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RoboDays - Robot Festival in Odense

As the tradition prescreibes RoboDays once again fills Odense with robots, when Robot Festival is held from the 10th – 12th September 2009. Again RoboDays gives you three exciting days where you can experience and play with robots in all sizes and shapes.

September 10. 2009 - September 12. 2009
Kulturmaskinen, Farvergården, Flakhaven and Munkemose, 5000 Odense C (free entrance).

Meet robots that move and will move you. Experience robots that will surprise you, play with you and help you. Discover new technology that will change your life forever.

Experience and play with new robots for the home, workplace and agriculture. Experiment with the robots and see scientists' predictions about robot technology in the future. Technology that will be an increasingly important part of our lives. Build your own robot, control a robot with your eye movements and much, much more.

See the programme underneath. You can also download the programme for printing.

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Green Robotics - Conference on GREEN Robots

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On Wednesday, 9 September, the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Eva Kjer Hansen will kickstart a day highlighting green robot technology. The day includes a range of workshops and presentations dealing with the latest developments in robots for agriculture, as well as sustainability and optimised forms of production using robot technology and design for agriculture and gardening.

Location:
Magasinet, Brandts Passage 26, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Wednesday 9th September, 08.00 am - 5.00 pm

Read more on the conference at www.agroboticnetwork.dk

TrashRobot - DIY robots

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Is your robot a true terminator, a hero from outer space, or a sweet robot dog that wags its tail? You decide. Come and build your own robot from trash and show what you think a robot should look like. All of the robots will be exhibited at the festival and the best robots will be shown on RoboDays' website. The best robot wins a cool prize.

Build your own robot out of egg trays, milk cartons and other types of trash. You can borrow glue, paint and other materials from our genuine trash robot building experts, who will help you make the robot of your dreams!

Participation is free and everyone is welcome, but the activity is primarily for children aged 6 to 12. School classes may reserve a free 2-hour TrashRobot workshop. Write to booking@robocluster.dk

Location:
Flakhaven, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Thursday 10th September 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Friday 11th September 9.00 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday 12th September 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Robots That Move

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RoboDays presents a different and inspiring exhibition that invites you to experience the hidden aspects of technology, and allows you to touch, sense and experience the latest in robot technology for homes, science and industry. Experience technology of the highest calibre. Visit the interactive sensory room and explore the infinite potential of robots first-hand.

Robots for homes: See how robots can play with you, perform practical chores and generally make everyday life more fun.

Robotter for research: See the latest and most fascinating, strange and pioneering robotic inventions developed by universities and the business world.

Robots for industry and service: See industrial robots that take care of the boring work, and service robots that present new opportunities in care and health.

See what other robots you also can meet on Robots That Move

Robots That Move - PLAY

RoboDays brings robots into children's play and releases the surprising potential of robot technology.

In 2009, University College Lillebælt, Designskolen Kolding and Center for Playware collaborated to find new ways of using play to make robots a part of our lives. Here, robot technology is used for everyday tasks and with tongue-in-cheek humour. A number of companies have participated in the work of gathering inspiration for new robot products that use play to perform tasks in new ways.

Hear the people behind the project explain their ideas and see their prototypes at RoboDays robot festival.

Location:
Kulturmaskinen og Farvergården, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Thursday 10th September 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Friday 11th Sseptember 9.00 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday 12th September 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Robots That Move - LEARNING

Can an octopus teach you how to add fractions? And can you paint with a robot? At the robot festival, you can meet a true maths genius robot that will give all maths teachers grey hair, and you can make a PaintBot paint works of art with just a few commands.

Try out robot technology in a new and lively manner that makes science and technology exciting and tangible. Explore what art, humans and machines have in common. Is robot technology just for scientists or is it much simpler than that? KnowledgeLab suggests some possible answers, and you can decide for yourself.

Experience first-hand how technology can coope-rate with humans and how you can play your way to knowledge that is otherwise difficult to assimilate. For example, the robot octopus can teach you how to add fractions through play.

KnowledgeLab presents the robots, which were developed in cooperation with Mikro Værkstedet A/S and PlayAlive A/S.

Location:
Kulturmaskinen og Farvergården, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Thursday 10th September 9.00 am - 5.00 am
Friday 11th September 9.00 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday 12th September 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Robots That Move - EDUCATION

RoboDays presents the ultimate interactive sensory room. 85 students from around the world combine robots, sensor technology, teaching and interactive design to provide transformational experiences for young people with social problems by challenging their relationship to their surroundings.

This unique collaboration bridging geographic and professional borders represents the education of to-morrow, where cooperative learning makes it possible for students to create innovative results across borders. With their individual skills and culture, they pave the way for new innovation and idea development.

Come and experience the students' invention and see the result of the global cooperation at Munke Mose. The course of education was conducted by SDE College.

Location:
Munke Mose, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Thursday 10th September 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Friday 11th September 9.00 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday 12th September 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Robot Music

At RoboDays' music workshop, you can explore robot music and experiment with musical expressions and cadences in a world of robot-inspired electronic instruments.

Experience how musician and composer Jacob Sikker Remin and his workshop participants create new tones and sounds with unique musical instruments, built from electronic waste. See how the instruments are built and hear their sounds at the music workshop.

You can also experiment with musical building blocks developed by Center for Playware. The building blocks enable you to create your own virtual band and change the musical composition by turning and twisting the blocks.

