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GSO-2022 in Auckland, NZ (December, 12-13)
by Mikhail Prokopenko 12 Jun '22

12 Jun '22

Dear All, The 10th International Conference on Guided Self-Organization will take place during *12-13 December 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand*: http://www.guided-self.org/gso-2022.html (extended abstracts are due on 30 June 2022). The GSO-2022 conference will bring together invited experts and researchers in artificial life, self-organizing systems, and complex adaptive systems, with particular emphasis on emergent behaviour. Topics of interest that may be relevant to RoboCuppers include: swarm intelligence, cooperative and modular robotics, distributed AI, unconventional computation, complex networks, etc. If interested in participating, please send an extended abstract (two pages, pdf) by *June 30th, 2022*, by email to: mikhail dot prokopenko at sydney dot edu dot au (with subject line: GSO-2022 submission). The notifications are expected by July 31st, 2022. Authors of accepted submissions will present the content at the conference. A special journal issue will follow, in Entropy journal, a free media partner of GSO-2022. Best regards, Mikhail (on behalf of OC and PC: http://www.guided-self.org/gso-2022.html ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mikhail Prokopenko | Professor | PhD, MA, MSc | FRSN Research Leader, Modelling and Simulation Research Group | Faculty of Engineering Director, Centre for Complex Systems, CCS | Faculty of Science Theme Co-Leader (Pathogen Emergence & Spread) | Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 549, School of Computer Science J12 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 7569 | M +61 414 897 703 E mikhail.prokopenko(a)sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au

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[meeting] Call for Participation - Conference "De la marionnette au robot"
by Salvatore Anzalone 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, dear friends, We are pleased to announce the conference: *De la marionnette au robot : manipulation, animation et expression des corps artificiels * The event will be held in Paris at the MSH Paris Nord on Saturday the 25th of June, 2022. The robot never ceases to populate fictional writings, essays, films and series; in the theater, its presence has a long history, linked to the exploration of otherness. The robot on stage seems to arouse a "disturbing uncanniness" linked to the cohabitation, as for the puppet and the mask, of animate and inanimate, of rigidity and illusion of life. Unlike these theatrical objects par excellence, the behavior of the robot and its autonomy determine a radical, external otherness, which raises the question of the overcoming of the human. This conference aims to question the techniques and modalities of animation and expression of artificial bodies, from puppet devices to robots, fostering discussions on points of convergence, divergence and overcomings, by bringing together engineers, artists and researchers in performing arts. The conference will also host the performance of the *Equipe RoboAct II *composed by artists and students of Paris 8 University, trying to synthesize their works on robotics, theatre and puppetry held in the last six months as part of the project *Scène et Robotique.* *The event will be held mainly in French. * If you are able to come to Paris, do not hesitate to join us! Feel free to register for the event through the following link: https://forms.gle/LmWtUv4nTJUcsE7r5 *Registrations of the event will be shared through the project's YouTube Channel* *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuPsG4gvkvtheIzH25mQjQ <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuPsG4gvkvtheIzH25mQjQ>* For more information, please, find here the full program of the day: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3znm7inh93zxtmn/Programme%20-%202022-06-25.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/s/7dm2lfpyww8srj3/Programme%20scene%20et%20robotiqu… And please, spread the information to all those who might be interested. Best regards, Salvatore Anzalone with Erica Magris and Giulia Filacanapa

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Fwd: [JOBS] 1 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Robotics and AI: Social perception in unstructured environments
by Dimitri Ognibene 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

