Our RoboCupSoccer SPL, and RoboCup@Home DSPL teams will be leaving for the 2017 competition shortly, to be held in Nagoya Japan.

RoboCupSoccer SPL Team 2017

RoboCup@Home DSPL Team 2017

Our HSR (on loan from Toyota) has arrived!

We are pleased to have qualified for RoboCup@Home 2017, in the Domestic Standard Platform League (DSPL)!

The team will be travelling to Nagoya, Japan, and the competition runs from July 25th – July 30th.

Our Taste of Research students finished their 3 month scholarship this week. This year we had two students. Their projects were:

• Skeleton Tracking on the Baxter Robot
• Constructing a Mobile Domestic Robot

We’ve put together some videos summarising their work.

The Taste of Research program is a 3 month scholarship for undergraduate students in Engineering. Students undertake a research project in an existing team and discover what conducting research is like. The program runs over the summer break. For more information, and to apply in future programs, visit the Taste of Research page.

Back in December last year, Michael Thielscher gave a keynote presentation titled “Knowledge Representation for General Problem-Solving Robots” at the 10th Multi-Disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.

For more details, including slides see: https://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai16/speakers

This research has been supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) under the Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP 150103035).

Michael Thielscher at MIWAI’16

Some photo highlights of our researchers two recently held conferences:

• 2016 Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, from December 5-8.
• 2016 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA’16), held is Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, from December 5-7.

Maurice Pagnucco is presenting a Keynote at the 2016 Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, entitled The rise of cognitive robots.

We are also presenting the following papers:

• D. Rajaratnam, B. Hengst, M. Pagnucco, C. Sammut and M. Thielscher, Composability in Cognitive Hierarchies. Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 42-55, Hobart, Australia, 2016.

We are presenting the following papers at the 2016 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA’16):

• H. Wicaksono and C. Sammut, Relational Tool Use Learning by a Robot in a Real and Simulated World, Proceedings of the 2016 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2016.

We’ve just launched a new Youtube Channel UNSW AI & Robotics Research that will feature video content of our research.