Location:
Musikbiblioteket, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Thursday 10th September 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Friday 11th September 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday 12th September 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Shared Robotics - Robots and Modern Art

RoboDays presents the art exhibition "Shared Robotics". See art works that build and transform robots for new purposes, where the relationship between humans and robots leads to new creative expressions.

The exhibit presents four very different robot technology installations, featuring a fusion of technology and art. Some works at the exhibition allow you to develop further on their form, their expression and their technology.

A multi-touch wall at the exhibition gives you historical insight into how robots have been interpreted in art and culture through the ages. You can also find this part of the exhibition at www.sharedrobotics.com, where you can contribute your knowledge about robot technology in a user-based robot encyclopedia that will emerge during the exhibition period.

Location:
Kunsthallen Brandts, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Thursday 10th September 12.00 am - 9.00 pm
Friday 11th September 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Saturday 12th September 10.00 am - 5.00 pm

The Exhibition runs to 29th November 2009.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Sabrina Raaf (www.raaf.org) resides in Chicago and has previously worked with art robots that interact with their surroundings. For this exhibition, she is working with the robot company Gibotech A/S to create a work in which one of Gibotech's robots is reprogrammed to cut large patterns out of corrugated plastic. Over time, these patterns are transformed into a sculptural installation spreading out over the floor of the exhibition space, as the work changes throughout the exhibition period.

The Danish artists' collective Illutron (www.illutron.dk) is exhibiting a work entitled "N7331227", which brings an old industrial robot to life. Using computer vision, the robot has been programmed with the ability to see and reproduce visitors' drawings on a large wall.

The German artist Ralf Schreiber (www.ralfschreiber.com) experiments with minimal robot technology. Schreiber's work, "Living Particles #58", consists of a room filled with small robots hanging from the ceiling. Both the installation's design and each of the small robots, which can move and make noises, are reduced to a minimum, creating an overall impression of life in a strict order.

Douglas Repetto resides in New York and is represented with the work "Foal" - a very simple, mechanical robot. In its design and movements, "Foal" seems like a newborn foal struggling to control its legs. Several small foals will toddle around the exhibition space. The work is an open prototype that can be built by those who wish to test their robot building skills. Instructional guides to building the robot are available at the exhibition.

Theatre performance"The Anatomy of the Robot"

What happens when scientists attempt to create a true copy of humans? In "The Anatomy of the Robot", human existence is reflected in the newest knowledge about robot technology and artificial life.

The performance takes place at The Modern Anatomical Theatre, in a combination of dream, reality, theatre and performance. A talented group of actors is featured on stage in Baard Owe, Jeanette Lindbæk Larsen and Morten Steensgaard. In addition to the Border Collie, Sif, and a number of robots, they will be accompanied by physicists, philosophers and robot scientists from the University of Southern Denmark.

Location:
Teaterhuset, Filosofgangen, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Playing from 2nd - 12th September 2009

Dates and ticket prices can be found at www.billetnet.dk

Special prices for students, seniors and young people under 25 years.

RoboDays Electronight

Arranged by Kulturmaskinen.

At RoboDays robot festival, Kulturmaskinen presents a unique concert with three of Denmark's most prominent electronic composers.

On Friday, 11 September at Magasinet, you can experience Martin Hall and Tone, followed by a concert with Mike Sheridan.

Location:
Magasinet, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Friday 11th September 8.00 pm

Price: DKK 115/students DKK 65. Advance sales at www.danbillet.dk

Experience the the robots on first-hand

INTRODUCTIONS

Meet the people behind the robots. Hear what they have to say about the robots they have developed and the reasons for their work. Some of the robots will be presented at the outdoor Amfiscenen at Brants Klædefabrik, and others at the stands where the robots are exhibited.

EyeSeeCam: Robot camera that films what you look at. (English, 15 min.)
Oribotics: Robot flower that reacts to its surroundings. (English, 15 min.)
Momo: Robot navigation system that shows the way via vibration. (English, 10 min.)
Blindjuggler: Robot that can juggle. (English, 15 min.)
MiTii ("Move it To improve it): Training robot for use in the home by people with disabilities. (Danish, 30 min.)

Schools, associations, after school care centres and others can book free presentations via booking@robocluster.dk.

PRESENTATIONS

Hear presentations about topics ranging from "Robots in Popular Science Films" and "LEGO and Learning" to "The Dream of Creating a Machine that can Write" and many more. Some of the presentations are primarily for adults.

Robot film contest for all

Make your own film about robots and participate in a fun contest. The film must be less than five minutes long and the entry deadline is 1 September. Record the film on your mobile telephone, video camera or animate it on your computer. Let your imagination loose!

The films will be judged by a committee and on September 10th the winners will be announced for each of the following categories:
Funniest film · Most creative film · Best story

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Open Workshops

Kulturmaskinen's creative workshops will be open during the RoboDays robot festival.

Find inspiration in the robot festival and make your own clay robot at the clay workshop, sew a robot pillow in the textile workshop, or edit your own robot film in the media/graphic workshop.

Location:
Kulturmaskinen, 5000 Odense C

Time:
Thursday 11th September 11.00 am - 6.00 am
Friday 11th September 11.00 am - 6.00pm
Saturday 12th September 11.00 am - 4.00 pm