Here is the video recording of Omar’s PhD defense that took place on June 1st in Eindhoven. We apologize for the bad quality of the video which is mainly due to the dark lighting of the room.
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The national Dutch newspaper Volkskrant did an article on ROILA. Thank you to Mr Peter for the interview discussion and Mike for the picture. Here is a PDF of the article.
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On June 1, Omar Mubin successfully completed his PhD defense on ROILA and was awarded the dr. title.
The ROILA team would like to thank the following committee members and experts without whose cooperation, feedback and support neither the defense nor the research would have been possible.
- Prof. Lyons (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
- Prof. Krahmer (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
- Prof. de Lange (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Dr. Terken (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Steven Canvin (LEGO Mindstorms, Denmark)
- Marjolein Seegers (Christiaan Huygens College, Eindhoven)
A special word of appreciation to Prof. Feijs, Dr. Hu and Dr. Bartneck (who travelled all the way from Christchurch, New Zealand).
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The local newspaper of the TU/e, Cursor did an article about our research in ROILA. Here is a link to the article (in Dutch).
The thesis “ROILA – Robot Interaction Language” has been printed. Please join us for the defense on June 1st, 16:00h in lecture theater 4 of the Auditorium at the Eindhoven University of Technology. This will be followed by a reception in Senaatszaal.
At this moment, we are documenting the entire ROILA project. Soon we will provide this information. It will also include details about the ROILA curriculum and the controlled experiment that we conducted at the Huygens College Eindhoven.
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As an exercise we translated the Asimov Laws of Robotics in ROILA. Alternate translations/comments are welcome.
Law 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Jewomo kilu. Lobo waboki buse nijofa losa bebibe jilufe buno buse jilufe.
Law 1. Robot must no damage man through act or no act.
Law 2: A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Jewomo seju. Lobo waboki nomes jilufe sojan fumene tuji bufo jifi pofan losa kenet similu bopup jewomo kilu.
Law 2. Robot must take act any order(s) give(n) by man, if agreement with Law one.
Law 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Jewomo tewajo. Lobo waboki pisal jalawe bamas fenob fomu takanu kenet similu bopup jewomo kilu sowu jewomo seju.
Law 3. Robot must make safe this life of self, if agreement with Law 1 and Law 2.
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Recently we concluded the first ever ROILA course at the Huygens College Eindhoven. The course lasted for three weeks and was taught to 100 Dutch high school students students spread over 4 classes. The lessons involved practicing ROILA and playing with LEGO robots. All of us (teachers and students included) had alot of fun. So much so the school wants to make it a permanent part of their Science curriculum. They plan to do a repeat of the course for another class in January next year. A follow-on controlled experiment was also conducted which compared the efficacy of learning ROILA to control a robot vs controlling English-savvy robot. ROILA was found to better on both subjective and objective accounts (details coming soon).
We would like to thank the staff and teachers of Huygens College Eindhoven for their support and appreciation. Needless to say the children deserve a special mention too.
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We will be continously updating the ROILA academy section as we progress with the ROILA course at Huygens College, Eindhoven. Please visit the academy to know more about the course and our efforts at the school.
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The first set of 10 ROILA lessons are now uploaded in the ROILA academy. This set is the first version and may be subject to slight revisions. Please feel free to join the ROILA academy which is setup in Moodle. Also uploaded is the relevant glossary for these lessons, both here on the website as well as in the academy on Moodle. Alternatively you might want to have a look at the HTML version of the lessons. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of Jerry Muelver towards the design of the lessons. Please let us know if you have any comments or would like to give us some feedback.
The entire ROILA audience is welcome to study the ROILA lessons. If you are interested in subscribing to the academy please send us an email with your name and location so that we can make an account for you.
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