I am presenting our demo system :"DISPUTOOl: a tool for argumentative analysis in political debates" at @IJCAIconf , #IJCAI2019 Please come to our demo booth tomorrow if you are interested. 15 August, 9:30-18:00 , Hall A , #11044 @serena_villata@ECabriopic.twitter.com/4y422JQf6h
"The performance of a neural network depends on the quality of its learning materials and not just on quantity. [Furthermore,] you cannot do w/ statistics, neural networks, and deep learning alone."#IJCAI2019 panel "50 years of IJCAI"#AI@IJCAIconf
The main IJCAI2019 conference started on August 13th. The organizers gave the opening remarks and statistics, and announced the award winners for this year.
It’s the start of #ijcai2019 in Macau. I was last here 22 years ago, and it’s nice to be back. Over the next 2-3 days I’m hoping to post a few links and descriptions of the exciting search work my students and colleagues will be presenting here. pic.twitter.com/BITqFR9hiM
“Human-level intelligence or animal-like abilities” by Adnan Darwiche.
#ijcai2019#day4 invited talk on ‘Reasoning about the Behavior of AI Systems' by Adnan Darwiche (UCLA) – Ijcai2019 at Cotai Expo in the Venetian Macau에서 https://t.co/fuUNU5lGqx
In his 2019 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize talk, Matti Järvisalo nicely emphasises the enormous impact of automated reasoning in #AI and beyond and shines a bright light on one of #AI's largest intellectual and commercial successes to date. pic.twitter.com/3RehpA9HCM
Produced by UAS Magazine, the UAS Summit & Expo will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the current state of the unmanned aircraft systems industry.
Grand Forks, ND — (July 23, 2019) — UAS Magazine announced the keynote speakers for the 2019 UAS Summit & Expo, the upper Midwest’s premier unmanned aircraft systems event, taking place August 27-28 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
“We are excited and honored to have the leaders from several major aviation organizations presenting at this year’s UAS Summit. With General David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff and senior uniformed Air Force officer, the Summit will provide an opportunity for attendees and exhibitors alike to hear firsthand how the U.S. Air Force views the future of UAS. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell will join General Goldfein on stage to offer the FAA’s input on the unmanned aviation space,” says Luke Geiver, editor and program director for UAS Magazine. “Senator John Hoeven from North Dakota, often referred to as the Silicon Valley of Drones, will join Goldfein and Elwell on stage in what should be an exciting, unique and powerful one-hour keynote presentation.”
This year’s agenda has been created with informative and timely presentations. The agenda will feature speakers with expertise on a specific topic area, including: the current state of the UAS industry; realizing beyond visual line of sight; or finding the future use of UAS in large and small operations.”
The 2019 program will have presentations given by the most influential UAS entities from the world, such as:
Northrop Grumman General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Northern Plains UAS Test Site SkySkopes Grand Sky L3 Harris Technologies Echodyne NASA FAA USAF and more
The
Summit, taking place in the original epicenter of drone research,
offers the most open airspace in the country. The Northern Plains has
become the “Silicon Valley of Drones” and the sky is now filled with
activity from commercial, government and military users.
“This
year’s Summit may be the most informative and meaningful event we’ve
ever assembled” says John Nelson, vice president of marketing and sales
for UAS Magazine.
“Whether you are commercial or military, you will gain comprehensive
insight and network with the industry’s top leaders. Grand Forks is
where commercialization and innovation are happening.”
About UAS Magazine For commercial manufacturers and operators, UAS Magazine
highlights the most critical developments and cutting-edge technologies
for unmanned aerial systems in the civil, agriculture, defense and
commercial markets worldwide. UAS Magazine’s
readership includes executives, directors, managers and operators from
companies and organizations focused on expanding their knowledge of
unmanned aerial systems. UAS Magazine is an industry hub connecting decision-makers, who are looking for new technologies, with the most innovative companies.
ABB Robotics to develop solutions for the Hospital of the Future Press release | Zurich, Switzerland | 2019-07-10
estimated to reach nearly 60,000 non-surgical medical robots by 2025, almost
quadrupling vs. 2018
ABB announced that it will introduce
collaborative robots to medical laboratories as it opens a new healthcare hub at
the Texas Medical Center (TMC) innovation campus in Houston, Texas.