[JOBS] 1 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Robotics and AI: Social perception in unstructured environments ######### Apologies for cross posting ######### Dear colleagues, University Milano-Bicocca is offering 1 doctoral scholarship as part of the “ph.D. program of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (DRIM)”. Main Theme: Social perception in unstructured environments Funder: National Robotics Doctoral Consortium Working place: Milan-Bicocca, University Deadline: 29th of June 2022 More info: https://drim.i-rim.it/en/ https://drim.i-rim.it/en/admission/ https://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/jobs Template for the motivation letter: https://drim.i-rim.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Template-Motivation-Projec… Contact: dimitri.ognibene(a)unimib.it Description of the candidate: We are looking for the perfect PhD candidate to find out how to enable robots to interact with humans in the wild considering the perceptual and computational limits they have. The candidate will have the chance to explore practical machine learning and more formal methods to develop the AI controller of social robots. There will also be the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration to look at how humans and other organisms solve similar problems. It will be crucial to be passionate about ideas and challenges (and maths and programming). Requirements: Applicants are expected to have good programming skills and be interested in further improving them. Knowledge of statistics, control systems theory, artificial intelligence, computer vision, as well as machine learning methodologies, and libraries would be an important plus. Similarly, the ability to understand and design psychological tasks as well as use statistical methods to evaluate experimental results and human-robot interaction effectiveness would be valuable. Experience with real-time 3d engines and/or VR platforms, such as Unity3D, Unreal and similar, or with robotic platforms will also be considered positively. Description of the field: In the last 10 years, with the advent of modern deep learning methodologies, substantial performance improvement has been observed in perception for robots and other artificial systems. However, interactions with unstructured environments pose high challenges due to the variety of conditions and crucial sensory limits, such as occlusions and limited FOV. This position will focus on the study and development of systems that can perceive others’ states in unstructured environments and predict their actions, intentions, and beliefs. A possible line of research would focus on adaptive and social active perception mechanisms that enable to dynamically deal with sensory limits and have received limited attention but play a crucial role in human perception (Ognibene & Demiris, 2013, Lee, Ognibene et al. 2015). It has been recently shown that such mechanisms may substantially improve learning performance other than execution efficiency and even enable online adaptation to new environments [Ognibene & Baldassarre, 2015], however, these properties have not been fully scaled to social conditions yet. Moreover, active perception also plays a crucial role also when interacting with other agents who add relevant scene dynamics and may occlude important information. At the same time agents may have their own sensory limits and active perception strategies that must be scrupulously parsed to support effective social interaction [Ognibene, Mirante, et al, 2019], e.g. false beliefs and theory of mind [Bianco & Ognibene 2020]. Most importantly, social interaction increases the demand for integration of information about task and context, i.e. simultaneous perception of the states of other agents, their effectors, and other scene elements which can be strongly affected by the limited field of view and challenging for active perception due to the necessity to focus on the right element at the right time [Ognibene, Chinellato, et al 2013] and adapt to different types of interaction. The work may not only focus on advancing technical performance but on understanding and modelling how humans perform and adapt social perception or on how to design active social perception to improve the perceived quality of human-robot interactions. References: - Bianco, F., & Ognibene, D. (2020, March). From psychological intention recognition theories to adaptive theory of mind for robots: Computational models. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 136-138). - Ognibene, D., Mirante, L., & Marchegiani, L. (2019, November). Proactive intention recognition for joint human-robot search and rescue missions through Monte-Carlo planning in POMDP environments. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 332-343). Springer, Cham. - Lee, K., Ognibene, D., Chang, H. J., Kim, T. K., & Demiris, Y. (2015). Stare: Spatio-temporal attention relocation for multiple structured activities detection. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 24(12), 5916-5927. - Ognibene, D., Chinellato, E., Sarabia, M., & Demiris, Y. (2013). Contextual action recognition and target localization with an active allocation of attention on a humanoid robot. Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 8(3), 035002. - Ognibene, D., & Demiris, Y. (2013). Towards active event perception. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013). -- Dimitri Ognibene, PhD Associate Professor at Università Milano-Bicocca Honorary Lecturer of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex http://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/ *Skype:* dimitri.ognibene -- Dimitri Ognibene, PhD Associate Professor at Università Milano-Bicocca Honorary Lecturer of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex http://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/ *Skype:* dimitri.ognibene

