INVITED TALKS
AUEB - Athens University of Economics and Business – 2005
AUS – American University of Sharjah – Nov. 2005
AUD – American University of Dubai – Nov. 2005
Tehran University – Aug. 2006
Beijing Academy of Sciences, Control & Automation Lab – Oct. 2006
National Technical University of Taiwan – Oct. 2006
ITRI – Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan – Oct. 2006
Osaka University, Japan – Oct. 2006
Waseda University, Japan – Oct. 2006
WPI – Worcester Polytechnic Institute – Mar. 2007
ND – Notre Dame University – Apr. 2007
UIUC – University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign, Apr. 2007
UGuelph – Univesity of Guelph, May 2007
UToronto – University of Toronto, May 2007
McMaster University, May 2007
Cyprus National University, May 2007
NYU, New York University Abu Dhabi, Dec 2008
NTUA - National Technical University of Athens, May 2009
ACT – American College of Thessaloniki, May 2009
SEERC – South-East European Research Center, May 2009
HAISS – Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Summer School, Aug 2009
CMU - Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Oct 2009
KUSTAR - Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Dec 2009
EXHIBITS, PERFORMANCES, DEMONSTRATIONS
GETEX 2008 Gulf Education and Training Exhibition, Dubai: IRML Robots Demonstratations
UAEU 2009 Student Recruitment Event in Abu Dhabi and Dubai: IRML Robots Demonstrations
IDEX 2009 International Defense Exhibition, Abu Dhabi: IRML RoboGuard and other robot Demonstrations, Numerous top worldwide military commanders sign in
Researcher’s Night, Research Promotion Institute, Government of Cyprus First public participation demo of Brain-Computer-Interfacing driving a remote humanoid’s movements (Ibn Sina, in IRML lab in UAE)
GITEX 2009 Gulf Information Technology Exhibition, Dubai: IbnSina robot demonstrations, with Acapela Tech
IHEE 2010 International Higher Education Exhibition, Riyadh: IbnSina robot demonstrations, IRML Booth
>100 demos of IRML lab and robots between 2008-09 to VIP guests: ministers (education of Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Brunei etc.), ambassadors (Canada etc.), research lab and research agency directors (including NSF etc.), university presidents and deans (Berkeley, KTH etc.).
