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At the Smart & Social Fest, neighborhood robots were used as the basis for two workshops: a walk with 20 people and 1 Wijkbot from CMI op Zuid to the Afrikaanderplein, and a session at Stadslab where quick prototypes were built. Workshop: Walk with the Neighborhood Robot Small autonomous vehicles
field lab Cities of Things Lab010
Friday 21 April, we will discuss the progress of the Wijkbot project in a workshop at Smart & Social Fest, organised by the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Next to the discussion workshop, it is possible to use the Wijkbot kit to create an urban robot! On Smart & Social
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With Cities of Things, we look at intelligent (behaviour of) things in our future cities. Robotics combined with an intelligence agency. Last week I attended a lecture by James Bridle, who wrote a book last year on other intelligence last year (Ways of Being), that I liked a lot. They
field lab Cities of Things Lab010
This update was sent earlier in a slightly different form (and in Dutch) to the partners and participants in the LAB010 project. Read more on the backgrounds of this Cities of Things field lab project here. The Cities of Things Lab010 project has been running for a year now since
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A second group of Technical Informatics students developed a version of the Wijkbot that can navigate autonomously from point to point using sensors and positioning technology, while avoiding obstacles.
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The Wijkbot was also present at the ThingsCon unconference on 9 December 2022. Using the basic kit, visitors spontaneously created interventions — including in the café of the conference venue, the Nieuwe Instituut.
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The plan is for the Inzamelbot to collect leftover materials at the Afrikaandermarkt. We tested with a version of the Wijkbot carrying a stack of bread crates to see how market visitors respond. Market visitors don't bat an eye, and several engage with it. Even without any signage,
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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
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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 what
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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-things:
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