Section: Dissemination

Communication towards the general public

Popular Science Articles

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2011) Curiosity and Languages, in Catalogue of the Exhibition “Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere”, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2011) Curiosité et Langages, extrait du catalogue de l’exposition « Mathématiques : Un Dépaysement Soudain », Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2011) GX-29 n'est pas un object comme les autres, Hors-Série Sciences et Avenir "Qu'est-ce-que l'homme", Décembre 2012.

Museum exhibitions, science festivals and general public presentations and demonstrations

16th December 2011: "Prix de la Vocation Scientifique et Technique des Filles": Mai Nguyen was sponsor of a winner of this award that encourages young high-school graduates to go into scientific fields. The organisation of a visit of the research institute and the laboratory will take place in the following months.

30 november 2011, Animation for childs, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris (Jérôme Béchu, Matthieu Lapeyre and Marie Sanchez)

21 - 23 October 2011, Scientific mediation about ErgoRobot, Mathématiques un dépaysement soudain, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris (Jérome Béchu, Fabien Bénureau, Haylee Fogg, Matthieu Lapeyre, Olivier Mangin, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Pierre Rouanet)

14-16 october 2011, Public demonstartion of Acroban, Fête de la Science, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris (Paul Fudal and Matthieu Lapeyre)

13th october 2011: Public presentation and demonstration “Le robot Acroban”, Conférence SAME, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France (Olivier Ly and Paul Fudal).

29th june 2011: Public presentation and demonstration of robot “Acroban”, Digital Games International Conference, Bordeaux, France (Paul Fudal, Matthieu Lapeyre, Pierre Rouanet, Jérome Béchu).

8th august 2011, Public demonstration of Acroban, ECALL'11 Workshop, Paris (Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet).

8th august 2011: Public presentation and demonstration “Le robot Acroban”, Workshop AAALE at ECAL'11, Paris, France (Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet).

18th june 2011, Demonstration of Acroban and Nao, visit of the association "Jeunes Science Bordeaux" in our laboratory, Bordeaux ( Pierre Rouanet and Matthieu Lapeyre).

May 2011: The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (Fet11) was held between the 4th and 6th May 2011 in Budapest, Hungary. The team had the opportunity to demonstrate Acroban at their stand. The audience was typically members of the cutting edge technology field and had a good representation of both research and research departments of industry. (Haylee Fogg, Adrien Baranes and Olivier Ly)

April 2011: Laval Virtual in Laval, France was a virtual reality exhibition held in France between the 6th and 10th April. The team brought FLOWERS Field and Acroban along to the exhibition and were greeted with great enthusiasm. Members of the public had access to the final two days of this exhibition which provided very different feedback from the previous days and exhibition in Laval. Most of the previous guests were members of various technology and robotic fields and reacted quite differently from those of the public. Both Acroban and FLOWERS Field were well received by all. (Jérôme Béchu, Pierre Rouanet, Jérémy Laviole and Haylee Fogg)

March 2011: Innorobo (International Summit of Personal Robotics) in Lyon, France aimed at gathering both industry and research teams who develop in the area of service robotics in order to show to the general public as well as to build up industrial partnerships during an exhibition which was held between the 23rd and 25th March. The team had the opportunity to present FLOWERS Field and Acroban. Acroban attracted a lot of interest from both the general and specialist public, as well as from various media. This was also the first time that the updated version of FLOWERS Field had been presented, and the added functionality of interactivity with the audience was a big hit; this included being able to select various flower behaviours through an iPad interface and also interact with the flowers through a special behaviour where flowers followed the path of the interactor’s hand through a Kinect. (Jérôme Béchu, Pierre Rouanet, Paul Fudal, Olivier Ly, Haylee Fogg and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer)

5th febuary 2011, Promotion for scientific studies, Salon Aquitec, Bordeaux (Matthieu Lapeyre and Olivier Mangin).

21th january 2011: Public presentation and demonstration of iDrive, rencontres INRIA-Industrie "nouveaux services mobiles" , Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France (Jérôme Béchu and Pierre Rouanet).

Press

Web links to the following press items are available on http://flowers.inria.fr/press.php .

TV

September 2011, CNBC, "Acroban the humanoid" (Interview of Olivier Ly).

March 2011, BFM TV, "Ces robots qui vont changer nos vies" (explains Acroban).

