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What makes a conversation pleasant? How would you talk if your objective was to be as engaging and useful as possible with a person you’ve never met, without appearing annoying? Now with some context: you are a robot, and your role is to guide and help people in a [...]

Mandatory Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science/ Control / Robotics/ AI At least 3 years C++ experience Knowledge about SLAM algorithms Proactive team working attitude Good communication skills (at least in English) Good knowledge of ROS and the ROS Navigation Stack European work permit Desired Requirements: Experience with real [...]

How can an artificial intelligence find its bearing in a real environment? How can it understand that an object, or a living thing has moved and make a logic link between an environment at a specific moment and the same environment an instant later? These are all complex questions [...]

Dialogue may seem natural to you, but it involves a series of distinct, complex tasks in order for two or more people to interact smoothly. To recreate that for a conversational AI, such as the one to be featured in the ARI-SPRING robot, you need to emulate a dialogue [...]

Contract type: Fixed-term contract Level of qualifications required: Graduate degree or equivalent Fonction: PhD Position Theme/Domain: Vision, perception and multimedia interpretation, Information system Partner, country, city: Inria, France, Grenoble (Montbonnot) Starting date: 2020-10-01 Duration of contract: 3 years Deadline to apply: 2020-07-08 Remuneration: 1st and 2nd year: 1 982 [...]

The human ear, and information treatment by our brain is capable of wonders. Not only simply hearing, filtering and selecting important sounds over non important ones (noise), but also spatially situate the origin of sounds. A social robot, like ARI-SPRING, which needs to evolve in a real-world environment with [...]

Ever tried asking your AI assistant, or even a robot having cameras, "is there a free seat in the waiting room"? Probably not, because you know it won't be able to answer. This is actually a non-trivial issue of automated fusion of different sources of information, such as for [...]

Ever used your phone’s face recognition system to unlock it? Did it work well? Perhaps not every time… Try using it under harsh lighting conditions, turning your head sideways, masking your face with your hands, cap or sunglasses, and it will surely fail. This may be because detecting key [...]

ARI is a high-performance robotic platform designed for a wide range of multimodal expressive gestures and behaviours, making it the ideal social robot and suitable for Human-Robot-Interaction, perception, cognition, navigation, and interaction. Its behaviour can be customised using ROS (Robot Operating System) API and the provided, easy to use, [...]

With SPRING, PAL Robotics is developing robots that could help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic PAL Robotics is collaborating as a partner in SPRING, one of a number of projects especially important during the COVID-19 health pandemic. New technological solutions are needed quickly, and this includes robots [...]