What Is Embodied Intelligence and What Can It Do?
UC San Diego Today || Researchers discuss the link between artificial intelligence and robotics at the San Diego Robotics Forum.
Yale commits to invest $150 million into AI development
Yale Daily News || This commitment is in response to the recommendations of the Report of the Yale Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, a set of recommendations for coordinated action and University-wide artificial intelligence investments developed by a team of faculty members who already use AI in their departments. [University Provost Scott] Strobel wrote that […]
Learning Dance Moves Could Help Humanoid Robots Work Better With Humans
UC San Diego Today || “Through expressive and more human-like body motions, we aim to build trust and showcase the potential for robots to co-exist in harmony with humans,” said Xiaolong Wang, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. “We are working to […]
$2.8 million NSF grant will expand AI education and research opportunities for students
San Diego State University News || In collaboration with the NSF Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, the project will focus on diversity within the AI research community.
Creating a diverse and inclusive AI research community is the goal of new NSF awards
The U.S. National Science Foundation is excited to announce a new round of ExpandAI awards dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion within the artificial intelligence research community. “NSF Expanding AI Capacity in San Diego: A Strategic Collaboration between San Diego State University and TILOS AI Institute” aims to expand the AI research, education and infrastructure […]
2024 edition of U.S. robotics roadmap points to need for more federal coordination
The Robot Report || The quadrennial set of recommendations is produced and sponsored by institutions led by the University of California, San Diego. The authors sent the latest edition to presidential campaigns, the AI Caucus in Congress, and the investment community, noted Henrik I. Christensen, main editor of the roadmap.
“Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models” a finalist for the IEEE ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation
Robohub || TILOS Robotics team members Henrik Christensen, Hao Su, and Xiaolong Wang, and graduate student Nicklas Hansen are members of the Open X-Embodiment Collaboration.
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?
Quanta Magazine || By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems.
AI Researchers Present “Average Gradient Outer Product (AGOP)” to Explain how Neural Networks Learn
AIthority || Considered the “black box” of machine learning, AI neural networks can expand the range of innovations and applications in different areas. AGOP is a unifying mathematical mechanism that establishes the core fundamentals explaining how neural networks learn from general machine learning models.
How Do Neural Networks Learn? A Mathematical Formula Explains How They Detect Relevant Patterns
UC San Diego Today || The insights, published in the journal Science, can also be used to make other types of machine learning architectures more effective.