Passive Coupling in Robot Swarms
NSH 4305Abstract: In unstructured environments, ant colonies demonstrate remarkable abilities to adaptively form functional structures in response to various obstacles, such as stairs, gaps, and holes. Drawing inspiration from these creatures, robot swarms can collectively exhibit complex behaviors and achieve tasks that individual robots cannot accomplish. Existing modular robot platforms that employ dynamic coupling and decoupling [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Newell-Simon Hall 4305Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Structures and Environments for Generalist Agents
1305 Newell Simon HallAbstract: We are entering an era of highly general AI, enabled by supervised models of the Internet. However, it remains an open question how intelligence emerged in the first place, before there was an Internet to imitate. Understanding the emergence of skillful behavior, without expert data to imitate, has been a longstanding goal of reinforcement [...]