The Autonomous Agents Laboratory in the News

Over the years we have had a number of opportunities to appear in the media promoting both our work and robotics and artificial intelligence in general. A few representative features are below. If you are a member of the media interested in this work, please feel free to contact us.

Web/New Media

Any search engine will bring up a number of results linking to our work. Some of the lab's work was featured in the following:

• I Programmer did a report on our work for Robocup, in February 2014
• One of our publications on improving robotics competitions to encourage greater breadth and adaptivity in entries was discussed in an article published in the well-known German technology review Heise Online. A reasonable English Translation is available (via google language tools).
• June 15th, 2007 edition of New Scientist Magazine's Technology Blog.

Print

Our work has been covered by the Associated Press, the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other Canadian and American newspapers.

• We did a press conference in Vienna for RoboCup-2009 that was picked up by the Associated Press and appeared in newspapers around the world, including the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and many others. The Winnipeg Free Press published a large version of one of the pictures. (A pdf copy of this item is also available):
  
  
• The Winnipeg Free Press published a nice photograph of us demonstrating our work at the University of Manitoba's 2008 Homecoming Open House, without an accompanying article (A high resolution printable copy of this item is also available):
  
  
• An article from the Winnipeg Free Press, July, 2007, on our RoboCup Soccer with with the Citizen MicroRobots (A high resolution version of this item is also available for printing purposes):
  
  
• An Article from the Winnipeg Free Press, June, 2004, on our RoboCup soccer team (A high resolution version of this item is also available for printing purposes):
  

   

  

   

• An Article from the Winnipeg Free Press, August, 2004, on our RoboCup soccer team (2 pages):

   

  

   

• Our work was on the cover of the Bremen City Magazine during RoboCup-2006:

   

  

Radio/Television

We have appeared in radio and television interviews around the world. Links to some of these:

• NewsTalk 950/650 (Regina/Saskatoon) interview with John Anderson, August 4, 2007 (MP3 Audio, 20'15", 9.2 MB - recording is cut short)
• CJOB Radio (Winnipeg) interview with John Anderson, July 12, 2007 (MP3 Audio, 6'49", 6.8 MB)
• NBC TV coverage of our team at the 2007 robotic games in San Francisco - note the many different humanoid events, it's not just soccer anymore! [Download]
  
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• Canada-AM newsmagazine, June, 2006, live from Bremen (poor audio/video sync, 30MB [download]). We also have our own backstory of the CTV coverage. {mgmediabot2}path=videos/MediaCoverage/CanadaAM2006.asf|width=300|height=300{/mgmediabot2}
• Fox TV's soccer program FC Fox covered some of our work in a long segment on the RoboCup 2006 US Open (41.2 Mb [Download])

   

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• An Austrian TV magazine coverage of FIRA-2003, including our entry (in German, 19.8Mb [Download]).

   

   

• Austrian television coverage of FIRA-2003, inluding our humanoid robot, Tao-pie-pie (in German, 16.8 Mb [Download]).

   

• Hugarian television coverage of FIRA-2003, inluding our humanoid work (in Magyar, 22.3 Mb [Download]).

   

   

• Vienna news coverage of FIRA-2003, inluding our humanoid robot (in German, 7.6 Mb [Download]).