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[jobs] Tenured Professor of Computer Science / Autonomous Systems at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
by Alex Mitrevski 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Dear roboticists, The Department of Computer Science at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, University of Applied Sciences (Sankt Augustin Campus), together with the Bonn-Aachen International Centre for Information Technology (b-it), has an opening for a *permanent professorship (W2) for Computer Science, with specialisation in Autonomous Systems*. *The **application deadline is July 5th, 2022*; the position itself is available from Mar. 1st, 2023. We expect applicants for the position to meet the following requirements: * the employment requirements of §36 HG NRW, in particular three years of professional experience outside of higher education institutions, * very good knowledge of English, as well as the ability and willingness to teach in English, * pedagogical and didactic skills in teaching complex learning content, * willingness to participate in activities within the university, as well as national and international committees, * experience in the acquisition, establishment and implementation of internal and externally funded research and development projects, * active participation in the further development and expansion of our Autonomous Systems master's program. In addition, the following criteria would be desirable: * teaching experience at universities or comparable institutions, * willingness to also teach undergraduate courses that correspond to the topics of the call for applications, * willingness for interdisciplinary cooperation with other institutions within and outside the university, * evidence of international collaborations and networking with the professional community, * willingness to conduct courses and examinations in German. More detailed information about the position can be found at https://stellen.h-brs.de/jobposting/27baf466423c9b9ede4285f948072a29d1f6ab0… We would like to see more female scientists at our university and are therefore particularly pleased to receive applications from women. We also welcome applicants with children; H-BRS is a certified family-friendly university - and proud of it. People with severe disabilities are part of our university; we give them preference in the application process if their qualifications are equal. The position is suitable for part-time work. For information about the professorship to be filled, please contact the head of the appointment committee, Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender (nico.hochgeschwender(a)h-brs.de). In addition, the Equal Opportunity Officer of H-BRS, Dr. Barbara Hillen, is also happy to assist you (www.h-brs.de/de/gi/barbara-hillen <https://www.h-brs.de/de/gi/barbara-hillen>). Regards, Nico Hochgeschwender * We apologise for cross-posting* **************************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender Professor of Autonomous Systems B-IT Bonn-Aachen International Center of Information Technology Fon: +49-2241-865-9634 Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University oAS Fax: +49-2241-865-8293 Computer Science Department Net: nico.hochgeschwender(a)h-brs.de Grantham-Allee 20 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Web: http://www.h-brs.de/de/inf/nico-hochgeschwender Twitter: @nico_roboticist **************************************************************************************** International Master Program on Autonomous Systems https://www.h-brs.de/en/inf/autonomous-systems-msc ****************************************************************************************

