Find below EMERGE’s news articles, press releases, digests of scientific publications, as well as other outreach materials.
Shared awareness could lead to greener, more ethical, and useful smart machines
31 July 2024
The EMERGE project proposes a collaborative shared awareness as a more reliable, energy-efficient, and ethically tractable framework for the coordination between artificial systems and humans than an artificial general intelligence. Read our Press Release!
Workshop on Structural Priors as Inductive Biases for Learning Robot Dynamics
03 June 2024
EMERGE partners from TUDelft are organising the “Workshop on Structural Priors as Inductive Biases for Learning Robot Dynamics” during the 20th RSS Conference, to be held in Delft, Netherlands, on July 15th, 2024.
6th International Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining
31 May 2024
EMERGE partners from UNIPI are organising the workshop during the next European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2024), to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 13th, 2024.
EMERGE partners get together in Paris
25 April 2024
The EMERGE consortium met on May 23rd and 24th in Paris, France, to discuss recent developments in each area and plans for the future of the project.
Deep Learning meets Neuromorphic Hardware
03 April 2024
EMERGE partners from UNIPI are organising the second edition of the workshop during the next ECML-PKDD, which will take place between September 9th and 13th, 2024 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Designing Aware and Trustworthy Robots
02 April 2024
Organised by EIC projects METATOOL and EMERGE, event explores awareness in robotic systems
27th International Conference on Discovery Science
14 February 2024
EMERGE partners from UNIPI are event to be held in Pisa, Italy, on October 14th - 16th, 2024.
EMERGE take part in the EIC Tech Demo Day
08 February 2024
Event was organised by the EIC Tech to Market (T2M) Venture Building Programme from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA).
Breaking Swarm Stereotypes Workshop
29 January 2024
The event will be held during the next IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), to be held from May 13th to 17th, 2024, in Yokohama, Japan.
Special session “Reservoir Computing: Progress in Methods, Applications, and Implementations”
16 January 2024
The event will take place during the next IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024), to be held between June 30th and July 5th, 2024, in Yokohama, Japan.
EMERGE coordinator interviewed by the italian website “AI news”
03 January 2024
Davide Bacciu talks about artificial intelligence, artificial awareness and the EMERGE project.
Publication: Neural Autoencoder-Based Structure-Preserving Model Order Reduction and Control Design for High-Dimensional Physical Systems
19 December 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and University of Pisa combine deep learning with structure-preserving model order reduction with a focus on mechanical systems.
Workshop “Designing Aware Robots: The EIC Pathfinder Challenge - Explore Awareness Inside”
08 December 2023
The event will be held during the next European Robotics Forum, to be held in Rimini, Italy, on March 13th – 15th, 2024.
Publication: Soft Robot Shape Estimation With IMUs Leveraging PCC Kinematics for Drift Filtering
04 December 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and collaborators propose a method to eliminate limitations in inertial measurement units (IMUs) by leveraging the Piecewise Constant Curvature model assumption.
EMERGE highlighted by EIC Programme Managers in strategic plans for the first Pathfinder challenge portfolios
29 November 2023
The Plans include portfolio activities at different levels such as, technology, transition of technology to innovation, communication and disseminations, and ethics issues.
EMERGE celebrates the its first year!
22 November 2023
The EMERGE consortium got together at Delft University of Technology and RoboHouse in the Netherlands.
Publication: Trimmed helicoids: an architectured soft structure yielding soft robots with high precision, large workspace, and compliant interactions
26 October 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and collaborators propose an architectured structure based on trimmed helicoids that allows for independent regulation of the bending and axial stiffness which facilitates tuneability of the resulting soft robot properties.
Publication: Improving Fairness via Intrinsic Plasticity in Echo State Networks
06 October 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa address the problem of algorithmic fairness in Machine Learning for temporal data, focusing on ensuring that sensitive time-dependent information does not unfairly influence the outcome of a classifier.
Publication: Residual Reservoir Computing Neural Networks for Time-series Classification
06 October 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa introduce a novel class of Reservoir Computing (RC) models, a family of efficiently trainable Recurrent Neural Networks based on untrained connections.
Publication: A Protocol for Continual Explanation of SHAP
06 October 2023
In this paper, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa tackle XAI for Continual Learning by quantitatively and qualitatively assessing the behavior of one of the most used XAI techniques called SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations).
First open meeting of the portfolio of projects funded by the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Awareness Inside“
27 September 2023
The meeting is taking place Oct. 1st, 2023, in Kraków, Poland, during the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023).
Publication: Frappe: fast fiducial detection on low-cost hardware
27 September 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol introduce an image processing algorithm called Frappe (Fiducial Recognition Accelerated with Parallel Processing Elements) for detecting and decoding the popular ArUco tags.
Publication: An Untrained Neural Model for Fast and Accurate Graph Classification
22 September 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa explore a simple form of a randomized graph neural network inspired by the success of randomized convolutions in the 1-dimensional domain.
