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To calibrate or not to calibrate…

// March 24th, 2012 // No Comments » // Artificial Intelligence, Research

Robot calibration. I would define it as the process by which a robot takes knowledge of the actual position in its body of a given part that is important for it (usually, the sensors), in relation to a given frame of reference (usually the body center). For example, where in the robot body is exactly [...]

Keynote speaker at the International Workshop on Intelligent Domestic Robots

// March 22nd, 2012 // No Comments » // Talks

Current approaches to intelligent service robots follow an idea borrowed from Good-Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI): very complex planning algorithms will produce artificial intelligence. Hence is basically a matter of CPU power to have an operative artificial intelligence for a robot. An example of this believe is the current trend in robotics that uses the cloud [...]

Understanding Understanding (For Service Robots)

// February 18th, 2012 // No Comments » // Artificial Intelligence

The robot looks at the can. Then computes a long list of conditionals: if the pattern over there is like this, then it means that it may be a can of coke with an 80% likelihood. If instead, the pattern looks like that, then it may be a book with a 75% likelihood. If the [...]

Challenges for Artificial Cognitive Systems

// January 29th, 2012 // No Comments » // Artificial Intelligence, Research

Along the last weekend (from 20 to 22 February of 2012), an extra workshop organized by the euCognition research network was held at Oxford: the second edition of Challenges for Artificial Cognitive Systems. I was interested to attend this workshop in order to figure out answers to the following questions: is it necessary to include [...]

Invited speaker at Admiral’s Business Club

// January 20th, 2012 // No Comments » // Talks

I will deliver a speech next Thursday the 26th of January 2012 entitled “The future of humanoid robots”. The speech is entitled within the networking event of the Admiral’s Business Club of Barcelona, and I will act as the invited speaker of the event. Everyone can attend the event. Further details here.

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