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A conversation with host Chuck Crumpton on where AI is genuinely transformative and where it is oversold: scaling laws and their plateaus, the architectural constraints holding progress back, and why a disruptive breakthrough, rather than more compute, is what would move the timeline.
PalermoLive tells the story of Luca Scimeca's path from Sicily to Edinburgh, Cambridge, and finally Harvard and Dana-Farber, where he worked on machine learning for cancer research.
At SmartHort 2019, a UK conference on new technology for horticulture, Luca Scimeca presents the agricultural robotics work he led at the University of Cambridge. He shows a lettuce-harvesting robot that cuts reliably, though still more slowly than human pickers, explains why soft, hard-to-model crops are so difficult for robots, and discusses the long road from research prototype to a machine growers can use.
Removing the outer leaves from an iceberg lettuce is still done by hand. A team at Cambridge's Machine Intelligence Laboratory paired a machine vision pipeline with a 3D-printed suction nozzle that tears each leaf away without bruising the head. It fully removed a leaf in half of its attempts, taking about 27 seconds on average. Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Diffusion models are excellent at generating data. Getting them to also respect a constraint means sampling from an intractable posterior — Relative Trajectory…
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Deep networks lean on whatever feature is easiest to fit — recognizing ducks by the lake behind them. We build a test that exposes which cues a model prefers…
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Cambridge researchers are designing the healthcare robotics of the future by investigating a robot-assisted approach to training doctors in medical examinations.
ReadA robot that can autonomously learn to play piano by mimicking the dynamics of different human playing styles.
ReadRobotics and medicine — applying machine learning and tactile sensing to the autonomous detection of abnormal lumps in soft bodies.
ReadA mathematical framework for the active exploration of robot control and morphology, to aid in tactile discrimination tasks.
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