The facility will be ABB’s first dedicated
healthcare research center when it opens in October 2019. ABB’s research team will work on the TMC campus with medical staff,
scientists and engineers to develop non-surgical medical robotics systems,
including logistics and next-generation automated laboratory technologies.
Sami Atiya, President of ABB’s Robotics and Discrete Automation business said, “The next-generation laboratory processes developed in Houston will speed manual medical laboratory processes, reducing and eliminating bottlenecks in laboratory work and enhancing safety and consistency. This is especially applicable for new high-tech treatments, such as the cancer therapies pioneered at the Texas Medical Center, which today require manual and time-consuming test processes.”
Today, a limiting factor to the number of
patients who can be treated is the need for highly skilled medical experts who spend
a large part of their day doing repetitive and low value tasks, such as
preparing slides and loading centrifuges. Using robots to automate these tasks
will enable medical professionals to focus on more highly skilled and
productive work, while ultimately helping more people to receive treatment
through dramatically speeding the testing process.
ABB has analyzed a wide range of current manual medical laboratory processes and estimates that 50% more tests could be carried out every year using automation, while training robots to undertake repetitive processes will reduce the need for people to do tasks which cause repetitive strain injury (RSI).
As the world population ages, countries are spending an increasingly larger proportion of their GDP on healthcare. In addition to improving the quality of patient care, increasing healthcare efficiency through automation can ease some of the societal, political and financial challenges that this will cause. The market for non-surgical medical robots is estimated to reach nearly 60,000 by 2025 with the market almost quadrupling vs. 2018, according to an internal ABB research.
ABB’s collaborative robots, which already operate in food and beverage laboratories worldwide, are well suited to medical facilities as they don’t require safety fences to operate safely and efficiently alongside people. The robots will undertake a range of repetitive, delicate and time-consuming activities including dosing, mixing and pipetting tasks as well as sterile instrument kitting and centrifuge loading and unloading.
Houston is a focal point for medical technology research globally and the TMC innovation ecosystem is the ideal location for ABB’s new healthcare hub. A 20-strong team from ABB Robotics will work in the new 5,300 sq ft (500m2) research facility, which includes an automation laboratory and robot training facilities, as well as meeting spaces for co-developing solutions with innovation partners.
Image Source: ABB Robotics – www.abb.com
“With this exciting partnership, Texas Medical Center continues to push the boundaries of innovative collaboration with cutting-edge industry partners by establishing TMC as the epicenter for ABB Robotics’ entry into the healthcare space,” said Bill McKeon, President & CEO of Texas Medical Center. “Operating a city within a city that sees 10 million patients on an annual basis, it is essential to prioritize efficiency, and precision and to develop processes that are easily repeatable in nature. By bringing ABB into the fold at TMC Innovation with this first-of-its-kind R&D facility for creating robotics solutions in healthcare, TMC is emphasizing its commitment to doing just that.”
“We are proud to co-develop collaborative robotics systems for the Hospital of the Future with one of the world’s most advanced partners and to test them in real-world laboratories to ensure they add value to healthcare professionals, driving innovation and transforming how medical laboratories operate worldwide,” added Atiya. “A key element of ABB’s long-term growth strategy is to continue to invest and innovate in service robotics, bringing our automation expertise to new areas such as healthcare and building on our automotive and electronics sectors business.”
ABB (ABB: NYSE) is a pioneering technology leader with a comprehensive offering for digital industries. With a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB is today a leader in digital industries with four customer-focused, globally leading businesses: Electrification, Industrial Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation, supported by its common ABB Ability digital platform. ABB’s market‑leading Power Grids business will be divested to Hitachi in 2020. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees.
ABB Robotics is a pioneer
in industrial and collaborative robots and advanced digital services. As one of
the world’s leading robotics suppliers, we are active in 53 countries and over
100 locations and have shipped over 400,000 robot solutions for a diverse range
of industries and applications. We help our customers to improve flexibility,
efficiency, safety and reliability, while moving towards the connected and
collaborative factory of the future. www.abb.com/robotics
ABOUT TMC INNOVATION
Texas Medical Center (TMC)—the largest medical city in
the world—is at the forefront of advancing life sciences. Home to the
brightest minds in medicine, TMC nurtures
cross-institutional collaboration, creativity, and innovation among its 106,000-plus
employees. With a campus of more than 50 million square feet, TMC annually
hosts 10 million patients, performs over 180,000 surgeries, conducts over
750,000 ER visits, performs close to 14,000 heart surgeries, and delivers over
25,000 babies. Beyond patient care, TMC is pushing the boundaries of clinical
research across its extensive network of partner institutions on a daily basis,
pioneering effective health policy solutions to address the complex health care
issues of today, and cultivating cutting-edge digital health applications and
medical devices. For more information, please visit www.tmc.edu.
