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Dialogue Games as Scaffolding for Building Open-ended Embodied AI for the Real World

Bayes Centre (Bayes Theorem (G.03)) 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh

Paper Summary Video Presentation Notes Presenter Welcome to the reading group presentation! Human-Robot Interaction focuses on developing robots capable of collaboratively solving tasks with humans in robust and safe ways. This aims to foster more intuitive and effective collaborations, enhancing the potential for robots to meet complex human needs and adapt to real-world environments. Future […]

Explicit Inductive Biases for Efficient Modelling and Representation Learning | Reading Group

Informatics Forum (G.03) 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh

Paper Summary Video Presentation Notes Presenter Welcome to the reading group presentation! Inductive biases are assumptions about the world that are encoded into models to help learn and generalise better. For computational modelling of perception (vision, language, etc.) inductive biases usually come from human perception and cognition-intending to drive human-like learning and learning from (relatively) […]

Effective design of graphics in (robotics) research | Reading Group

Informatics Forum (G.03) 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh

Paper Summary Video Presentation Notes Presenter Welcome to the reading group presentation! In this tutorial, Matias will present a methodology to tackle a painful though necessary part of writing papers: making figures. He will present a workflow of five steps, which streamlines this process and reduce the decisions we need to make when facing this […]