March 2011, TF1, “Des robots au service des homees" (features Acroban).

March 2011, La Chaine Techno, “JTech: Acroban le robot français « bon marché » présenté à Innorobo » (Interview of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer).

Radio

November 2011, France Inter, "En direct de la Fondation Cartier: Les mystères des mathématiques, et les robots et la curiosité", 3D Le Journal, émission de Stéphane Paoli (Interview de Pierre-Yves Oudeyer)

November 2011, RFI, "Les maths en ont leur certificats artistique à la Fondation Cartier", by Isabelle Artus (explanation of Ergo-Robots).

July 2011, France Inter, "Robots, Invasion Imminente ?", On verra ça demain, émission de Daniel Fiévet (Interview de Pierre-Yves Oudeyer).

May 2011, France Culture, "L'apprentissage des robots", On prolonge l'émission avec l'INRIA, émission de Xavier de la Porte (Interview de Pierre-Yves Oudeyer)

March 2011, France Info, Emission de Marc Fauvel (Interview de Pierre-Yves Oudeyer)

March 2011, France Info, Chronique de Jérome Collomban, “Les robots sont de sortie à Lyon” (explains Acroban)

March 2011, RFI, Chronique de Dominique Desaunay, “Acroban, le nouvel androide”

Magazines

December 2011, Sciences et Avenir, "GX-29 n'est pas un objet comme les autres", Hors-Série "Qu'est-ce-que l'homme ?" (text of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer).

December 2011, Tangente, "Robots et mathématiques", Hors-Série sur l'exposition "Mathématiques: un Dépaysement Soudain" (Interview of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer).

October 2011, Sciences et Avenir, "L'apprentissage de la curiosité", Hors-Série sur l'exposition "Mathématiques: un Dépaysement Soudain" (Interview of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer).

October 2011, Wallpaper (Art magazine), "Mathematics exhibition at Fondation Cartier, in Paris".

March 2011, Le Point, "La robotique s'empare des sciences humaines" (explanation of robot models of cognition)

March 2011, L'Usine Nouvelle, "Un compagnon très très sensible" (explanation of Acroban)

Newspapers

November 2011, Libération, "David Lynch, La loi du silencio".

November 2011, Financial Times, "Twin Peaks of Maths and Arts".

October 2011, The Saturday Telegraph, "Art plus maths: do they add up?".

October 2011, The Times, "Maths and Arts? Go Figure".

April 2011, LeMonde.fr, video on human-robot interfaces and the use of Nao by research labs.

March 2011, 20 minutes, “Acroban, le robot qui va apprendre comme un enfant”.

March 2011, Direct Matin, “Acroban, le robot français qui apprend comme un enfant”.

March 2011, Les Echos, “Mon robot nettoie ma maison”.

March 2011, Nouvel Obs, “Acroban, le robot qui apprend par lui-même”.

March 2011, Le Progrès, “Ces robots qui vont changer notre vie quotidienne”.

March 2011, Les Nouvelles, (Canada), “Des chercheurs français développent Acroban, le robot qui apprend par lui-même” .

March 2011, Le Matin, (suisse), “Les robots se plient en quatre pour nous” .

March 2011, Charente Libre, “Prendre un robot par la main”.

March 2011, Le Figaro, “Les robots font leur show”.

March 2011, Les Echos Judiciaires, “Nouvelles technologies, des chercheurs bordelaise à la pointe de la robotique”.

March 2011, Le Dauphine, “Les robots dernière génération débarquent”.

Web

November 2011, Slate, "L'art de la formule", par Jean-Michel Frodon.

October 2011, ArtsScienceFactory, "Les Ergo-Robots arrivent", et éditorial sur l'expo "Mathématiques, un dépaysement soudain", par Jean-Michel Frodon.

March 2011, Futura Sciences, “Des robots convergent vers Lyon pour le salon Innorobo …”.

March 2011, MSN News “Les robots font leur show: Acroban”.

March 2011, http://Wired.co.uk , “There is no point making robots look and act like humans”.

March 2011, Bizzen IT and Business, "Robotter til sjov, hjælp og til absolut ingenting".

March 2011, Tom's guide, "Acroban the humanoid robot".

March 2011, Journal du Geek, “Acroban, le premier robot que l’on peut prendre par la main”.

March 2011, Famili.fr, “Un bébé robot”.