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University of Texas at Austin Team Wins Robot Soccer World Championships in...
The UT Austin Villa Standard Platform League RoboCup World Champion Team, which includes Dr. Peter Stone, doctoral students Todd Hester, Sam Barrett, Katie Genter, Piyush Khandelwal and Jake Menashe,...
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The Austin Business Journal reports on our robot squad’s triumph in Mexico City.
View ArticlePutting the Auto in Automobile
Peter Stone talks about autonomous vehicles and intersections with Michael Breen of American Mathematical Society on this podcast episode of Mathematical Moments.read more
View ArticleRobot Sport: Heavy Hitters
Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid stridesread more
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The Economist speaks with Dr. Peter Stone about how making sporting robots can aid in using them for rescue missions.
View ArticleThe UT^2 Game Bot Judged More Human Than Humans
The UT^2 game bot, created by Jacob Schrum, Igor Karpov, and Professor Risto Miikkulainen, won the Humanlike Bot Competition at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012). The...
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UT^2 Game Bot Judged More Human Than Human
Screenshot from Unreal Tournament 2004, the videogame in which in which multiple players and bots battle each other with different weapons and abilities.read more
View ArticleThey Are Robots and This Is Robocup
A website devoted to covering the world of soccer adds a pinch of science by covering Robocup.
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Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing’s Centenary
AUSTIN, Texas — An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more...
View ArticleA New Computer Game ‘Bot’ Acts Just Like a Real Person
BBC News is one of many outlets to report that computer scientist Risto Miikkulainen and his team stepped away with first place at the annual BotPrize Competition for a bot that displayed behavior very...
View ArticleDisruptions: How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities
While driverless cars might still seem like science fiction outside the Valley, the people working and thinking about these technologies are starting to ask what these autos could mean for the city of...
View ArticleAI Groups See Success at Summer Conferences
UTCS's AI group enjoyed considerable success at this summer's conferences.read more
View ArticleTo Make Intersections Smarter, We Need Cars To Be Smarter, Too
Kurt Dresne, one of Professor Peter Stone's former UT Computer Science graduate student spoke with NPR's Robert Siegel recently about his thesis research on autonomous intersection management in a...
View ArticlePeter Stone Can't Get Enough Of Robots Playing Soccer
Professor Peter Stone spoke with Joe Palca this morning on NPR's Morning Edition about taking his "passion for soccer into the lab" in a segment aptly titled "Peter Stone Can't Get Enough Of Robots...
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Self-driving Cars Are Right Around the Corner; Then What?
It is easy to envision autonomous cars as simply allowing drivers to safely multitask while “driving” — that they will be otherwise quite similar to today’s cars on today’s roads. However, much bigger...
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