HOW WILL ROBOTS CHANGE OUR CITIES?
CivicTechTO Meetup Dec 8, 2015
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Get Your Bot On!
• BUILD a robot in 36 hours
• COLLABORATE in Interdisciplinary Teams
• EXPERIMENT with new hardware
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Nov 2012
• Host: Mozilla • Participants: 60 • Projects: 19 • Mentors and Judges:
13 • Volunteers: 19
Nov 2014 “Aging at Home”
• Host: Science Centre • Participants: 78 • Projects: 21 • Mentors and Judges:
19 • Volunteers: 31
Sept 2015 “Healthy: People and
Environments”
• Host: MaRS • Participants: 95 • Projects: 21 • Mentors and Judges:
19 • Volunteers: 18
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Lady Sterling
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SnakeBot
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Please Touch
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InstaGramma
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Emocat
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Paper Flame Throwing Bot
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WHAT IS A ROBOT?
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Input from the
Environment
• Sensors • Human Input • Data/other robot
input
Compute
• Microcontroller/Microprocessor
• Simple logic circuit • Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning
Move • Actuators • Motors
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Robots You Know
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Before the Google Car
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The Robots Are Already Here
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Robots in Toronto
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Robotics Specialties
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How will robots change our cities?
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• Transportation • Commerce
• Jobs
• Daily Living
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Transportation
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Commerce
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Jobs
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Daily Living
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Adriana Ieraci, Founder @adrianai
adriana@getyourboton.com 416-414-9857
Get Your Bot On! Robotics Hackathon
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