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In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. We sat down with Abdelrahman Sayed Sayed to chat about his work on formal verification applied to autonomous vehicles. Could you tell us a bit about where you’re studying and the broad topic of your […]
Read full articleThe latest interview in our series with the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants features Ximing Wen who is researching transparent and trustworthy AI systems. We found out more about her work, her experience as a research intern, and what inspired her to study AI. Tell us a bit about your PhD – where are you studying, […]
Insider Brief Ouster unveiled a new generation of digital lidar sensors aimed at robotics, autonomous vehicles and industrial AI systems, introducing what the company says is the world’s first native color lidar platform. The company announced its Rev8 family of OS lidar sensors, powered by a new L4 Ouster Silicon architecture designed to improve range, […]
A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding new driverless cars to their fleets, expanding into new cities, or starting new test projects. It is unclear when officials will start issuing new licenses again. Bloomberg said the Wuhan incident alarmed authorities in Beijing, prompting regulators to urge local governments to review the sector to prevent similar episodes. … Read the full story at The Verge.
We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets of autonomous vehicles.
Jamillah Knowles & Digit / Pink Office / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Yolanda Gil is a professor at the University of Southern California, where she also serves as Senior Director for major strategic AI and data science initiatives. From 2018 – 2020, she was president of AAAI. In her invited talk at AAAI 2026, she […]
The latest interview in our series with the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants features Deepika Vemuri who is working on interpretability and concept-based learning. We found out more about the two aspects of concept-based models that she’s been researching. Could you tell us a bit about your PhD – where are you studying, and what is […]
How do you go about integrating causal knowledge into decision systems or agents? We sat down with Matteo Ceriscioli to find out about his research in this space. This interview is the latest in our series featuring the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants. Could you start by telling us a bit about your PhD – where […]
Insider Brief Robbyant, the embodied AI unit within Ant Group, has open-sourced LingBot-Map, a streaming 3D reconstruction model designed to enable robots and other systems such as autonomous vehicles and AR devices to map and understand their surroundings in real time using a standard RGB camera. According to Ant Group, unlike traditional approaches that process […]
