CNR 2015: Program

The Fourth edition of the international robot performance festival Cafe Neu Romance took take place from the 26th of November to 28th of November 2015 in Prague.

TUESDAY 24 November 2015:

Galerie NTK
Workshop: 7pm-9:30pm: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Education (Fee: 250 czk per person)

WEDNESDAY 25 November 2015:

Galerie NTK
Workshop: 7pm-9:30pm: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Education (Fee: 250 czk per person)

THURSDAY 26 November 2015:

IIM (Institute of Intermedia)
CNR 2015: 4pm - 6pm: Josef Capek & The Metamorphosis of Robots
Opening Talk: 4pm-4:10pm: Christian Gjørret (DNK): Opening Talk of Cafe Neu Romance 2015.
Presentation: 4:15pm-4:25pm: Emir Ceren (TUR): The Metamorphosis
Lecture: 4:30pm-4:55pm: Vit Bohal (CZE): Man-Machine, Charles University: The Crisis of the Humanist Subject from R.U.R. to the Present
Lecture: 5pm-5:25pm: Dustin Breiting (CZE), Charles University: Artificial Asymmetries: Cognition and Projections
Lecture: 5:30pm-5:55pm: Louis Armand (AUS), Charles University: De-Evolution Human Robots, Interpassivity & the Metamorphosis of Being

Galerie NTK
CNR 2015: 6pm-9pm: Opening: Cafe Neu Romance 2015
Exhibition: Charles University: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (CZE), Emir Ceren (TUR), Kiddum (CZE), Peter Kuper (USA), Radioklub Písek (CZE), Robotic Club VOS & SPS Rychnov nad Kneznou (CZE), Robotika.cz (CZE), RUR-Team (CZE), Tabi Aziri (ALB), Vive Les Robots! (DNK), Zuzana Husárová (SVK)
Demonstrations: 6pm-9pm: Kiddum (CZE): Wedo & LEGO MINDSTORMS robots, Aarhus University, Department of Education (DNK): Nao robot
Performance: 6:15pm-6:45pm:  Darina Alster (CZE) & Johana Strízková (CZE): Posthuman research
Workshop: 6:30pm-9pm: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Education (Fee: 250 czk per person)
Lecture: 7pm-7:30pm Gold Extra (AUT): Frankenstein
Play:7:45pm-8:15pm: RUR-Team (CZE): LEGO MINDSTORMS version of the Prologue of R.U.R

Meet: Cathrine Hasse (DNK),  Darina Alster (CZE), Dorte Marie Søndergaard (DNK), Dustin Breiting (CZE), Emir Ceren (TUR), Jamie Wallace (GBR), Joel Lehman (USA),  Johana Strízková (CZE), Kasper Støy (DNK), Kathleen Richardson (GBR),  Louis Armand (AUS).  Mark Drobnych (UKR), Markus Brandt (AUT), Martin Dlouhy (CZE),  Oleksiy Drobnych (UKR),  Oliver Tafdrup (DNK), RUR-Team (CZE), Sebastian Risi (GER), Vit Bohal (CZE)

Maria Vircikova 10

On the Friday 27 November you can meet PhD Maria Vircíková, who is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence in the field of human-robot interaction. She studied Cybernetics and A.I. at Technical University of Kosice. Forbes Slovakia selected Maria as one of the 30 today´s brightest stars under the age of 30 in 2013 and 2014.

FRIDAY 27 November 2015:

Galerie NTK
CNR 2015: 9am-6pm: Cafe Neu Romance 2015
Exhibition: Charles University: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (CZE), Emir Ceren (TUR), Kiddum (CZE), Peter Kuper (USA), Radioklub Písek (CZE), Robotic Club VOS & SPS Rychnov nad Kneznou (CZE), Robotika.cz (CZE), RUR-Team (CZE), Tabi Aziri (ALB), Vive Les Robots! (DNK), Zuzana Husárová (SVK)
Demonstrations: Kiddum (CZE): Wedo & LEGO MINDSTORMS robots
Meet: Cathrine Hasse (DNK), Dorte Marie Søndergaard (DNK),  Jamie Wallace (GBR),  Kathleen Richardson (GBR), Maria Vircikova (SLV),  Oliver Tafdrup (DNK), RUR-Team (CZE)

