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It was a celebration on 10 January: the Afrikaander Cooperative marks its tenth anniversary, and the new Grondstoffenstation is officially opened by alderman Vincent Karremans. The Cooperative was a key partner throughout the Cities of Things LAB010 project. Throughout the day there were festivities at the Gemaal. As part of
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The Wijkbots were well represented at TH/NGS 2023, the annual conference on the connected world and responsible design organised by ThingsCon — with a workshop on 15 December and a broader programme on the 16th. The theme of TH/NGS 2023 was Un/intended consequences: what is the impact of
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At the beginning of 2022, we officially kicked off the project Cities of Things LAB010, shaped together with Creating010 of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and with main partners Afrikaander Wijkcooperatie and Studio voor de Stad (represented by Zeewaardig). To close the two-year project, we will be part of the
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During Dutch Design Week, on Thursday 26 October, the Wijkbot was the subject of a presentation, a workshop and a working session — a great opportunity to share experiences and make new contacts. First, Tomasz Jaskiewicz gave a presentation at DRIVE about Digital Society, discussing the experiences and deployment of Wijkbot
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On 5 October, Wijkbot visited Hamburg at the invitation of the festival CityClimate meets CreativeCoding. We ran a workshop using the Wijkbots for Climate Change Awareness, with three teams building a Wijkbot focused on climate topics. It was an inspiring session with excellent and creative participants who, in the three-hour
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On 5 October, we will be at the conference and festival in Hamburg CityClimate meets CreativeCoding to host a workshop with the Wijkbot. "Autonomous urban robots are starting to appear in European cities, with delivery-, scanning-, cleaning-, advertising-, security-, or waiter- robots being just some examples. The current development
field lab Cities of Things Lab010
As part of the sneak preview of the Grondstoffenstation Afrikaanderwijk we will show two versions of Wijkbot, and specifically the iteration developed in the Cities of Things LAB010 project with the residents of the Afrikaanderwijk. That iteration is named Inzamelbot, as it is part of recirculating resources towards the Grondstoffenstation.
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On the occasion of the sneak preview of the new Grondstoffenstation — designed by Superuse for the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative — during the Tweeduizend Meter Maaltijd on 20 September. We made two smaller versions of the Inzamelbot that navigate more easily in busy environments, ready for use at festivals and markets. The collection
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New AI-endeavours build communities of self-improving multilateral augmented intelligence, as flocks of multi-core AIs improve themselves in continuous self-reflection. (This post was sent as a newsletter on 31th July via Cities of Things Substack) Having AI as co-performers with humans has been the topic more than once, referring to the
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A standardised workshop kit housing designed and built by a team of IPO (Industrial Product Design) students.
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This post is written in Dutch. Below is an English translation added. Afgelopen Koningsdag hebben we een nieuw experiment gedaan met de Wijkbot, de prototype-kit van een stadsrobot waarmee we in de Afrikaanderwijk aan de slag zijn. Na afloop van het bezoek van de koning organiseerde de wijk een festival
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On King's Day we conducted a new experiment with the Wijkbot in the Afrikaanderwijk. After the King's visit, the neighbourhood organised a festival in the park. Using the Wijkbot, a Verzamelbot (Collection Robot) was built to help keep the festival grounds clean. The design and construction