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#RoboCup2019 Standard Platform League Competition Day 1

Katie Genter 04 Jul 2019

Twenty teams are competing in the Standard Platform League (SPL) at RoboCup 2019 in Sydney this week. However, the experience and skills of the league's teams vary greatly, from six-time champion B-Hu...

#RoboCup2019 @Home – competition setup and first day

Maru Cabrera 04 Jul 2019

I'll be reporting three sub-leagues of RoboCup @Home (domestic standard, social, and open platform)....

Standard Platform League ready to kick off at #RoboCup2019

Katie Genter 03 Jul 2019

RoboCup 2019 in Sydney opens to the public tomorrow, but participants have already been preparing onsite for two days. There are fifteen RoboCup leagues that are grouped into five categories -- RoboCu...

Live coverage of #RoboCup2019

Sabine Hauert 02 Jul 2019

RoboCup is happening this week at the International Convention Centre in Sydney, Australia. The event is a vehicle to promote robotics and AI research through exciting robot competitions powered by 3,...

EU artificial intelligence ethics checklist ready for testing as new policy recommendations are published

European Commission 29 Jun 2019

The European Commission has just launched the pilot phase of the ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI, as the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence released its policy recommendations....

Tweets from #ICLR2019

Sabine Hauert 16 May 2019

ICRL, the International Conference on Learning Representations, was held May 6th to 9th 2019 in New Orleans. Relive the conference through some of the top tweets (#ICLR2019)....

The Partnership on AI launches initiative to enhance machine learning transparency

AIhub 01 May 2019

The Partnership on AI has announced an initiative to define best practices for transparency in machine learning....

Computing up – Bitter, better, and beyond

Computing Up 11 Apr 2019

In this episode of Computing Up, Michael Littman and Dave Ackley discuss Rich Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" and Rod Brook's "A Better Lesson"....