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(SCRITA Workshop @ RO-MAN 2022) Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction - SCRITA Workshop
by Alessandra Rossi 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, This is a gentle reminder that the paper submission for the fifth edition of SCRITA Workshop <scrita.herts.ac.uk> at IEEE RO-MAN 2022 are open! This workshop will be a full day event on 29 August 2022, in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2022 <http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/> conference, held in sunny and beautiful Naples, Italy. The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user recommendation. We will foster the exchange of insights on past and ongoing research, and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions of research with brilliant invited speakers and a panel of experts in the field. Please find attached below the call for papers. For any questions and information, do not hesitate to contact us (emails below). Kind regards, Alessandra -- Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy ================================================================ *** WorkhopTrust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction *** 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) August 29th - September 2nd, 2022 Naples, Italy http://ro-man2022.org <http://ro-man2022.org/> *Important Dates* *Submission deadline*: 15 July 2022 *Acceptance*: 31 July 2022 People's ability of accepting and trusting robots is fundamental for a fruitful and successful coexistence between humans and people. While advanced progresses are reached in studying and evaluating the factors affecting acceptance and trust of people in robots in controlled or short-term (repeated interactions) setting, developing service and personal robots, that are accepted and trusted by people where the supervision of operators is not possible, still presents an open challenge for scientists in robotics, AI and HRI fields. In such unstructured static and dynamic human-centred environments scenarios, robots should be able to learn and adapt their behaviours to the situational context, but also to people’s prior experiences and learned associations, their expectations, and their and the robot’s ability to predict and understand each other's behaviours. This workshop focuses on addressing the challenges and development of the dynamics between people and robots in order to foster short interactions and long-lasting relationships in different fields, from educational, service, collaborative, companion, care-home and medical robotics. Although the previous editions valued the participation of leading researchers in the field and several exceptional invited speakers who tackled down some fundamental points in this research domains, we wish to continue to further explore the role of trust in robotics to present groundbreaking research to effectively design and develop socially acceptable and trustable robots to be deployed "in the wild". Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Impact of Social Cues on Trust in HRI * Measuring Trust in HRI * Trust Violation and Recovery Mechanism in HRI * Effects of Humans’ Acceptance on Trust of Robots * Humans Sense of Control and Trust in Robots * Trust and Assistive Robotics * Overtrust in Robots * Antecedent of Trust and Robot Trust * Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots * Enhancing Trust in a Robot Companion * Privacy Implications on Trust in HRI * Mental Models and Trust in HRI * Trust and Safety in HRI * Ethics Implications on Trust in HRI * Trustworthy AI * XAI in HRI * Legal Frameworks for Trustworthy Robotics Templates and Submission Procedure We encourage participants to submit two-page abstracts or full papers (up to 6 pages) on original and unpublished research. We will also welcome submissions of two-page position papers on topics covering the scope of the workshop. All accepted papers will have an oral presentations. We further welcome authors of the accepted papers to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. Video demonstrations should be accompanied by an up to 2 pages abstract describing the work and achievements. Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>. PDF submission will be possible via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scrita2022>. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other's identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript. Authors who want to include a video in their submission can indicate their plans via EasyChair and will be sent a link to a confidentially upload the video file. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers needs to register for the workshop. Invited Speakers The following keynote speakers have already agreed to participate in this workshop: * Alan Wagner, Penn State University, USA * Moojan Ghafurian, University of Waterloo, Canada * Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University, Japan Panel Session The following experts have already agreed to participate in this workshop: * Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK * Kerstin Sophie Haring, University of Denver, USA

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Research Showcases
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

* Call for Research Showcases* The 25th RoboCup International Symposium https://2022.robocup.org/ Submission of abstracts: 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. This year, we are inviting the submission of poster proposals to facilitate scientific discussions about ongoing projects and late-breaking results during the RoboCup 2022 Symposium. This call is specifically for poster presentations to showcase teams’ ongoing work and/or the latest results relevant to the RoboCup community. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to promote exciting conversations during the coffee break over posters, discussing scientific results, finding other research groups with similar interests, and strengthening connections between different teams as well as RoboCup leagues. Any team, research group, or individual is welcome to propose a poster presentation with the content relevant to the RoboCup community. To ensure this and to group posters into the poster sessions, we ask everyone interested in such poster presentations to submit a proposal with the title and short abstract of max 250 words by June 20th (using the Research Showcase Track). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of poster abstracts (Research Showcase Track): 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 Upload of poster pdfs for website (optionally): 8 July RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Abstracts will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium. Poster abstracts will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be 250 words in plain text and must be submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022# POSTER FORMAT ============== Posters presented at the Symposium should be in A0 portrait format. Presenters will receive a poster board as well as material for attaching the posters from the organizers. Please note that the Symposium Co-Chairs will not be able to assist with printing posters in Bangkok, so please bring your printed poster with you to the Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org

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Launch Into Robotics With CMU
by RISS Info 26 May '22

26 May '22

RoboLaunch Talks | Workshops | Competitions We are writing to you because of this organization's goal of connecting students to robotics. Carnegie Mellons' RoboLaunch is a new initiative that offers a series of talks and conversations from diverse pioneers through which participants can explore robotics and how research/education can be fun! The initiative introduces participants to broad topics in robotics through talks, interactive workshops, and culminates in a competition in the fall where participants show what they have learned. Attached below is a flyer with information on how prospective students can sign up for RoboLaunch. To help connect students with this fantastic opportunity, we hoped you would share the attached flier with your members. Interested in RoboLaunch? Register below to take part in the events and receive updates & reminders. Learn more about RoboLaunch here: https://riss.ri.cmu.edu/robolaunch/<https://riss.ri.cmu.edu/robolaunch/> We would love to hear more from you, so if you have any questions, contact riss-info(a)andrew.cmu.edu. Flier: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MxFDIVUTMOLH3sQ6SmPYBejrJAtlrnOk/view?usp=…