Picking is a specific, repetitive task that takes place in every fulfillment warehouse. It’s also one of the biggest expenses, often making up more than half of operational costs.
The modern-day desire for efficiency through automation has spread its way into every industry. Even in the agriculture sector, unmanned ground vehicles are being considered to supplement work with crops and improve farm management.
Like smartphones and PCs, robotics began as a hardware revolution, but today, software is the force that’s reshaping the industry. Are you ready? Here are six crucial questions every company needs to ask about the software behind their robotic solutions
TOKYO/SEATTLE/LOS ANGELES/LONDON, June 6, 2019 – After much
anticipation, ANA HOLDINGS INC., HaptX, SynTouch, Shadow Robot Company unveiled
the next generation of robotics technology at the Amazon Re:Mars Expo.
Incorporating the latest advances from across the field of robotic and united
by the ingenuity of ANA, the teleoperation and the telepresence system features
the first robotic hand to successfully transmit touch sensations. Jeff Bezos
Amazon’s CEO tried out the touch-sensitive, dexterous haptic robotic hand
set up in an exhibit hall at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and
described the experience as “weirdly natural.”
Bezos started out with a simple task:
picking up a plastic cup and dropping it onto a stack of cups. He then played
around with a palm-sized soccer ball and a rainbow ring-stacking puzzle stating
“OK, this is really cool.” It was the first time the collaborators of this
teleoperation and telepresence technology displayed their creation outside the
lab, to an audience made up of experts in machine learning, automation, robotics
and space, as well as the general public and to the world’s richest person,
Jeff Bezos.
Speaking to GeekWire Aerospace and Science
Editor, Alan Boyle, Bezos looked over at the Rubik’s Cube on the table. “You
want me to solve that Rubik’s Cube?” he joked. “I can’t even do that with my
hands!” When it was time to move on, Bezos gave his trademark laugh and said,
“that is really impressive.” He went on to say, “the tactile feedback is really
tremendous.” After taking off the haptic gloves, one of the spectators asked
Bezos how it felt. “Weirdly natural” he responded.
By combining Shadow Robot’s world-leading dexterous robotic
hand with SynTouch’s biomimetic tactile sensors and HaptX’s realistic haptic
feedback gloves, the new technology enables unprecedented precision
remote-control of a robotic hand. In
recent tests, a human operator in California was able to operate a computer
keyboard in London, with each keystroke detected through fingertip sensors on
their glove and faithfully relayed 5000 miles to the Dexterous Hand to
recreate. Combining touch with
teleoperation in this way is ground-breaking and points to future applications
where we might choose – or need – to perform delicate actions at a distance,
e.g. bomb disposal, deep-sea engineering or even surgery performed across
different states.
Kevin Kajitani, Co-Director of ANA
HOLDINGS INC. Avatar Division says, “We are only beginning to scratch the surface of what
is possible with these advanced Avatar systems and through telerobotics in
general. In addition to sponsoring the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE, we’ve approached
our three partner companies to seek solutions that will allow us to develop a
high performance, intuitive, general-purpose Avatar hand. We believe that this
technology will be key in helping humanity connect across vast distances.”
Jake Rubin, Founder and CEO of HaptX says, “Our sense of touch is a
critical component of virtually every interaction. The collaboration between
HaptX, Shadow Robot Company, SynTouch, and ANA brings a natural and realistic
sense of touch to robotic manipulation for the first time, eliminating one of
the last barriers to true telepresence.”
Dr. Jeremy Fishel, Co-Founder of
SynTouch says, “Users will see just how essential the sense of touch
is when it comes to dexterity and manipulation and the various applications it
can have within industry.”
