254.

Steels L. Article in Wired Magazine, December 2006

Steels L., En robotica ya disponemos del hardware, ahora hacen falta creadores de software (In robotics we already have hardware, now we are missing software creators), El Pais, July 29 2004

Teoria delle Reti: nuovi algoritmi per rendere semplice il complesso (Network Theory: new algorithms that make complex simple), Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Matematica, Comunicato stampa INFM, 1 March 2004

VIKTORIA , Automatic p2p: extreme file sharing, P2Pnet

VIKTORIA, Swap songs with strangers, TMCNET.com, January 06 2006

VIKTORIA, MP3 players swap songs with strangers, New Scientist.com, 07 January 2006, Magazine issue 2533

VIKTORIA, Students concoct music industry’s nightmare, The Inquirer, by Nick Farrell, January 06 2006

VIKTORIA, Wireless MP3 Sharing with Push!Music, NewsForge, January 06 2006

VIKTORIA, Push!Music article: Swedes make music search out listener, PC Pro, 9 January, 2006.

VIKTORIA, Push!Music article: Sweden says: Here, have some automated MP3 filesharing, Electron Soup, 6 January, 2006.

VIKTORIA, Push!Music article: Snart vet alla din musiksmak, Expressen, By Anna Wahlgren, 8 January, 2006.

VIKTORIA, Push!Music article: Ladda ner musik på gatan eller bussen, GT, By Lasse Råde, 15 January, 2006.

VIKTORIA, (by Anna Salleh) Intelligent Fridge Magnets article: Fridge magnets tinker with poetry, ABC news in science, 20 January, 2006.

VIKTORIA, Intelligent Fridge Magnets article: Poetry-generating electronic fridge magnets are on their way to your kitchen. New Scientist magazine, 07 January 2006, page 19.

VIKTORIA, Glowbots article: “Tiny ‘GlowBots' Hint at Future Robots”, In Discovery News (Online article), By Tracy Staedter, Aug 2, 2007.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/02/globot_tec.html?category=technology

VIKTORIA, Glowbots blog article: “GlowBots develop relationships, express emotions via LEDs”, Blog article at Engadget, By Darren Murph, May 13, 2007.
http://www.engadget.com/tag/GlowBots/

VIKTORIA Glowbots blog article: “An exotic pet? No, a Glowbot”, New Scientist technology blog, By Mathew Busse, August 10, 2007
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/08/exotic-pet-no-glowbot.html

VIKTORIA, Electronic Wallpaper grows from your photos. In Discovery News (Online article), By Tracy Staedter, Sept 6, 2007. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/06/wallpaper_tec.html?category=health&guid=20070906113000&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0004

VIKTORIA, Autonomous Wallpaper article: “New technology creates lively E-wallpaper”, Computer, IEEE Computer Society. By L. D. Paulson, Vol 40 (11), 2007.

VIKTORIA: Autonomous Wallpaper in Swedish article: “Tekniken som revolutionerar ditt liv” (The technology that revolutionizes your life), Damernas Värld No 4 (Swedish Women's Magazine), By Anna Hedlund, pp. 70-74, 2008.

Radio

Baronchelli A. on Il volo delle oche , Radio24, 16 November 2005.

Floreano D., Les Temps qui Courent, five radio shows on bio-inspiration, Radio Espace 2 , 15 July 2005.

Floreano D., Les Forts en Thème, on the future of cyborgs, Radio Espace 2, 14 October 2005

Hafner V.V. (by Geoff Watts) on Leading Edge, BBC Radio4 , 27/05/04

Maria Håkansson, 3 September 2005, was interviewed about the Push!Music project by Jan Skøt on the Danish radio programme Harddisken (on Danmarks Radio's P1 station): Musiklopper - fremtidens spredning af musik og kultur (“Musical fleas: future methods to distribute music and culture”)

Ittzes P. (2006) radio interview in Hungarian, 26 October 2006, Petofi Rádió, Hungary

Kaplan F., Les robots sont-ils nos amis?, on Radio France Culture , 08/06/04

Loreto V. on Il volo delle oche , Radio24, 13 December 2005.

Oudeyer P-Y., Interview/debate in France Culture, L'intelligence peut-elle être artificielle?, Radio France, 6 October 2006.

Steels L. and Loetzsch M. on the Perspective Reversal Experiment, broadcasted on radio Deutschlandfunk, 27 February 2006

Talking Robots, podcast, 24 November 2006, EPFL Lausanne.

Television

TV broadcast, April 2004: EXPLORA, La TV delle scienze, RAI Educational, Discussion on “Networks” with Castellano C. (ECAgents), Di Bernardo D., Loreto V. (ECAgents), Parisi D. (ECAgents).

MTV1 (main Hungarian TV channel), Delta science magazine : report on Hungarian ECAgents activities with E. Szathmary.

Kaplan F. Live debate on Direct8 about robots in Society. Octobre 2005

Oudeyer P-Y. Television interview for TVE (national spanish television) about developmental robotics and speech related technologies, in the REDES <http://www.rtve.es/tve/b/redes/index.html> program.

Oudeyer P-Y. Television interview for Public Sénat channel about robots in the future, 2006.

The VRT (Flemish public television network) has recorded a short documentary on Martin Loetzsch's Perspective Reversal Experiment and the Talking Heads, for their channel Canvas in a show called OverLeven.

TV broadcast, April 2004: EXPLORA, La TV delle scienze, RAI Educational, Discussion on “Complexity” with Luisi Pier Luigi, Loreto V. (ECAgents), Parisi G. (ECAgents) and Pietronero L. (ECAgents).

Luc Steels was interviewed by Barcelona TV, Spain , 2006.

Stefano Nolfi, 22 September 2006, Al Cnr inventati robot di nuovissima generazione capaci di lavorare da soli senza essere telecomandati, RAI TV2 , TG 2 20.30.

Video

Oudeyer P-Y. and Kaplan F. (2005) The Discovery Of Communication, this video shows the experimental setup used in the Playground Experiment in which a robot, driven by curiosity, develops an interest for vocal interactions with another robot.

Steels L., Loetzsch M. (2005) The Perspective Reversal Experiment.

VIKTORIA: GlowBots demonstration video. Explains the basic concepts of our newly developed see-Puck display attachment for e-Pucks.

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