Picks of the Week

Ro'ya-CV4Africa A Grassroots Computer Vision Community for Africans and by Africans
AI Robots online version of an article in IEEE Spectrum "Where's my Robot Butler?", November 2024.
Robot Learning for Africa Workshop 2025 at the Deep Learning Indaba Rwanda
MIND Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand
You don’t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device
Science Robotics Special Issue: Highlighting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of robotics
Molmo Multimodal Open Language Model built by Ai2
Collaborative Robots with Cognitive Capabilities for Industry 4.0 and Beyond G. Sandini, A. Sciutti, and P. Morasso, AI, 5(4), 1858-1869, 2024.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip and a deeper analysis of this breakthrough. The Limits of Quantum Computers dispels some of the hype around quantum computing
A Unified Vision for European Robotics A Strategy for Innovation, Growth and Societal Impact
Inside AI: An Algorithmic Adventure. Published by UNESCO, this is a graphic novel, i.e., a comic strip story, for young people (and old people too) who want to understand AI and its impact on society.
Note: this is an intentionally inclusive book, in all the best senses of the term. For that alone, it's worth reading.
Large Language Models explained briefly by Grant Sanderson, 3Blue1Brown
Life in The Largest Urban Slum | Delphine Nyaboke | TEDxKigali Women An inspirational TEDx talk by an engineer who triumphed against all the odds
Coderina Engaging Youth in STEM Exploration with FIRST® LEGO® League
Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds
How AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work – visual explainer
Black in AI
‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?
Gyroscopic Precession is Easier Than You Think!
AI Prompt Engineering is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering (IEEE Spectrum)
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
IEEE guide to the world of robots (this is a new and improved version of what was already a great website)
No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
Creating questionnaires with LaTeX from Sven Hartenstein
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? (and a lot more besides) by Stephen Wolfram
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (edited extract) and An interview with the authors
Robotics in Africa Forum at IROS 2024
Beware the ‘botshit’: why generative AI is such a real and imminent threat to the way we live André Spicer
On the Origin of Deep Learning Haohan Wang and Bhiksha Raj
Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way by Rolling Resistance
Women in Robotics
AI Act Tutorial