Rich Walker, Managing Director of the
Shadow Robot Company says, “Our remotely controlled system can help transform work within
risky environments such as nuclear decommissioning and we’re already in talks
with the UK nuclear establishment regarding the application of this advanced
technology. It adds a layer of safety between the worker and the radiation zone
as well as increasing precision and accuracy within glovebox-related tasks.”
Paul Cutsinger, Head of Voice Design
Education at Amazon Alexa says, “re:MARS embraces an optimistic vision for scientific
discovery to advance a golden age of innovation and this teleoperation
technology by the Shadow Robot Company, SynTouch and HaptX more than fits the
bill. It must be seen.”
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Image Source: Shadow Robot Company – www.shadowrobot.com Image Source: Shadow Robot Company – www.shadowrobot.com
About ANA
Following the
“Inspiration of Japan” high quality of service, ANA has been awarded
the respected 5-Star rating every year since 2013 from SKYTRAX. ANA is the only Japanese airline to win this
prestigious designation seven years in a row. Additionally, ANA has
been recognized by Air Transport World as “Airline of the Year” three
times in the past 10 years – 2007, 2013 and 2018, becoming one of the few
airlines winning this prestigious award for multiple times.
ANA was founded
in 1952 with two helicopters and has become the largest airline in Japan, as
well as one of the most significant airlines in Asia, operating 80
international routes and 118 domestic routes. ANA offers a unique dual hub
model which enables passengers to travel to Tokyo and connect through the two
airports in the metropolitan Tokyo, NARITA and HANEDA, to various destinations
throughout Japan, and also offers same day connections between various North
American, Asian and Chinese cities.
ANA has been a
member of Star Alliance since 1999 and has joint venture partnerships with
United Airlines, Lufthansa German Airlines, Swiss International Airlines and
Austrian Airlines.
Besides the full
service and award winner carrier ANA, the ANA Group has two LCCs
as consolidated subsidiaries, Vanilla Air Inc. and Peach Aviation Limited.
The ANA Group carried 53.8 million passengers in FY2017, has
approximately 39,000 employees and a fleet of 260 aircraft. ANA is a
proud launch customer and the biggest operator of the Boeing 787
Dreamliner.
Founded in 2012 by Jake Rubin and Dr. Robert Crockett, HaptX is a
technology company that simulates touch sensation with unprecedented realism.
HaptX Gloves enable natural interaction and realistic haptic feedback
for virtual reality, teleoperation, and telepresence for the first time.
HaptX is a venture-backed startup with offices in San Luis Obispo, CA and
Seattle, WA. www.haptx.com
About SynTouch Inc.
SynTouch
developed and makes the only sensor technology in the world that endows robots
with the ability to replicate – and sometimes exceed – the human sense of
touch. Its flagship product – the BioTac – mimics the physical properties and
sensory capabilities of the human fingertip. Founded in 2008 and headquartered
in Los Angeles, SynTouch develops tactile instrumentation that helps customers
quantify how their products feel. www.syntouchinc.com
About Shadow Robot Company:
The Shadow Robot Company is one of the UK’s leading robotic developers, experts at grasping and manipulation for robotic hands. Shadow has worked with companies and researchers across the globe, looking at new ways to apply robotics technologies to solve real-world problems. They develop and sell the Dexterous Hand, recently used to advance research into AI, and the Modular Grasper, an essential tool for supporting industry 4.0. Their new Teleoperation System is being developed for the AVATAR X space program (their third space collaboration after NASA and ESA) and can be deployed in nuclear safety and pharma labs. www.shadowrobot.com
The Tactile Telerobot is the world’s first haptic telerobotic system that transmits realistic touch feedback to an operator located anywhere in the world. It is the product of joint collaboration between Shadow Robot Company, HaptX, and SynTouch. All Nippon Airways funded the project’s initial research and development. It has been described as ” Weirdly natural… this is really impressive, the tactile feedback is really tremendous !” by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos. Learn more at tactiletelerobot.com
Interested readers can also view further information at: https://www.shadowrobot.com/telerobots/
And here is a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZYn62OId8&feature=youtu.be
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With New Patent Granted, AKA Brings a Step
Closer to More Affective Human-Robot Interaction
Santa Monica, CA, April 12, 2019 — AKA, an AI development company, today
announced the issuance of PCT Patent (PCT/KR2018/006493, REG 1019653720000) for
“Method of Determining Emotion of
Computer Dialogue Agents.”
