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[CFP] [meetings] **Extended Deadline** AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium on “Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development” (UR-RAD)
by Ross Mead 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Dear colleagues, We have extended the deadline for submissions for the 2023 AAAI Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development <https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-ur-rad-symposium/home>(UR-RAD). The new deadline for submissions is August 14, 2023. The symposium will take place on October 25-27, 2023, in Arlington, VA, USA. Although we hope to see you in-person, the symposium will be in a hybrid format. ============= Key Information ============= Behind any robot task or interaction is a formal representation that should (a) enable sufficient contextualization; (b) support any existing predefined, learned, and/or reusable skills onboard the robot; (c) be verifiable at design time and behave consistently at run-time; and (d) can be tested, executed, and modified for reuse on a variety of different robot morphologies. Representations have long played a pivotal role in robot application development. Examples include behavior trees, finite state machines, hierarchical task networks, and many, many others. The problem is that there is a lack of consistency and uniformity in how these representations are selected and used by robotics researchers. The goals of the symposium will therefore be to (a) categorize current representational trends for robot application development, (b) discuss best practices for future adoption of languages, formal representations, development frameworks, etc. that integrate advances from the wider AI community, and (c) identify opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry. - Symposium Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-ur-rad-symposium/home <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-ur-rad-sympo…> - AAAI Fall Symposium Series Website: https://aaai.org/conference/fall-symposia/aaai-2023-fall-symposium-series/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aaai.org/conference/fall-symposia/aaai-…> ========================= Submission Topics of Interest ========================= We invite submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics: - Existing representations for robot applications - Proposals for standardizing representations for robotics - Robot end-user development - Robot programming paradigms - Robot programming interfaces - Robot control interfaces and runtime environments - Standardized application development for different robot morphologies - Application development frameworks for robotics (e.g., ROS) - Formal methods in robotics - Representations, frameworks, and models for robot learning - Robot architectures and models of reasoning - AI planning for robotics - Open-source initiatives in robotics - Interfaces for human-robot interaction ============= Important Dates ============= - Submissions: August 14, 2023 **EXTENDED** - Acceptance: September 1st, 2023 - Camera-Ready: October 9th, 2023 ==================== Submission Information ==================== The submission link can be found on the symposium website. The submission format can be any of the following: - Regular Research Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing robotics work related to any of the themes above. - Artifact Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing artifacts (e.g., software tools or libraries) related to any of the themes above. - Position Papers: (2-4 pages, AAAI double-column format), directly discussing themes outlined above. If you intend to submit a paper, please email us at urrad.symposium(a)gmail.com. Use the subject line, “[UR-RAD] Intent to Submit”, and include the following in the body of the message: (1) a tentative title, (2) a tentative author list, and (3) tentative keywords. This step is optional, but will aid in our planning for reviewers. Note that at least one author from each paper will be expected to review 2-3 UR-RAD papers themselves. =================== Organizing Committee =================== - David Porfirio (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Ross Mead (Semio) - Laura M. Hiatt (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Mark Roberts (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Amin Atrash (Amazon Lab 126) - Nick DePalma (Independent Researcher) - Ruchen Wen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) - Laura Stegner (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Please send any questions about the workshop to urrad.symposium(a)gmail.com. -- Ross Mead, PhD Founder and CEO ross(a)semio.ai +1 (618) 696-2600 <https://semio.ai>

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RoboCup Brazil Open 2023
by patricia.vergara＠robocup.org.br 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

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[CFP] [AI-HRI 2023] 2023 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI)
by Hernandez Garcia, Daniel 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

