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A history of RoboCup with Manuela Veloso

RoboCup is an international competition that promotes and advances robotics and AI through the challenges presented by its various leagues. We got the chance to sit down with Professor Manuela Veloso, one of RoboCup’s founders, to find out more about how it all started, how the community has grown over the years, and the vision […]

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AIhub monthly digest: February 2026 – collective decision making, multi-modal learning, and governing the rise of interactive AI

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we explore multi-agent systems and collective decision-making, dive into neurosymbolic Markov models, and find out how robots can acquire skills through interactions with the physical world.

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How can robots acquire skills through interactions with the physical world? An interview with Jiaheng Hu

One of the key challenges in building robots for household or industrial settings is the need to master the control of high-degree-of-freedom systems such as mobile manipulators. Reinforcement learning has been a promising avenue for acquiring robot control policies, however, scaling to complex systems has proved tricky. In their work SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space

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AIhub monthly digest: January 2026 – moderating guardrails, humanoid soccer, and attending AAAI

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we find out about a robot to navigate hiking trails, learn from logical constraints, analyse the effectiveness of moderation guardrails, and travel to Singapore to attend

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Taking humanoid soccer to the next level: An interview with RoboCup trustee Alessandra Rossi

A core objective of RoboCup is to promote and advance robotics and AI research through the challenges offered by its various leagues. The ultimate goal of the soccer competition is that, by 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots will defeat the most recent winner of the FIFA World Cup. To bring this vision

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2025 digest of digests

2025 has seen another busy 12 months in the world of artificial intelligence. Throughout the year we’ve reported on some of the larger stories, and some of the lesser-covered happenings, in our regular monthly digests. We look back through the archives and pick out one or two stories from each of our digests. January 2025

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