The
patented technology involves a method for determining the emotions of computer
dialogue agents.
Developed
based on a psychoevolutionary theory–Plutchik’s
wheel of emotions–which classifies emotions to eight basic categories,
AKA’s new patented technology makes it possible to determine the emotion of a
computer dialogue agent by using dimensionality reduction techniques to map
sentences into a color-emotion space.
To determine the emotional content of a sentence, the method employs dimensionality reduction techniques to map emotions as points in the three dimensional space. It uses sentences’ pleasure, arousal and dominance values produced by a regression algorithm trained on in-house data to project a point into the 3-dimensional coordinate system. The point is then mapped into a color-emotion space as specified by Plutchik’s wheel of emotions. The final value of the emotion is determined by the point’s position in the color-emotion space: the type of emotion, the intensity of emotion, as well as a color to represent it. This information is finally used to determine the facial expression of Musio, the color of its heart, and as a parameter in guiding the dialogue between the user and Musio.
Source AKA – www.akaintelligence.com
“We believe
this is a very important patent received,” said Raymond Jung, CEO of AKA. “it
will further strengthen our AI Engine, MUSE, with more accurate emotional
expressions in human-robot communications.”
For more
information about AKA’s patent in Method of Determining Emotion of Computer,
please visit here.
About AKA
AKA is
developing AI engines to help improve communication between people and all
things digital. AKA’s technology integrates artificial intelligence and big
data to more effectively deliver essential communication tools, such as
speaking, writing, facial expressions, and gestures, that are often overlooked.
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“The hardware innovation is still trailing behind, and most of the value related to cobots does not come from collaboration. It comes through ease-of-use, re-programmability, lower total cost compared to industrial systems, and re-deployability.
Here’s our daily update in tweets, live from IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau. Like yesterday, we’ll be covering tutorials and workshops.
Now: "Dialogues with Socially Aware Robot Agents – Knowledge & Reasoning using Natural Language," an invited #IJCAI2019 talk by Prof. Kristiina Jokinen
#HAI19 is now over! Amazing day with lots of great discussions, talks, poster sessions and so on! Congratulations to Shane and Sharmila for winning the best paper and best lightning talk award! Thank you everyone, and see you again next year! @IJCAIconfpic.twitter.com/f5tQHgseIV
#HAI19 is half done! Great keynotes from Rui Yan and @danmcduff – you guys gave nice insights! Very interesting Lightning Talks followed! After lunch, a poster session is lined up followed by more invited talks from @vdignum@rafal_rzepka and Pascale Fung. @IJCAIconfpic.twitter.com/XpDd5KHBQ8
#SCAI_Workshop poster session is happening in the Hall A. Here is an approximate map on how to get there from the workshop room (2501): go behind the escalator and turn right. pic.twitter.com/mgCkUprIWp
#ijcai2019#day3 workshop on ‘AI for social good’ Invited talk on ‘The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness: A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning’ by Sharad Goel(Stanford) 알고리듬에 따른 결정이 공정 할까요? 공정성을 확보하기 위해 주로 https://t.co/oL5Y5mYBB7
Current research is aligned with the need of rescue workers but robustness and ease of use remain significant barriers to adoption, NCCR Robotics researchers find after reviewing the field and consulting with field operators.
Robots for search and rescue are developing at an impressive pace, but they must become more robust and easier to use in order to be widely adopted, and researchers in the field must devote more effort to these aspects in the future. This is one of the main findings by a group of NCCR Robotics researchers who focus on search-and-rescue applications. After reviewing the recent developments in technology and interviewing rescue workers, they have found that the work by the robotics research community is well aligned with the needs of those who work in the field. Consequently, although current adoption of state-of-the-art robotics in disaster response is still limited, it is expected to grow quickly in the future. However, more work is needed from the research community to overcome some key barriers to adoption.
The analysis is the result of a group effort from researchers who participate in the Rescue Robotics Grand Challenge, one of the main research units of NCCR Robotics, and has been published in the Journal of Field Robotics.
With this paper, the researchers wanted to take stock of the current state-of-the-art of research on rescue robotics, and in particular of the advancements published between 2014 and 2018, a period that had not yet been covered by previous scientific reviews.
