Robotic Innovations of This Week!
“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
MIT's Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind...
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award Recipients
Congratulations to Tao Wang and Zexiang Li, from DJI Global, for contributions to the development and commercialization of civilian drones, aerial imaging technology, robotics engineering advancement, innovation, and entrepreneurship...
Personalized "Deep Learning" Equips Robots for Autism Therapy
Children with autism spectrum conditions often have trouble recognizing the emotional states of people around them — distinguishing a happy face from a fearful face, for instance. To remedy this, some therapists use a kid-friendly robot to demonstrate those emotions...
Robotic Innovations from ETH Zurich Autonomous System Laboratory
At the recent IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Brisbane, Australia, the Best Student Paper award went to ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL)’s Miguel de la Iglesia Valls et al.
Technology
Learning Montezuma's Revenge from a Single Demonstration
We've trained an agent to achieve a high score of 74,500 on Montezuma’s Revenge from a single human demonstration, better than any previously published result.
Capture the Flag: the Emergence of Complex Cooerperative Agents
Now, through new developments in reinforcement learning, our agents have achieved human-level performance in Quake III Arena Capture the Flag, a complex multi-agent environment and one of the canonical 3D first-person multiplayer games.
Learning Task-Oriented Grasping for Tool Manipulation from Simulated Self-Supervision
In this paper, we propose the Task-Oriented Grasping Network to jointly optimize both task-oriented grasping of a tool and the manipulation policy for that tool. The training process of the model is based on largescale simulated self-supervision with procedurally generated tool objects.
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New Chips, L4 Autonomous Bus & Baidu Brain 3.0 Showcased at Baidu Create 2018
At the Baidu Create 2018 AI developer conference which kicked off today in Beijing, the company announced a series of AI-based innovations and product releases that seem designed to regain public trust.
China Has 4,040 AI Companies; Beijing Drives Industry Development
China now has some 4,040 AI companies, according to a whitepaper released by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology at this weekend’s 22nd China International Software EXPO in Beijing.
Global AI Events
| SIGIR | Detroit, USA. | |
| Applied AI Summit | London, UK. | ||
| 10-11 Jul | Mobile Beat | San Francisco, USA. | |
| 10-12 Jul | Computing Conference | London, UK. | |
| 10-15 Jul | ICML | Stockholm, Sweden. | |
| 13–19 Jul | IJCAI-ECAI | Stockholm, Sweden. |
Global AI Opportunities
Cape Analystics needs Machine Learning Specialist - Deep Learning and Software Engineer in Munich, Germany and Mountain View, CA.
SparkCognition is looking for Data Scientist - Computer Vision/Autonomy/Security to join in their R&D Lab in Austin, TX.
Twiggle is hiring NLP Engineer, Algorithm Engineer, Knowledge Engineer and Software Engineer in Tel Aviv, New York.
ZestFinance wants Data Scientist (specialized in machine learning) and Machine Learning Engineer in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.
