Lectures related to The Globotics Upheaval

Robot Game and Sensors

Explores the interaction between coding and robot behavior through practical exercises.

Inequality: Intervention

Explores the inefficiency of inequality, reasons to care, measures to reduce it, and the impact of taxes and transfers.

Engineering in the Age of AI: Innovations and Challenges

Examines the transformative impact of AI on engineering disciplines and the associated challenges.

National Savings and Investments

Explores the connection between national savings, investments, and borrowing between countries.

Investigating Technologies for Humankind

Serves as a bridge between previous modules, investigating technologies for humankind.

Provably Beneficial AI: Towards Human-level Understanding

Explores provably beneficial AI, aligning AI goals with human preferences and behaviors, illustrating complexities through examples like image classification and fetching coffee.

Economic Growth: Measuring GDP, GPI, and Tertiarisation of Economy

Explores Swiss GDP decomposition, savings dynamics, GPI as an alternative to GDP, and challenges in using GDP as a welfare indicator.

Emergence of Informal Initiatives

Explores the emergence of informal transportation initiatives and challenges in African urban mobility.

Economic Growth: Slowdown and Innovation Failure

Explores the slowdown of economic growth, innovation failure, and challenges in measuring modern economic activity.

Forecasting Methods: Expert Approaches and Professional Predictions

Explores forecasting methods, professional predictions for the Swiss economy, and the quality of anticipations in real estate and economic sectors.

Energy Demand Modeling: Service Sector

Explores modeling energy demand in the service sector and its implications on building characteristics, technologies, and long-term forecasts.

Robots: Everywhere

Explores the widespread presence and diverse applications of robots in various fields.

Economic Growth: Measuring HDI, GPI, and OECD Better Life Index

Explores alternative measures to GDP, HDI, GPI, and OECD Better Life Index for assessing economic growth and well-being.

Vision BeLearn: Learning the Future in the Centre

Explores the vision of BeLearn in digital education transformation and challenges, emphasizing the importance of adapting to digital changes in education.

Economic Globalisation: Key Facts and Geography

Explores key facts and geography shaping economic globalisation, human population history, and climate change.

Protective Feature for FarmBot

Introduces a retractable tarpaulin project for FarmBot, enhancing plant protection.

Inequality: Definition, Measurement & Impacts

Examines inequality, its causes, impacts, and measurement, including income distribution metrics and the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Income Inequality Measurement

Explores income inequality measurement through histograms, summary statistics, and the impact of the pandemic.

Need for Economic Growth: GDP and Happiness

Explores the relationship between economic growth, GDP, and happiness, highlighting the complexities of measuring well-being.

Motor Intelligence for Soft Robots

Explores the control challenge in soft robotic systems and the use of simplified models with nonlinear control theory for dynamic task execution.