Workshop “Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness”
12 September 2023
The workshop presents an opportunity for philosophers, computer scientists, roboticists and other experts to contribute to a nuanced understanding of ethical concerns surrounding artificial systems.
Publication: Model-Based Control for Soft Robots With System Uncertainties and Input Saturation
24 August 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and collaborators propose a robust model-based strategy for the shape control of soft robots with system uncertainty and input saturation.
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.
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: 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.
International Graduate School on Control of Soft and Articulated Elastic Robots
05 June 2023
About 40 registered PhD students and Post-docs from different European countries participated in the course taught by EMERGE partner Cosimo Della Santina (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands) and Alessandro De Luca (DIAG, Sapienza University of Rome).
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[In the Media] Avvenire: Ideas. Every intelligence (artificial and otherwise) requires ethics
04 June 2023
The EMERGE Project and the theme of artificial agents awareness is analysed and debated by Vincenzo Ambriola in a recent opinion article in the Italian newspaper Avvenire.
International Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining
30 May 2023
EMERGE partners from UNIPI are organizing the “5th International Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (XKDD 2023)” during the next European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2023), to be held in Turin, Italy, on September 18th, 2023.
International Workshop on Pervasive Artificial Intelligence
26 May 2023
EMERGE partners from UNIPI are organizing the “2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Artificial Intelligence” during the next European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2023), to be held in Turin, Italy, on September 18th, 2023.
Publication: Model-Based Control of Soft Robots: A Survey of the State of the Art and Open Challenges
25 May 2023
In their paper published in the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, EMERGE partner Cosimo Della Santina, from the Delft University of Technology (NL), and collaborators aim to streamline the domain of soft robotics for control theory researchers.
Workshop Deep Learning meets Neuromorphic Hardware
24 May 2023
EMERGE partners from UNIPI are organizing a workshop entitled "Deep Learning meets Neuromorphic Hardware" during the next European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2023), to be held in Turin, Italy, on September 18th, 2023.
Publication: Modelling Handed Shearing Auxetics: Selective Piecewise Constant Strain Kinematics and Dynamic Simulation
15 May 2023
In their paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023), EMERGE partners from the Delft University of Technology (NL) and collaborators discuss recent research progress for a new type of soft robot called Handed Shearing Auxetics (HSAs) that can rapidly change shape while remaining flexible.
Publication: Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Tentacles with Model Based Reconstruction for Controller Optimization
15 May 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and collaborators propose a new sensing approach for soft underwater slender structures based on embedded pressure sensors and use a learning-based pipeline to link the sensor readings to the shape of the soft structure.
Publication: Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control
15 May 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology and collaborators propose an artificial nose on a soft robotic arm that ensures separate smell concentration readings.
Publication: FinFix: A Soft Gripper With Contact-Reactive Reflex for High-Speed Pick and Place of Fragile Objects
15 May 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Delft University of Technology propose the FinFix gripper, a non-anthropomorphic soft gripper capable of handling delicate objects at high acceleration using a contact-reactive grasping approach.
Publication: Evolving and generalising morphologies for locomoting micro-scale robotic agents
12 April 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol and collaborators explore how the morphology of a multi-cellular micro-robotic agent can be optimised for reliable locomotion using artificial evolution in a stochastic environment.
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[In the Media] BFMTV: AI, quantum and synthetic biology under development at Da Vinci Labs
18 March 2023
Project partner Xavier Aubry, from Da Vinci Labs, presents the EMERGE Project in the French TV channel BFMTV.
Publication: Touching with the eyes: Oculomotor self-touch induces illusory body ownership
09 February 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and collaborators hypothesise that proprioceptive information is not necessary for self-touch modulation of body-ownership.
Publication: Anti-Symmetric DGN: a stable architecture for Deep Graph Networks
08 February 2023
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa present the Anti-Symmetric Deep Graph Network (A-DGN), a framework for effective long-term propagation of information in DGN architectures designed through the lens of ordinary differential equations (ODEs).
EMERGE Consortium secures grant awarded by European Innovation Council for the investigation of a new framework for AI collective awareness
30 January 2023
Project scored first among those selected by the EIC’s Pathfinder “Awareness inside” Challenge and will receive a combined €2.8M grant from the European Commission over the next 4 years.
Publication: Learning 3D shape proprioception for continuum soft robots with multiple magnetic sensors
30 November 2022
In their paper published in the journal Soft Matter, EMERGE partners from the Delft University of Technology (NL) and collaborators propose a new method for sensing the shape of soft robots: using magnetic sensors which are compact, sensitive, and can be easily embedded into soft robots.
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[In the Media] Il Sole 24 Ore: University of Pisa, start of European project for Artificial Intelligence
04 November 2022
The start of the EMERGE Project was highlighted by the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
EMERGE partners meet for the project kickoff meeting
03 November 2022
The EMERGE project's kickoff meeting took place on November 3rd in Pisa, Italy.
