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Happening at RI

Examining Engagement and Motivation in a Conversational Robotic Exercise Coach for Older Adults

Event Category:
PhD Speaking Qualifier

Speaker:
Rayna Hata

Event Time:
Friday, December 12th - 11:00 AM

Examining Engagement and Motivation in a Conversational Robotic Exercise Coach for Older Adults

Event Category:
MSR Thesis Defense

Speaker:
Rayna Hata

Event Time:
Friday, December 12th - 11:00 AM

Modeling what Matters: Emergent Abstraction In Reinforcement Learning

Event Category:
PhD Thesis Defense

Speaker:
Benjamin (Ben) Freed

Event Time:
Friday, December 12th - 3:00 PM

SCS Faculty Receive Amazon Research Awards

Amazon has named three Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science researchers among the 63 recipients of its latest Amazon Research Awards.

Helping Robots Think on Their Feet

The Breakdown The BFM-Zero system lets humanoid robots switch seamlessly between many skills. It relies on unsupervised reinforcement learning, allowing robots to explore, generalize and self-improve. The system moves robotics closer to general-purpose humanoids that can adapt safely...

The Perfect Shot

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new kind of lens that can bring an entire scene into sharp focus at once — no matter how far away or close different parts of the scene are.