Fantastic talk by Carolina Parada Carolina Parada from Google Deepmind on using LLMs to control and teach robots. LLMs seem to be the hammer we’ve been looking for in personal robotics. The HRI Conference

And the most charming robots of them all at The HRI Conference were of course the Mirokai by Enchanted Tools. Ball-balancing social robots with two-armed manipulation capabilities! 🤖🦾

Oh my, turns out reviewers have massively turned to LLMs to churn out reviews for papers. Not necessarily bad for boiler plate text, but a concern nonetheless.

Morgen met #AIRO IDLab collega’s Annelies Lejon en Tony Belpaeme

People at Flanders Technology & Innovation festival in #Antwerpen are loving our two #LLM powered #furhat robots talking to each other: choose the topic and enjoy the debate! Furhat Robotics UGent #GPT #AI Tony Belpaeme

Two AI-powered robots happily discussing any subject you throw at them. Still no closer to the meaning of life though. #FTIfestival Antwerp ⁦UGent⁩ ⁦IDLab⁩.

🚨 OpenAI has released new AI videos created by artists and filmmakers using Sora. Look at these 6 crazy examples: 1. “Air Head” by Shy Kids

Bye hydraulics powered Atlas, it was a wonderful decade. Looking forward to seeing your progeny.

1. What are the ethical and societal implications of advanced AI assistants? What might change in a world with more agentic AI? Our new paper explores these questions: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media… It’s the result of a one year research collaboration involving 50+ researchers… a🧵

Check out three demo tips from our Flanders Technology & Innovation Festival experience and grab the code for a simple, eye-catching message display interface to speed up your next demo: dev.to/giubots/three-… #AcademicTwitter #softwaredemo #chatinterface #phd #phdjourney #phdlife #phdtips

‘We have to ask ourselves how meaningful political discussions of AI safety are, if they don’t cover military uses of the technology’ Marietje Schaake on.ft.com/49YSlJ6

Back on April 1st I posted my three laws of robotics. Here are my three laws of AI. 1. When an AI system performs a task, human observers immediately estimate its general competence in areas that seem related. Usually that estimate is wildly overinflated. 2. Most successful AI

I've been working in multimodal AI for human-robot interaction research field for 15 years, specializing in emotion and expressivity. The OpenAI demo was freaking impressive. Some thoughts. 🧵

What an impressive feat from the UGent Racing team. A student-built autonomous electric racing car. 80 students working 9 months to deliver a beast of vehicle ready to compete this summer. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture UGent IDLab

Met Tony Belpaeme in De Tijd over miljardenrace rond humanoid robots: tijd.be/ondernemen/alg…

The MSc theses I’m reading this year contain on average 27% more pages than last years’. Cheers ChatGPT.

Very charming read… Acknowledgments in PhD theses. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/ne…

The size and scope of this study on universal basic income is just spectacular. [oversimplification warning] Free $1000/month has only a very modest effect on employment measures.

Livid about how the US US Embassy Brussels botched the visa application of one our researchers. Three months of red tape, and still no decision to attend a simple academic conference. RO-MAN 2024 Too often academics get caught up in international political games.

Doe mee! 'Sociale robot'-wedstrijd Dwengo vzw voor 1ste en 2de graad secundair onderwijs #Excellentiefonds 2024-2025