Story / Stories

The daydreaming girl Dorothy Gale gets swept to the magical beautiful world of Oz the wizard. In her journey to go back home she meets a talking scarecrow that wishes to have a brain, Tin Woodman who longs for a heart, and Cowardly Lion who seeks courage. They all join the quest to meet the wizard…
And the story continues about Dorothy’s trip and her quest. However there is another story for the Wizard of Oz we are all familiar with:

"Os humanos sempre tiveram dificuldade em ver os robôs como companheiros. O projecto Living With Robots and Interactive Companions (LIREC) quer acabar com essa "injustiça" através do trabalho de universidades e empresas europeias." http://aeiou.exameinformatica.pt/o-robo-sentimental=f1005783

UH Meiyii Lim (HWU) and Wan Ching HO organized a one day symposium on the 29th March, in conjunction with the AISB 2010 Convention, named "Remebering Who We Are - Human Memory For Artificial Agents." The following 2 links are the online media coverage (in German)

• http://www.magazin-am-wochenende.de/artikel.asp?art=1222080&kat=313
• http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Vergessliche-Computer-967153.html

Mick Walters (from UH) was interviewed by BBC 3 Counties radio on 10th May, re. Knife wielding robots, http://www.switched.com/2010/05/07/german-scientists-test-knife-wielding...

Kubinyi Enikő, from EOTETO was interviewed for Hungarian Television 2, April 23. 2010, http://videotar.mtv.hu/?k=kubinyi

WRUT participated in a programme of Polish private television network TVN, called Good morning TVN, where we presented WRUT robots and talked about LIREC project and robotic companions. The programme is broadcasted live over the whole Poland on Saturday morning. In TVN studio WRUT team met the Polish Minister of Health, Mrs. Ewa Kopacz, who got interested in robotic companions. http://dziendobrytvn.plejada.pl/24,33941,news,,1,,bajki_robotow,aktualno...