The tenth annual AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) will take place on October 25-27, 2023, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA, USA. We are planning a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person. Paper submissions will be due on August 6, 2023 (anywhere on Earth) and can be made through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fss230. For more information and updates, please see below or visit the symposium website at https://ai-hri.github.io/<https://ai-hri.github.io/>. Overview Since 2014, the Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) Symposium has been a successful venue for discussion and collaboration on the topic of AI applied to HRI. In celebration of the tenth anniversary this year, we are reflecting on the achievements of the community as we transition to a new venue and spiritual successor, Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI). We invite all contributions related to any topic on the intersection of AI and HRI, and we welcome new researchers who wish to take part in this thriving and growing community. With the success of past symposia, AI-HRI explores diverse challenges that impact a variety of communities and problems spanning academia, industry, and government. It has pioneered the discussions in recent trends and interests, and this year's AI-HRI Fall Symposium will continue to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the globe. In doing so, we hope to accelerate research in the field, support technology transition and user adoption, and determine future directions for our group and our research. Topics - Future of AI-HRI and TAHRI via “Blue Sky” ideas - Emergent abilities of LLMs in AI for HRI - Ethics, fairness, trust, and explainability in AI for HRI - Architectures, software tools, and systems supporting autonomous HRI - Interactive task learning, dialog systems, and natural language - Field deployments, studies, experimental, and empirical HRI - Safety and ergonomics in HRI - Robot planning, abstraction, and decision-making - AI for social robots - Safety and human comfort in HRI - Software tools for autonomous HRI - AI for social robots - Physical HRI - Knowledge representation and reasoning to support HRI - AI for HRI in teams and groups - Replication studies and reproducibility in AI for HRI - Test methods and metrics for AI-HRI - ...and many other topics relevant to the application of Artificial Intelligence to Human-Robot Interaction! Format This year's symposium will focus on the accomplishments in the field of AI-HRI as well as look to its future challenges, ranging from research directions to establishing an ongoing collaborative community. We will invite symposium participants to present their own work as it contributes to understanding what matters towards these goals, though all research on AI-HRI will be considered. We will continue to include AI-HRI’s signature community-building efforts into the schedule, including paper presentations, poster sessions, and breakout group discussions. These are ideal within the symposium community, which is small enough that we can all learn each other's names and faces, but large enough to draw an audience of people who have a real impact in our field. These discussions give perfect opportunities for new researchers in the field to meet senior members in a more informal setting and become more involved in future interactions and collaborations within the community. This year, we have the opportunity to gather in person. However, for inclusiveness, we are planning in advance to implement a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person. The diversity chair will lead the efforts for creating an inclusive community and will work with AAAI to manage the logistics for hybrid participation. Submissions All submissions should be 2-4 pages (not including references), introducing work that will receive feedback to prepare a follow-up submission to TAHRI. Tracks for submissions include: - *Research papers* highlighting state-of-the-art or ongoing HRI-oriented AI research, HRI research focusing on the Future of AI-HRI, the use of autonomous AI systems, an overview of an AI-HRI research topic, an outline of new or controversial views on AI-HRI research, or the implementation of AI systems in commercial HRI products. - *Tool papers* describing novel software, hardware, or datasets of interest to the AI-HRI community. - *Demo papers* introducing some portion of a tool, short, or full paper-level deliverable in the form of a public-facing experience. - *Blue Sky papers* fostering a forward-thinking discussion on the future at the intersection of AI and HRI. All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in their choice of the proceedings through ArXiv or AAAI’s symposium proceedings. Authors will be notified as to whether they have been assigned a "full-length" or "lightning" presentation slot. Please see the AAAI Author Kit (https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit23.zip) for paper templates to ensure that your submission has the proper formatting. Contributions may be submitted through EasyChair now: <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fss22> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fss230 . For any extenuating circumstances that may result in a delayed submission, please contact us at ai4hri(a)gmail.com. Important Dates - Submission: August 6, 2023 (anywhere on earth) - Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2023 - Registration deadline: September 29, 2023 - Symposium: October 25-27, 2023 Diversity & Inclusion at AI-HRI AI-HRI is committed to growing the diversity of our community and is actively pursuing ways to make our community more inclusive. Our efforts include diversifying the participation among our program committee, invited speakers, paper authors, and symposium attendees. If you are having difficulties, please contact us at ai4hri(a)gmail.com . Organizing Committee - Richard G. Freedman (SIFT, USA) - Ross Mead (Semio, USA) - Muneeb I. Ahmad (Swansea University, UK) - Zhao Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA) - Justin W. Hart (University of Texas at Austin, USA) - ‪Daniel Hernández García (Heriot-Watt University, UK) - Ifrah Idrees (Brown University, USA) - Emmanuel Senft (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) - Jason R. Wilson (Franklin & Marshall College, USA) ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. With campuses and students across the entire globe we span the world, delivering innovation and educational excellence in business, engineering, design and the physical, social and life sciences. This email is generated from the Heriot-Watt University Group, which includes: 1. Heriot-Watt University, a Scottish charity registered under number SC000278 2. 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Group photo
by Okada Hiroyuki 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Hi, Did you all get home safely? please find photos of all the @Home league that I made here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nJrGeZNbzD4cWWCZ9 Group photo https://photos.app.goo.gl/uTdrxupwQo169Pqj9 May be used freely. Best!, Hiroyuki

