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)
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
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!]
Cafe Neu Romance
2015:
Program
Exhibition
Lectures
Live
Workshops
Competitions
The Danish "robot" marketing and event
firm Vive Les Robots! was the main organizer of Cafe Neu
Romance.
The Gallery of the National Technical Library in Prague, Galerie NTK, was the co-organizer of Cafe Neu Romance.
The Institute of Intermedia (IIM) at the Czech Technical University, was a special partner of Cafe Neu Romance.