Autonomous Agents Laboratory

Our work with Jennifer, our new autonomous hockey-playing robot, was featured tonight on The Discovery Channel's Daily Planet. It was a really great shoot, and we'd like to thank the Bisons for coming out and adding to the action. You can jump to small (50 MB), medium (100 MB) or large (200mb) size versions of the video (6:16).

We are hosting the Computational Intelligence in Humanoid Robotics Winter School, from Feb 20-24, and we are proud to acknowledge RoboCup as a sponsor. Late registration is possible right up to Feb 20, and the course is tailored to be approachable even from the hobbyist robotics level. Please see the school website if you are interested.

Jennifer is our new autonomous hockey-playing robot. The related video in the videos section of this site has been submitted to the DARWIN-OP Humanoid Application Challenge, at IEEE ICRA in St. Paul in May. The challenges of humanoid hockey over soccer include balancing on skates on a slippery surface, Manipulating a puck with a stick as opposed to the robot's feet (i.e. arm and leg motions), and making shots oriented from the side as opposed to the front from the standpoint of perception. There are also interesting issues in keeping equipment operational at low temperatures. Jennifer is named after Jennifer Botterill, the Canadian three-time Olympic gold medal hockey player.

Thanks for all the cool mentions in tech blogs on this, including IEEE Spectrum, Engadget, ITWorld, Science News Blog, Tecca, and Geek.com. A nod also to Total Pro Sports and Yahoo Sports - it's not often we cross over the pro sporting side of the media.

Edit: we had a few direct media contacts today, but it seems to have been picked up by the Post, the Star, and the Montreal Gazette, via The Manitoban.  Thanks for scoopin' em on this!

We just returned from the FIRA Roboworld Cup in Kaohsiung Taiwan, competing in the FIRA Hurocup. Among the events, we won second place in the Marathon, completing an 84m track in 8 minutes 50 seconds, a full four minutes faster than the previous world record. Images from FIRA-11 are in the associated Gallery, and videos can be found in the videos section of our website
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We came in third in the world in teen-size humanoids at RoboCup-2017, along with our partner, Amirkabir University of Technology, and took third place in the Technical Challenge!

About Us

The Autonomous Agents Laboratory is one of the research laboratories within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, and is directed by Dr. John Anderson and Dr. Jacky Baltes. The goal of our work is the improvement of technology surrounding hardware and software agents as well as the development of applications employing these technologies. We are especially interested in cooperation in multi-agent settings, and the infrastructure necessary to support this and other forms of social interaction in intelligent systems.

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