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by Adriana Hamacher

24 April 2015

#ICML2025 outstanding position paper: Interview with Jaeho Kim on addressing the problems with conference reviewing

AIhub 15 Sep 2025

Jaeho argues that the AI conference peer review crisis demands author feedback and reviewer rewards.

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

EPFL 11 Sep 2025

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model.

Robots to the rescue: miniature robots offer new hope for search and rescue operations

Horizon Magazine 09 Sep 2025

Small two-wheeled robots, equipped with high-tech sensors, will help to find survivors faster in the aftermath of disasters.

#IJCAI2025 distinguished paper: Combining MORL with restraining bolts to learn normative behaviour

Agata Ciabattoni and Emery Neufeld 04 Sep 2025

The authors introduce a framework for guiding reinforcement learning agents to comply with social, legal, and ethical norms.

Researchers are teaching robots to walk on Mars from the sand of New Mexico

Oregon State University 02 Sep 2025

Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars

Engineering fantasy into reality

MIT News 26 Aug 2025

PhD student Erik Ballesteros is building “Doc Ock” arms for future astronauts.

RoboCup@Work League: Interview with Christoph Steup

AIhub and Lucy Smith 22 Aug 2025

Find out more about the RoboCup League focussed on industrial production systems.

Interview with Haimin Hu: Game-theoretic integration of safety, interaction and learning for human-centered autonomy

AIhub and Lucy Smith 21 Aug 2025

Hear from Haimin in the latest in our series featuring the 2025 AAAI / ACM SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants.