Section: Dissemination

Popularization

• IniRobot: Development, evaluation and dissemination of the IniRobot program for initiating young kids (primary schools) to computer science and robotics. This has been used and deployed in several major towns in France, including Lille, Talence and Lormont. It is now used by more than 7000 primary school children. Several days of formation for teachers have been organized to foster dissemination. The kit is Creative Commons, and available on the dedicated web site created: https://dm1r.inria.fr/c/kits-pedagogiques/inirobot

• The Flowers team was a partner of several art/science projects studying various dimensions of the role and evolution of robots and society, and in particular

  • The Comacina project exploring the role of movements and light in expressing emotions: http://comacina.org . This project was implemented through several residencies during the year, and several performances at various cultural places in Aquitaine, including at Pole Evasion in Ambares-et-Lagrave. a report is available at https://flowers.inria.fr/RencontreAutourDuGeste.pdf . It benefitted from funding from the Art/Science Idex call for project.

  • The Marionnettes Electriques project studies animation techniques allowing to express fast and rich interaction in real-time on the stage. Various realizations can be seen from https://www.poppy-project.org/project/marionnettes-electriques/ .

  • The School of Moon project, from the Shonen dance company (headed by Eric Minh Cuong Castaing), is working on the design of a dance show about robots and posthumanity. It is using multiple robots, including the Poppy Humanoid robot in dynamic physical interaction with dancers. The premiere will happen in january 2016 at Ballet de Marseille. Web site: http://shonen.info/schoolofmoon/ .

• PY Oudeyer published a milestone popular science book together with astrophysicists Jean Audouze, biologist Georges Chapouthier, architect Denis Laming, on the common threads related to the origins of complexity at different scales in the universe. The tile is “Mondes Mosaiques, Astres, Villes, Vivant et Robots”.

• PY Oudeyer wrote a popular science article about developmental robotics in “Pour la Science” (the french version of Scientific American), entitled: “L'éveil des bébés robots”, available here: http://www.pyoudeyer.com/eveilRobotsPourLaScienceOudeyer15.pdf

• PY Oudeyer gave several interviews in the general press and at radio and TV programs (e.g. Le Monde, Les Echos, Sciences et Avenir, RFI, Nova/PBS, Arte) to explain societal issues of robotics, http://www.pyoudeyer.com/press/

• January 29, 2015: Pierre Rouanet, Matthieu Lapeyre and Nicolas Rabault presented the Poppy Project in the TTFX conference in Bordeaux.

• Robots Makers'day (january) : First Lego League, Poppy and Thymio workshops

• January 31, 2015: Aquitec 2015, Yoan Mollard presented the Poppy platform to students and visitors

• February 11, 2015: Benjamin Clément, Manuel Lopes, Pierre Rouanet, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer were invited to present the Kidlearn and Poppy projects to the French senate in Paris.

• May 28 to 29, 2015: William Schueller, Baptiste Busch and Yoan Mollard participated to the jury of students option "Informatique et Sciences du numérique", Lycée Saint Genes, Bordeaux

• June 03 to 06, 2015: Didier Roy, Sébastien Forestier and William Schueller participated to the event “Science and You” in Nancy, by presenting Poppy and Inirobot projects.

• June 13, 2015: Thibault Desprez, Antoine Darfeuil, Amandine Spriet, Theo Segonds and Pierre Rouanet participated to the Robot Makers Day where they organized a half day workshop on how to program Poppy Torso in Bordeaux.

• August 08, 2015 : David Filliat gave a Talk at "Festival de Fleurance", a science festival in Fleurance (south of France) : Les robots, bientot nos egaux ?

• August 11-14, 2015: Theo Segonds and Pierre Rouanet were invited to present their work on the connection between Snap and Poppy robots to the 2015 Scratch conference in Amsterdam.

• August 25, 2015 : David Filliat gave a Talk at "Rencontre enseignant-entreprises" at Ecole Polytechnique : Remplacer les hommes par les robots :jusqu’ou ira-t-on ?

• September 28 to October 2, 2015: Baptiste Busch, Yoan Mollard, and other participants of the 3rd hand consortium presented the project on a booth among other EU projects at the IROS conference, Hamburg, Germany

• October 13, 2015: Rencontre Inria Industrie: Baptiste Busch, Benjamin Clément and Alexandra Delmas presented respectively the projects 3rdHand, KidLearn and 5APC on a booth, Bordeaux

• October, 16, 2015: Pierre Rouanet and Yoan Mollard presented the Poppy robots to the Bdx I/O Conference in Bordeaux.

• October 20 to 22, 2015: Baptiste Busch, Pierre Rouanet, Yoan Mollard and Manuel Lopes showcased 3rd hand and Poppy robots to the ICT Forum in Lisbon, Portugal

• November 16, 2015: Yoan Mollard gave a talk to the ESAC Alumni meeting 2015 about the 3rd hand project, European Space Agency, Madrid, Spain

• October, 5, 2015: Nicolas Rabault presented the Poppy platform at the developer day from orange lab, Bordeaux.

• March, 30 to 31, 2015: Nicolas Rabault presented "what is robotics" to primary school children for the "Festival jeune public du documentaire scientifique"

• May, 29 to 30, 2015 : Matthieu Lapeyre and Nicolas Rabault : participated to the "open bidouille camp", Aix en Provence