Publiek evenement
Eind oktober 2022 staat een speciale versie van Wijkbot op de Dutch Design Week. Voor die gelegenheid geven we het prototype de naam Wijkbot en lanceren we de speciale landingspagina wijkbot.nl op de website van Cities of Things, die later een eigen website wordt. Op pad op de beurs
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At the end of October 2022, a special version of the Wijkbot appeared at Dutch Design Week. For the occasion, we gave the prototype the name Wijkbot and launched the special landing page wijkbot.nl. The Wijkbot was not only on display at the Design United stand, but also occasionally
Studentenproject
Een groep TI studenten heeft gewerkt aan een eerste technische opdracht voor de Wijkbot. Doelstelling is een zelfstandig rijdende Wijkbot met sensoren om omgeving te begrijpen. De studentengroep heeft de opdracht vertaald naar een oberbot waarbij de technische basis het toepassen van ROS (Robot Operating System) en een Kinect om
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A group of Technical Informatics students worked on a first technical assignment for the Wijkbot: a self-driving version equipped with sensors to understand its surroundings. The group named their version Oberbot. The assignment began with studying the existing neighborhood robot and choosing which scenarios to investigate. The scenario explores
Conference workshop
Onder de naam “The Agency of Smart Urban Things” was Wijkbot aanwezig op ThingsCon 2022 Summer Edition, 9 juni 2022. Tijdens de workshop ging Wijkbot onder andere 'winkelen' bij Albert Heijn in de buurt van de conferentielocatie. Als onderdeel van het Cities of Things Lab010-project kijken we
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Under the name The Agency of Smart Urban Things, Wijkbot was present at ThingsCon 2022 Summer Edition on 9 June 2022. During the workshop, the Wijkbot went shopping at an Albert Heijn supermarket near the conference venue. As part of the Cities of Things Lab010 project, we explore urban smart-
field lab MUC-AMS
Cities of Things will organize a workshop during the yearly Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW) on 16 May 2022 (13:30 - 15:30 at MunichUrbanColab). Since the signing of the renewed Letter of Intent for the Creative Embassy MUC-AMS and Workshop “Cities of Things” on 11 October last year
field lab MUC-AMS
Last 23 March we organized a workshop at the Marineterrein in Amsterdam to discuss the progress of the field lab plans and connect with existing and new contacts. The session was a step towards the planning of a field lab program - hopefully - later this year. We had a good group
reflections
Dear readers. The last edition was just released after the war in Ukraine started. The flow of the war is maybe different than expected in some parts, like the resistance and duration. On the other hand, patterns seem the same as earlier wars initiated by Putin, and also compared to
field lab Cities of Things Lab010
As announced in the latter post the field lab Cities of Things Lab010 was invited to organize the hackathon together with Creating010 and Civic Prototyping Lectorate of this year's IoTRotterdam event. In the end, four teams participated and build some very nice citythings; autonomous moving objects on the
Conference workshop
Social Citythings in de IoTRotterdam Hackathon Zoals aangekondigd in de laatste post, werd het Cities of Things Lab010 uitgenodigd om samen met Creating010 en Civic Prototyping Lectorate de hackathon van dit jaar's IoTRotterdam evenement te organiseren. Uiteindelijk namen vier teams deel en bouwden ze enkele zeer mooie stadselementen;
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As announced in the previous post, Cities of Things Lab010 was invited — together with Creating010 and the Civic Prototyping Lectorate — to organise the hackathon at the IoTRotterdam event. The winning team presented their project Kickbots: after rapid street research to define their strategy, they designed an urban element that acts