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This class of robots is called “MDS” – mobile/dexterous/social. The purpose of the robots is to support research and education goals in human-robot interaction, teaming, and social learning.
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First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence – March 1st 2008, at the University of Memphis. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research focuses on the original and ultimate goal of AI – to create intelligence as a whole, by exploring all available paths, including theoretical and experimental computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies.

More at agi-08.org

University of Hertfordshire – Applications from postgraduate/postdoctoral candidates are invited for a full-time research assistantship or research fellowship in developmental social robotics. The post offers the opportunity to work within the Adaptive Systems Research Group, a proactive and dynamic research team with an excellent international research profile. You will work in the European project ITALK (Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robot).
Start Date: 20 March 2008
Closing date: April 2008 or later

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Photosynth is a collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Washington based on the groundbreaking research of Noah Snavely (UW), Steve Seitz (UW), and Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research) that might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.

The "Khronos Projector" is a cutting edge research project from the Ishikawa Namiki Komuro Laboratory of the University of Tokyo. By touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time.

Khronos web page