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Nov 1, 2024 | 
robohub.org | Andrea Rafai
Claire chatted to Maria Elena Giannaccini from the University of Aberdeen about soft and bioinspired robotics for healthcare and beyond. Maria Elena Giannaccini has a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Università di Pisa in Italy. She conducted her Master’s thesis at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna as part of the EU-funded OCTOPUS project. In 2015, she obtained her PhD in Robotics at the Bristol Robotics, where she focussed on developing safe, variable stiffness robotic devices.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
robohub.org | Andrea Rafai |Lucy Smith
Claire chatted to Jonathan Walker from Innovate UK about translating robotics research into the commercial sector. Jonathan Walker is the Innovation Lead for Robotics and Sensors at Innovate UK. He is working with government, universities, businesses and cross-sector teams to accelerate the development and uptake of robotics in the UK. Areas of particular interest are the built environment, circular economy, and helping people live independently for longer.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
robohub.org | Andrea Rafai |Lucy Smith
by 18 October 2024 share this: Claire chatted to Esyin Chew from Cardiff Metropolitan University about service and social humanoid robots in healthcare and education. Esyin Chew is the Director of the EUREKA Robotics Centre, one of 11 specialist robotics centres in the UK, impacting underprivileged communities with over 120 humanoid robots.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
robohub.org | Andrea Rafai |Lucy Smith
by 11 October 2024 share this: Claire chatted to Matt Beane from the University of California, Santa Barbara about how humans can learn to work with intelligent machines. Matt Beane conducts field research on robots and AI in the workplace, focusing on positive exceptions applicable to the broader world of work. He has published his award-winning research in top management journals and presented on the TED stage.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
robohub.org | Andrea Rafai |Lucy Smith
Claire chatted to Gisela Reyes-Cruz from the University of Nottingham about how humans interact with, trust and accept robots. Gisela Reyes-Cruz investigates human-computer and human-robot interaction to understand everyday life interactions with technologies, as well as trust in them and public acceptance.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
robohub.org | Andrea Rafai |Lucy Smith
by 27 September 2024 share this: Claire chatted to John Leonard from Massachusetts Institute of Technology about autonomous navigation for underwater vehicles and self-driving cars. John Leonard is a Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
robohub.org | Andrea Rafai
At the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2023, I had the opportunity to interview Jerry Tan from Lattel Robotics, a company dedicated to promoting AI-focused robotics education and training. They work closely with the RoboCup@Home Education initiative, supporting schools and institutions in introducing AI and service robot development to students.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Andrea Rafai |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we find out about explainability and human-robot interaction, serverless computing for machine learning, and deep reinforcement learning for communication networks. We also chat to AAAI President Francesca Rossi, and congratulate the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award winner Catholijn Jonker.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Andrea Rafai |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto |Lucy Smith
At the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) I was lucky enough to catch up with Francesca Rossi, IBM fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, and President of AAAI. There were so many questions I wanted to ask, and we covered some pressing topics in AI today. Andrea Rafai: My first question concerns the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It seems that there is a lot of potential for using AI in helping to work towards the 17 goals.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Andrea Rafai |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto
Amine Barrak at the AAAI conference, Vancouver, in February 2024. The AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. This year, 30 students were selected for this programme, and we’ve been hearing from them about their research.