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[HRI][meetings][CFP] Call for Contributions - GenR 2022 Workshop @RO-MAN 2022 - Gendering Robots: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics
by Giulia Perugia 24 May '22

24 May '22

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for any cross-posting. We are glad to invite contributions for the 2nd Edition of the GenR Workshop (*GenR 2022*) *Gendering Robots: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics* which will be held as part of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) on August 29th, 2022 in hybrid form. This year we do not invite full papers but contributions in many different formats - e.g., text, videos, pictorials, images (deadline: June 24th). We would like potential contributors to describe their out of the box ideas, visions, and reflections on the topic of the workshop in the format they prefer. Below, you can find our call for contributions, as well as the link to our website and the submission form. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions and to circulate the call within your network. Kindest regards, Giulia Perugia \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ [CFP] Call for Contributions - GenR 2022 Workshop @RO-MAN 2022 - Gendering Robots: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics [ website <https://sites.google.com/view/ro-man-genr-workshop/home>] This year’s GenR workshop aims to provide a space for collaborative discussion, critical reflection, and creativity to find opportunities to break with normative research practices in robotics methodology and robot design from an intersectional perspective. Our spotlight theme for this year’s workshop is Intersectional Feminism. Kimberle Crenshaw first introduced intersectionality as a term to describe the discriminatory effects of race and gender, which cannot be understood in isolation as they amplify and resonate with each other. Crenshaw and other feminists have since developed intersectionality as a framework to understand the interaction of social markers such as gender, race, class, disability, and their effects on social phenomena. The HRI literature has extensively shown that social robots, especially humanoid ones, are exposed to the same social categorisation processes that affect humans. The integration of social robots in the political dimensions and social categories of society demands a deeper engagement with their potential dangers and opportunities. Instead of a regular call for papers, the GenR 2022 workshop team invites contributions describing ambitious, out of the box ideas to break with normative practices in Social Robotics and HRI, as well as creative visions for the future of social robotics and critical reflections about its present from an intersectional lens. We invite you to submit EITHER a one-page written submission describing an idea, reflection, or vision (no template or pre-defined format), OR a media (i.e., short 5-min videos, pictorial, drawing, sketch, design) depicting an idea, reflection, or vision in a more artistic way. We do not set any limit to creativity, but rather invite you to experiment! Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Gendering practices in social robotics - Intersectional feminist robotics - Robot’s gender design - Norm-critical design - Queer design in HRI - Sex Robots - Ethics of gendered robots - Societal implications and applications of gendered robots - Performative arts encompassing a reflection on gender in robotics - LGBTQIA+ perspectives on robot gender - Marginalised perspectives on gender in HRI - Queering Robots - Queer identities in HRI - Black in Robotics - Race in Robotics - Disability in Robotics - Research methods to foster gender diversity in HRI studies - Critical design of gendered robots Important dates - June 24th - submission deadline - August 5th - notification of selection - August 29th - workshop day (morning CEST) Written and media contributions can be submitted at the following link <https://htionline.tue.nl/limesurvey2/index.php/999913?lang=en> Submissions will be checked for alignment to the workshop’s themes and goals. In case we receive more submissions than we can showcase, we will perform a light review of the contributions. The selected contributors will be invited to participate in round table sessions or spotlight presentations on the day of the workshop. Organisers Dr. Giulia Perugia, Eindhoven University of Technology, g.perugia(a)tue.nl Dr. Katie Winkle, Uppsala University, katie.winkle(a)it.uu.se Dominika Lisy, Linköping University, dominika.lisy(a)liu.se Dr. Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Potsdam University, paetzel-pruesmann(a)uni-potsdam.de