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[CFP] [meetings] AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium on “Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development” (UR-RAD)
by Ross Mead 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

Dear colleagues, We are inviting submissions and participation in the 2023 AAAI Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-ur-rad-sympo…> (UR-RAD). The symposium will take place on October 25-27, 2023, in Arlington, VA, USA. ============= Key Information ============= Behind any robot task or interaction is a formal representation that should (a) enable sufficient contextualization; (b) support any existing predefined, learned, and/or reusable skills onboard the robot; (c) be verifiable at design time and behave consistently at run-time; and (d) can be tested, executed, and modified for reuse on a variety of different robot morphologies. Representations have long played a pivotal role in robot application development. Examples include behavior trees, finite state machines, hierarchical task networks, and many, many others. The problem is that there is a lack of consistency and uniformity in how these representations are selected and used by robotics researchers. The goals of the symposium will therefore be to (a) categorize current representational trends for robot application development, (b) discuss best practices for future adoption of languages, formal representations, development frameworks, etc. that integrate advances from the wider AI community, and (c) identify opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry. - Symposium Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-ur-rad-symposium/home <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-ur-rad-sympo…> - AAAI Fall Symposium Series Website: https://aaai.org/conference/fall-symposia/aaai-2023-fall-symposium-series/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aaai.org/conference/fall-symposia/aaai-…> ========================= Submission Topics of Interest ========================= We invite submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics: - Existing representations for robot applications - Proposals for standardizing representations for robotics - Robot end-user development - Robot programming paradigms - Robot programming interfaces - Robot control interfaces and runtime environments - Standardized application development for different robot morphologies - Application development frameworks for robotics (e.g., ROS) - Formal methods in robotics - Representations, frameworks, and models for robot learning - AI planning for robotics - Open-source initiatives in robotics - Interfaces for human-robot interaction ==================== Submission Information ==================== - Submissions: August 4th, 2023 - Acceptance: September 15th, 2023 - Camera Ready: October 9th, 2023 The submission link can be found on the symposium website. The submission format can be any of the following: - Regular Research Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing robotics work related to any of the themes above. - Artifact Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing artifacts (e.g., software tools or libraries) related to any of the themes above. - Position Papers: (2-4 pages, AAAI double-column format), directly discussing themes outlined above. =================== Organizing Committee =================== - David Porfirio (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Ross Mead (Semio) - Laura M. Hiatt (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Mark Roberts (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Amin Atrash (Amazon Lab 126) - Nick DePalma (Independent Researcher) - Ruchen Wen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) - Laura Stegner (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Please send any questions about the workshop to urrad.symposium(a)gmail.com -- Ross Mead, PhD Founder and CEO ross(a)semio.ai +1 (618) 696-2600 <https://semio.ai>

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Fwd: [rc-home-tc] [RoboCup Committee] Newsletter #3: Welcoming Booklet
by Mauricio Matamoros 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Dear RoboCuper, We're only a few days away from the start of the competitions, in order to welcome you , we'd like to share with you this welcome booklet containing all the important information for this edition. Please find enclosed the Welcome booklet. This booklet contains information about on-site registration, the site map, the program, and much more. Best regards, The organizing committee

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Fwd: [rc-home-tc] [RoboCup Committee] Form of consent
by Mauricio Matamoros 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Dear RoboCuper, We're delighted to welcome you in a few days to the 2023 edition of the RoboCup . The next few days will mark the start of competitions that we hope will suit you. However, before you can access the competitions, we *need* you to *read* and *sign* the *consent form attached to this mail*. This form is *to be handed in at the reception desk of the exhibition center* as soon as you arrive. We wish you a good day and a safe journey to Bordeaux, For *underage people*, we draw your attention to the fact that your *legal guardians must sign it *. Newsletter number 3 will be send shortly and will take the form of a welcome kit containing all the information you need to prepare for your arrival. Best regards, The 2023 Organizing Committee

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Fwd: [rc-home-tc] [RoboCup Committee] Urgent information: RoboCup 2023
by Mauricio Matamoros 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Dear RoboCuper, We know that some of you are worried about the situation in France. We are in close connection with authorities, and we are monitoring the events in realtime. The competition will take place in compliance with safety standards and at the moment the schedule is maintained. We will keep you informed of the developments at least on a daily basis by email and via the discord platform. • Discord | #⌠🗣⌡random | RoboCup 2023 <https://discord.com/channels/1088577847326675054/1088577847918075978> Best regards, The 2023 organizing committee

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