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🥳 ✨ "Expanding my skillset in robotics fundamentals at the Siemens Centre of Excellence. Completed a one-day intensive workshop at MIT Campus-Anna University. Excited to apply these insights to future engineering challenges. #ContinuousLearning #RoboticsFundamentals #SiemensWorkshop"

We're thrilled to announce that Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio is this year's recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alan T. Waterman Award. This marks a remarkable achievement as she becomes the first Yale engineer to be honored with the nation's highest accolade for an early-career scientist or engineer. Kramer-Bottiglio's transformative work in robotics challenges the traditional boundaries of the field by developing robots with the capacity to adapt and evolve in real-time to their surroundings, drawing inspiration from the resilience and versatility of biological life. With the $1 million award to advance her research, Kramer-Bottiglio is set to deepen the integration of multifunctional materials into robotics, potentially revolutionizing the future capabilities of robots. https://loom.ly/n_OIZI8 #YaleEngineering #WatermanAward #NSF # #Innovation #Robotics #RoboticsforHumanity #MechanicalEngineering #MaterialsScience #Yale #YaleUniversity #Engineering

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Visiting UC Irvine was very fun and inspiring. I spoke about our recent research in Bridging the Gap between Discrete Agent Strategies in Game Theory and Continuous Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments https://lnkd.in/e6TuXtnB I really enjoyed our discussions Alfred Chen, Joshua Garcia, Habiba Farrukh, Tony Givargis and it was wonderful to catch up with Mohammad Al Faruque, Yasser Shoukry, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Nik Dutt. https://lnkd.in/ePKKZHVm Generating competitive strategies and performing continuous motion planning simultaneously in an adversarial setting is a challenging problem. In addition, understanding the intent of other agents is crucial to deploying autonomous systems in adversarial multi-agent environments. Existing approaches either discretize agent action by grouping similar control inputs, sacrificing performance in motion planning, or plan in uninterpretable latent spaces, producing hard-to-understand agent behaviors. This paper proposes an agent strategy representation via Policy Characteristic Space that maps the agent policies to a pre-specified low-dimensional space. Policy Characteristic Space enables the discretization of agent policy switchings while preserving continuity in control. Also, it provides intepretability of agent policies and clear intentions of policy switchings. Then, regret-based game-theoretic approaches can be applied in the Policy Characteristic Space to obtain high performance in adversarial environments. Our proposed method is assessed by conducting experiments in an autonomous racing scenario using scaled vehicles. Statistical evidence shows that our method significantly improves the win rate of ego agent and the method also generalizes well to unseen environments. PRECISE Center / Penn Engineering (University of Pennsylvania) Penn Engineering University of Pennsylvania UC Irvine #gametheory #autonomoussystems

Why Choose Germany for Your Master’s in Robotics? Germany stands at the forefront of cutting-edge technology and innovation, making it the perfect destination for pursuing a Master’s in Robotics. 🦾🌍 🔹 World-class Universities – Institutions like TU Munich, RWTH Aachen, and more offer exceptional programs. 🔹 Thriving Robotics Industry – Germany is home to top companies like Siemens, Bosch, and KUKA. 🔹 Innovative Research Opportunities – Participate in groundbreaking research in fields like AI, autonomous systems, and industrial automation. 🔹 Global Job Market – A Master’s in Robotics opens doors to global career opportunities. 🔹 Affordable Tuition Fees – Many programs are tuition-free or cost significantly less compared to other countries. Ready to shape the future of robotics? 🚀 #RoboticsMaster #StudyInGermany #FutureTech #RoboticsEngineering #HigherEducation #TechInnovation

This year’s innovation project required ETH students to develop kit-based robots capable of delivering gifts down the chimneys of model-sized houses. The ten best teams will compete against each other in the final on 17 December.

After a four-year hiatus, an interdisciplinary team at Arizona State University has revived the Southwest Robotics Symposium, bringing back an event that was once a mainstay for academics and industry professionals. More than 600 people registered for the conference that took place earlier this month on ASU’s Tempe campus.   Hamid Marvi, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of #ASUEngineering, served as the event’s co-general chair.   “Over the course of two days, we featured an exceptional lineup of invited talks, faculty presentations, student lightning talks, poster sessions and robot demonstrations,” Marvi says. “This event highlighted ASU’s leadership in robotics research and fostered meaningful connections with leaders in the field.”   Nakul Gopalan, an assistant professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence and fellow co-general chair of the symposium says it’s crucial to foster a sense of community.   “Events like these are important for researchers because they create opportunities to explore collaborations that can lead to real advancements,” Gopalan says.

TUM students interested in ethics and robotics, this the lecture for you!

This little video clip isn't anything special, its the background music that has a little extra to it. I created this audio with the help of AI tools. While not perfect or overly impressive in composition, the fact that you can provide a detailed text prompt and get a song back is awesome! #ai #artificialintelligence #aitools

🤖 Celebrating #NationalRoboticsWeek highlighting some of the amazing businesses we have the pleasure of working with. The testimonials from Xiaoyan Ma, Lorenzo Conti and Dale Colley highlight the speed and ease of working with the team at Interface - The knowledge connection for business. We are passionate about supporting growth and innovation, helping you fastrack your business aspirations by identifying and connecting you with skills, knowledge and expertise within Scotland's Universities, Research Institutes and Colleges. Some other exiting companies we have supported along the way showing the diversity of support we can offer across multiple industry sectors: 🐮 #AgriTech - Dyneval improving the sustainability of livestock reproduction using #AI technology for artificial insemination  🎭 #Creative Industry - Black Goblin - developing #ML powered technology allowing creators to design custom sound effects that automatically synchronises with videos 🤖 #BeautyTech - Aisha Janki Akinola - an Innovate UK backed beauty tech start up, using #robotics and #ML that make beauty services more accessible and affordable 💷 #FinTech - Serene - using #AI and behavioural science to financial transaction data to identify, understand, and support vulnerable customers in real-time.