CNR 2015: 9:30am - 12:30pm: Educational Robots - A New Companion Species
Introduction: 9:30am-9:40am:  Cathrine Hasse (DNK): Introduction: Educational Robots - A New Companion Species
Lecture: 9:40am-10:05am: Oliver Tafdrup (DNK), Aarhus University : Transhumanism as a philosophical concept central to the understanding of robot designing and robot interaction
Lecture: 10:05am-10:30am: Jamie Wallace (GBR), Aarhus University: Human through making: a view of robots as the material practices of their production
Lecture: 10:30am-10:55am: Mark Drobnych (UKR) & Oleksiy Drobnych (UKR): ELFi Robotics Education Program
Break: 10:55am-11:15am
Lecture: 11:15am-11:40am: Dorte Marie Søndergaard (DNK), Aarhus University: Humanoids and avatars - technological mediation
Lecture: 11:40am-12:05pm: Kathleen Richardson (GBR), De Montfort University: An Attachment Crisis? Gender, intimate relationship and companion robots
Lecture: 12:05am-12:30pm: Maria Vircikova (SVK), TU Kosice: Intelligent Social Robots

Workshop: 9:30am -12:00am: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Education (Fee: 250 czk per person)

Play: 12:45pm-1:15pm: RUR-Team (CZE): LEGO MINDSTORMS version of the Prologue of R.U.R

Workshop: 1:15pm-2:45pm: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Education (Fee: 250 czk per person)

Workshop: 3pm-5pm: Cathrine Hasse (DNK), Aarhus University & Jamie Wallace (GBR), Aarhus University: Educational Robots - A New Companion, Play with imaginaries, drawings and NAO

Play: 5:15pm-5:45pm: RUR-Team (CZE): LEGO MINDSTORMS version of the Prologue of R.U.R

Jean Baptiste Mouret

Come to the lecture "Robots that can adapt to damage in minutes" by Jean-Baptiste Mouret (FRA), INRIA.

SATURDAY 28 November 2015:

Galerie NTK
CNR 2015: 9am-6pm: Cafe Neu Romance 2015
Exhibition: Charles University: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (CZE), Emir Ceren (TUR), Hobby Robot (CZE), Kiddum (CZE), Peter Kuper (USA), Radioklub Písek (CZE), Robotic Club VOS & SPS Rychnov nad Kneznou (CZE), Robotika.cz (CZE), RUR-Team (CZE), Tabi Aziri (ALB), Vive Les Robots! (DNK), Zuzana Husárová (SVK)
Demonstrations: Kiddum (CZE): Wedo & LEGO MINDSTORMS robots
Meet: Charles University: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (CZE), Jean-Baptiste Mouret (FRA), Joel Lehman (USA), Kasper Støy (DNK), Maria Vircikova (SLV), Martin Dlouhy (CZE), Radioklub Písek (CZE), Sebastian Risi (GER), Stephane Bonardi (FRA)

Workshop: 9:15am -11:45am: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Education (Fee: 250 czk per person)

CNR 2015: 9:30am - 12am: Modular Robotics & Evolutionary Robotics
Lecture: 9:30am-9:55am: Joel Lehman (USA), IT University of Copenhagen: Creative Algorithms for Evolving Robots
Lecture: 10:00am-10:25am:  Sebastian Risi (GER), IT University of Copenhagen: Bio-inspired, Automated Design of Machine Bodies and Artificial Brains
Lecture: 10:30am-10:55am: Kasper Støy (DNK), IT University of Copenhagen:  Flora-robotica: plant-robot hybrid organisms
Break: 10:55am-11:15am
Lecture: 11:15am-11:40am: Stéphane Bonardi (FRA), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne: Modular robots for smart environments
Lecture: 11:45am-12:10pm: Jean-Baptiste Mouret (FRA), INRIA: Robots that can adapt to damage in minutes
Lecture: 12:15am-12:40pm:  David Johan Christensen (DNK), Technical Univeristy of Denmark: Fable makes it easy, fun and educational to build modular robots (After the lecture is finished the visitors can come and try to play with Fable)

Competition: 1pm - 4:30pm: Tour the Stairs: The Service Robotics Competition 2015

Workshop: 12:45pm-3:15pm: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Education (Fee: 250 czk per person)

Lectures: 2pm-4:30pm: Charles University: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (CZE)

[image source: Vive Les Robots! Maria Vircikova, Antoine Cully]
[source: Vive Les Robots!]

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Cafe Neu Romance 2015:
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LOGO VIVE LES ROBOTS

The Danish "robot" marketing and event firm Vive Les Robots! was the main organizer of Cafe Neu Romance.

LOGO NTK

The Gallery of the National Technical Library in Prague, Galerie NTK, was the co-organizer of Cafe Neu Romance.

IIM LOGO TYPE

The Institute of Intermedia (IIM) at the Czech Technical University, was a special partner of Cafe Neu Romance.