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CMU Postdoc Position(s) in ML & HRI
by Michael Lewis 24 May '22

24 May '22

Postdoctoral Fellow Position at Carnegie Mellon University Deep Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Human Robot Teaming Systems OPEN POSITION: A postdoctoral fellow position at Robotics Institute, CMU SUPERVISOR: Prof. Katia Sycara (katia(a)cs.cmu.edu) The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Website: http://ri.cmu.edu/ri-faculty/katia-sycara LOCATION: The Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA DESCRIPTION: The successful candidate will work on Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms for human agent teams, with agents interacting autonomously or with humans. Position open immediately in 2022. Start in early 2023 is negotiable. The expected duration of the position is one to three years with renewals upon review. In particular, the research will involve computational models for making inferences and predictions about the behaviors and activities of other agents and human-agent teams so as to (1) perform complementary beneficial actions, and (2) give advice to human and agent team mates to improve overall team performance. The research involves a rich variety of research issues, such as theory of mind models, explainable AI, concept learning and transfer learning. QUALIFICATIONS: - PhD in a field related to AI/ML in particular reinforcement learning in Robotics, CS or related discipline. - A strong theoretical background in Machine Learning - Programming skills including experiences using C++, Python, and/or MATLAB, Neural Network frameworks, eg pytorch - Ability to present work clearly both written and orally - Experiences with deep learning tools mandatory. APPLICATION DETAILS: Applicants should provide the following material via email to Prof. Katia Sycara (katia(a)cs.cmu.edu). Please use the subject line: “Postdoc application”. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. - A curriculum vitae - A statement of research expertise and interests (up to 2 pages) - Up to 3 publications - Names and contact information of three references - Dates of availability - A personal website, if available, where further details can be found DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The postdoc will (a) carry out high quality research and publish the research results, (b) assist in research supervision and guidance of graduate and undergraduate students, (c) present research results to sponsors, (d) participate in research proposal preparation.

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Final Call for Participation: RoboCup@Home Education Workshop & Challenge 2022 (Online & On-site)
by Jeffrey Tan 23 May '22

23 May '22

Dear RoboCup Community, After two years of online events, finally we are organizing an on-site RoboCup@Home Education Challenge event at the RoboCup 2022 Bangkok in July 2022. The event will run in both online and on-site tracks, comprising a series of robot building short courses for beginners via online classroom with live streaming of remote participation online challenge, and on-site hands-on workshop with face-to-face participation on-site competition in Bangkok. We hope everyone around the world can join us together in RoboCup development and challenges regardless of travel restrictions. With that, we are proud to announce the RoboCup@Home Education Workshop & Challenge 2022! The event details are as follows in the Final Call for Participation announcement. == Final Call for Participation: RoboCup@Home Education Workshop & Challenge 2022 == [ Venue ] Online OR On-site (Thailand) [ Date ] RoboCup 2022 Bangkok July 11 ~ 17, 2022 [ Web ] https://www.robocupathomeedu.org/challenges/robocup-2022-bangkok << Supported by >> - RoboCup Federation - RoboCup 2022 LOC << Sponsors and Technical Partners >> - SoftBank Robotics - Jupiter Robot << Schedule and Rules >> - Technical Materials Submission: May 27, 2022 - RoboCup 2022 Bangkok: July 11 ~ 17, 2022 For the competition rules, please visit https://www.robocupathomeedu.org/rules << Categories >> Open Platform (OP) - Custom Build Robots Standard Platform (SP) - SoftBank Pepper Robot << How to Participate >> [√] Step 0 - Intend To Participate (Entry Application) [√] Step 1 - Kick-Off Webinar [√] Step 2 - Online Classroom Step 3 - Technical Review & Challenge Step 4 (Online) - Online Challenge (Finals) Step 4 (On-site) - On-site Workshop & Challenge For more details, please visit https://www.robocupathomeedu.org/challenges/robocup-2022-bangkok You can contact us via oc(a)robocupathomeedu.org Best regards, RoboCup@Home Education Workshop & Challenge 2022 Organizing Committee

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