Find below EMERGE’s news articles, press releases, digests of scientific publications, as well as other outreach materials.
Publication: A Provably Stable Iterative Learning Controller for Continuum Soft Robots
21 August 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and collaborators propose a purely feedforward iterative learning control algorithm that refines the torque action by leveraging both the knowledge of the model and data obtained from past experiences.
Publication: Prescribing Cartesian Stiffness of Soft Robots by Co-Optimization of Shape and Segment-Level Stiffness
09 August 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and collaborators propose a strategy to prescribe variations of the physical stiffness and the robot's posture so to implement a desired Cartesian stiffness and location of the contact point.
Publication: Intelligence brings responsibility - Even smart AI assistants are held responsible
27 July 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich examined whether purely instrumental AI systems stay clear of responsibility.
Publication: Building Trustworthiness by Minimizing the Sim-to-Real Gap in Fault Detection for Robot Swarms
11 July 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol implement metric extraction in a real-world environment and evaluate whether the extracted metrics can overcome the “sim-to-real gap” - in other words how well it transfers from simulation to a real-world setting.
Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence
10 July 2023
EMERGE partners from UNIPI are organizing the 4th Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI.it 2023) during the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023), to be held in Rome, Italy, on November 6th - 9th, 2023.
EMERGE consortium launches first project video
20 June 2023
How do robots in a collective know what the group as a whole is doing? When intelligence is distributed across many parts, it can be tricky for the bigger picture to emerge. Yet answering these questions is key to making collective systems that are easy to design, monitor and control.
Publication: Randomly Coupled Oscillators for Time Series Processing
19 June 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa and Delft University of Technology investigate a physically-inspired recurrent neural network derived from a continuous-time ODE modelling a network of coupled oscillators.
Publication: The Ethics of Terminology: Can We Use Human Terms to Describe AI?
08 June 2023
In her article published in the journal Topoi, EMERGE partner Ophelia Deroy, from Ludwig Maximilian University (DE), critically evaluates various reasons for using these terms, including ontological, legal, communicative, and psychological arguments.
Publication: Interacting with agents without a mind: the case for artificial agents
07 June 2023
In this review, EMERGE partners from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich explore whether and when people consider — perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate — AI as non-human or human agent, utilising the socio-cognitive and interactive repertoire reserved for humans.