“Although previous surveys were only a few years old, the rapid pace of development in robotics research and robotic deployment in search and rescue means that the state-of-the-art is already very different than these earlier assessments” says Jeff Delmerico, first author of the paper and formerly a NCCR Robotics member in Davide Scaramuzza’s Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich. “More importantly, rather than just documenting the current state of the research, or the history of robot deployments after real-world disasters, we were trying to analyze what is missing from the output of the research community in order to target real-world needs and provide the maximum benefit to actual rescuers”.
The paper offers a comprehensive review of research on legged, wheeled, flying and amphibious robots, as well as of perception, control systems and human-robot interfaces. Among many recent advancements, it highlights how learning algorithms and modular designs have been applied to legged robots to make them capable of adapting to different missions and of being resilient to damages; how wheeled and tracked robots are being tested in new applications such as telepresence for interacting with victims or for remote firefighting; how a number of strategies are being investigated for making drones more easily transportable and able to change locomotion mode when necessary. It details advancements in using cameras for localization and mapping in areas not covered by GPS signals, and new strategies for human-robot interaction that allow users to pilot a drone by pointing a finger or with the movements of the torso.
In order to confirm whether these research directions are aligned with the demands coming from the field, the study authors have interviewed seven rescue experts from key agencies in the USA, Italy, Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands. The interviews have revealed that the key factors guiding adoption decisions are robustness and ease of use.
“Disaster response workers are reluctant to adopt new technologies unless they can really depend on them in critical situations, and even then, these tools need to add new capabilities or outperform humans at the same task” Delmerico explains. “So the bar is very high for technology before it will be deployed in a real disaster. Our goal with this article was to understand the gap between where our research is now and where it needs to be to reach that bar. This is critical to understand in order to work towards the technologies that rescue workers actually need, and to ensure that new developments from our NCCR labs, and the robotics research community in general, can move quickly out of the lab and into the hands of rescue professionals”.
Robotic research platforms have features that are absent from commercial platforms and that are highly appreciated by rescue workers, such as the possibility to generate 3D maps of a disaster scene. Academic efforts to develop new human-robot interfaces that reduce the operator’s attention load are also consistent with the needs of stakeholder. Another key finding is that field operators see robotic systems as tools to support and enhance their performance rather than as autonomous systems to replace them. Finally, an important aspect of existing research work is the emphasis on human-robot teams, which meets the desire of stakeholders to maintain a human in the loop during deployments in situations where priorities may change quickly.
On the critical side, though, robustness keeps rescuers from adopting technologies that are “hot” for researchers but are not yet considered reliable enough, such as Artificial Intelligence. Similarly, the development of integrated, centrally organized robot teams is interesting for researchers, but not so much for SAR personnel, who prefer individual systems that can more easily be deployed independently of each other.
NCCR Robotics researchers note that efforts to develop systems that are robust and capable enough for real-world rescue scenarios have been hitherto insufficient. “While it is unrealistic to expect robotic systems with a high technology readiness level to come directly from the academic domain without involvement from other organizations” they write, “more emphasis on robustness during the research phase may accelerate the process of reaching a high level for use in deployment”. The ease of use, endurance, and the capabilities to collection and quickly transmit data to rescuers are also important barriers to adoption that the research community must focus on in the future.
Literature
J. Delmerico, S. Mintchev, A. Giusti, B. Gromov, K. Melo, T. Horvat, C. Cadena, M. Hutter, A. Ijspeert, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, R. Siegwart, D. Scaramuzza, “The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics“, Journal of Field Robotics, DOI: 10.1002/rob.21887
The first two days at IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau were focussed on workshops and tutorials. Here’s an overview in tweets.
Tutorials The AI Universe of “Actions”: Agency, Causality, Commonsense and Deception
#ijcai2019#day2 Tutorial on ‘The AI Universe of “Actions”: Agency, Causality, Commonsense and Deception’ by Chitta Baral (ASU) and Tran Cao Son (NMSU) 끊임없이 변하는 Actions을 이해하는 것은 상황 인식, 계획, 상식, 인과 추론 등 AI 전분야에서 핵심적인 https://t.co/qQIzqLaLkW
IJCAI, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is happening from the 10th to 16th August in Macao, China. We’ll be posting updates throughout the week thanks to the AIhub Ambassadors on the ground. Stay tuned.
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digital platform. ABB’s market‑leading Power Grids business will be divested to Hitachi in 2020. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees.
