Researchers believe robots can be more effective than puppets and other traditional methods of treating children with autism. Roberta Metsola and I making friends with this little guy Dream Project #researchimpactEU

Children with #autism spectrum conditions respond better to robots than humans. That's why #EUfunded researchers from @Dream_FP7 project have designed this partially autonomous robot #ResearchImpactEU

Fruitful Dream Project meeting in SoftBank Robotics Europe

My editorial for IEEE RAS about "Robotic Dreams, Robotic Realities" made it to IEEE Spectrum (with quotes from Tн​e-Mооn-Cɑrl, Giulio Sandini, Chris Atkeson, Tony Belpaeme, Noel Sharkey, Rodney Brooks) spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robo…. thanks Erico Guizzo!

New joint paper: Robot-Enhanced Therapy: Development and Validation of a Supervised Autonomous Robotic System for Autism Spectrum Disorders Therapy. Bram Vanderborght Serge Thill Tony Belpaeme Erik Billing Mark Coeckelbergh Amit Kumar Pandey ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/86839…

Happy faces after a successful final review meeting of Dream Project

The much anticipated English version of the book, Homo Roboticus, has been released and is now available on Amazon USA. The book focuses on creating synergies between man, technology, science & art. More info and book: homo-roboticus.be Amazon: amazon.com/Homo-Roboticus…

Prof Honghai presenting the Dream Project Robotics & Automation Magazine paper at IROS 2019 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/86839…

Onze BruBotics VUB Pepper robot in WZS Den Dumberg met dank aan ZORANAD en Telenet voor wifi. nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf2020041… @MartineTempels Eva De Bleeker Tim Vandenput VUB

Robots kunnen ons begrijpen, en zelfs liefde geven. Helpen bij huiswerk. Of gewoon een gezellig babbeltje slaan. Robotici Bram Vanderborght VUB en Tony Belpaeme UGent praten er uitgebreid over in de nieuwste aflevering van onze podcast Vraag Het Aan: bit.ly/2yl6J2X

Our @BruBotics social @peppertherobot is tested in the VUB university hospital UZ Brussel to remind of rules to fight covid-19, programmed by Cao Hoang Long. Thanks to UZ Brussel Foundation and Marc Noppen uz-brussel.prezly.com/uz-brussel-tes… #HomoRoboticus #AIforCommonGood

Wat zijn robots? Hoe werken ze? Wat zijn de toepassingen? Louise Hoedt van VRT NWS Klaar maakte deze video, met #robot dossier voor leerkrachten. vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2020… BruBotics VUB VUB AI Experience Centre KlasCement.net

The General Chairs and the Steering Committee have decided to take this year’s #Conference fully virtual. Following an assessment of the uncertainty on the pandemic evolution, its impact on travel restrictions and safety, it has been inevitable to make this difficult decision.

Kunnen robots ons helpen om het corona virus te bestrijden? Karrewiet reporter Mirte kwam in BruBotics VUB labo kijken. (met Pepper in UZ Brussel, Cruzr/James van Zora Robotics_Africa, Deblieck Tommy) ketnet.be/kijken/karrewi… (rond 4:00) Ketnet @FlandersMake VUB

New paper in PLOS One on the public release of the dataset from our Dream Project project. Fantastic work with Erik Billing, Tony Belpaeme, Bram Vanderborght, and many more than I can tag here journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

.Tony Belpaeme presenting in Orsi Academy the dream project on using social robots for autism

A new Dream Project BruBotics VUB paper on Robot-assisted joint attention: A comparative study between children with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children in interaction with NAO ()° .°) by Maxtronics ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/92929… by Cao Hoang Long Bram Vanderborght

.Dream Project was part of whitepaper about NAO ()° .°) as a therapeutic mediation tool for children with autism spectrum disorder. softbankroboticseurope.sharefile.eu/share/view/s1b… BruBotics VUB Tony Belpaeme Serge Thill

The Dream Project dataset (journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…) was used in a big data hackaton. The final presentation is available at youtube.com/watch?v=c1z8GD…, around 39 min