RoboCup2025 is currently taking place in Salvador, Brazil. With day one of the main competition complete, things are hotting up across the many different leagues. From soccer to rescue, from industrial to home scenarios, teams are putting their robots through their paces across a variety of tasks and matches. If you would like to catch up on the action from … Read More
A behaviour monitoring dataset of wild mammals in the Swiss Alps
Two roe deer foraging, with manual annotations for each individual animal. Credit: A. Mathis (EPFL). By Nik Papageorgiou Have you ever wondered how wild animals behave when no one’s watching? Understanding these behaviors is vital for protecting ecosystems—especially as climate change and human expansion alter natural habitats. But collecting this kind of information without interfering has always been tricky. Traditionally, … Read More
#ICML2025 social media round-up 1
The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2025) is currently taking place in Vancouver, Canada, running from 13-19 July. As well as five invited talks, the programme boasts oral and poster presentations, affinity events, tutorials, and workshops. Find out what participants have been getting up to during the first couple of days. ✈️ Traveling to #ICML2025. Presenting our paper: Quantifying … Read More
Congratulations to the #ICML2025 award winners!
This year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2025) is taking place in Vancouver, Canada, from 13-19 July. The winners of the 2025 outstanding paper, outstanding position paper, and test-of-time awards have now been announced. Outstanding paper awards There are six outstanding papers this year: Conformal Prediction as Bayesian Quadrature Jake Snell, Thomas Griffiths Abstract: As machine learning-based prediction systems are … Read More
Tackling the 3D Simulation League: an interview with Klaus Dorer and Stefan Glaser
A screenshot from the new simulator that will be trialled for a special challenge at RoboCup2025. The annual RoboCup event, where teams gather from across the globe to take part in competitions across a number of leagues, will this year take place in Brazil, from 15-21 July. In advance of kick-off, we spoke to two members of the RoboCup Soccer … Read More
Wildlife researchers train AI to better identify animal species in trail camera photos
In this trail camera photo, provided by Oregon State University undergraduate student Owen S Okuley, bighorn sheep are seen at the Kerr Guzzler in the Mojave Desert. By Steve Lundeberg Oregon State University scientists have improved artificial intelligence’s ability to identify wildlife species in photos taken by motion-activated cameras. Their study, which introduces a less-is-more approach to the data on … Read More
Why is ZK proof altcoin Lagrange (LA) dropping amid a rally in crypto market
Lagrange (LA) drops 22% despite Binance listing and market rally. LA price currently hovers near key support at $0.3902 after a sharp correction. The recent price drop follows June’s 216% surge after Coinbase listing. Lagrange (LA), a zero-knowledge proof altcoin designed to power advanced blockchain computations, is experiencing a sharp price decline even as broader crypto markets enjoy a bullish … Read More
What’s coming up at #RoboCup2025?
This year, RoboCup will be held in Salvador, Brazil, from 15–21 July. The event will see around 3000 participants, from 300-400 different teams take part in competitions, training sessions, and a symposium. You can see the schedule for the week here. The leagues and their competitions The league competitions will take place on 17-20 July. You can find out more … Read More
What’s on the programme at #ICML2025?
This year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will take place in Vancouver, Canada from 13-19 July 2025. As well as five invited talks, the programme boasts oral and poster presentations, affinity events, tutorials, and workshops. Invited speakers The five invited speakers are as follows: Jon Kleinberg Pamela Samuelson Frauke Kreuter Anca Dragan Andreas Krause Affinity events There are four … Read More
Introducing the NASA Onboard Artificial Intelligence Research (OnAIR) platform: an interview with Evana Gizzi
Evana Gizzi at the Microsoft Global Hackathon. Image credit: Microsoft. The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2025), which took place alongside AAAI 2025, serves as a showcase for successful applications and novel uses of AI. One such application is the Onboard Artificial Intelligence Research (OnAIR) platform, introduced by Evana Gizzi and colleagues in their paper … Read More
