Labbook UvA @ Home 2025

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Started Labbook 2026.

Read Alpha Mini as a Learning Partner in the Classroom (2023) for the new Social Robotics course.
Other Social Robotics courses in NL:
- Minor at HKU
- Bsc thesis at Groningen University.
- Msc course at VU Amsterdam
The Alpha Mini is programmable with the UBT ROSA system (Android based). Yet, the old resource page contains many SDKs, but not ROSA.
The new education page can be found UBT Robotics. Yet, their current humanoid seems to be the Yanshee, which also ROSA based (Rapberry Pi based). The Alpha Mini is still there, although there is now also Alpha 1E.
Another official list with SDKs is UBTech Education.
Checked uPython v1.1. That gives an empty workspace, but you could add a number of libraries, including scikit-learn (v1.3.2) and tensorflow (v2.13.0). Launching uCodeLink takes ages.
The UBT edu github page has only Yanshee code.
Je kunt de Alpha Mini lenen bij HvA technologie uitleen, or a Pepper or a Sanbot Elf. You should do a robotics training first :-)

The last time I worked with the Portugal MBot from the MOnarCH project was August 17, 2017
The MOnarCH project website is gone, the last web archive is from March 2018.
The MBot is still used in the RoboCup@Home, the latest publication I could fine was A Dynamic Weighted Area Assignment Based on a Particle Filter for Active Cooperative Perception (April 2020).
Another paper with the MBot is A Particle-Filter Approach for Active Perception in Networked Robot Systems (October 2015).
The design of the MBot robot is in A robotic platform for edutainment activities in a pediatric hospital (May 2014).
Couldn't find any Mbot repositories from ISR Lisbon.
I could find a mbot simulation environment at SocRob@Home.
Summary of the people and publications of SocRob team.
At least there is some recent (Nov 2023) documentation, including Human Robot Interaction.
One of the provided resources is the Mbot robot manual, including D2.2.1, with the default username / password on section 8.1.2.