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Holly Yanco, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Director of the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center, has been appointed as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), recognizing her distinguished contributions to advancing science, particularly in the areas of human-robot interaction, visualization of sensor data, and robotics education.

The AI-CARING affiliated workshop at HRI 2024, co-organized by Nina Moorman from Georgia Tech's CORE Robotics Lab and Michelle Zhao from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, featured panelists such as former GT member Charlie Kemp from Hello Robot Inc., one of AI-CARING's industry partners, highlighting the intersection of robotics and human-robot collaboration.

AI-CARING leaders from Georgia Tech and Northeastern University made notable contributions during the NSF AI Research Institutes Showcases and Capitol Hill Day, where all 25 NSF AI Institutes were featured.

Next-generation smart assistants will likely be designed to anticipate a user’s wants and needs, and even assist and mediate social interactions between users and their support networks.

Members of AI-CARING showcased their ongoing work at the Charlie and Harriet Shaffer Cognitive Empowerment Program (CEP) Research Symposium, which is a collaborative effort between Emory University’s Brain Health Center and Georgia Tech.

This past fall, students across campus proposed innovative and creative solutions to support individuals aging with disabilities using Stretch – an open-source mobile manipulator robot with reaching, grasping, and sensing capabilities developed by Hello Robot. The Stretch Robot Pitch Competition was hosted by Georgia Tech and sponsored by TechSAge RERC, in collaboration with Hello Robot and AI-CARING. The competition was open to all Georgia Tech students, regardless of major, and encouraged interdisciplinary collaboration.

AI-CARING Director and associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, Sonia Chernova was among colleagues at the Georgia Tech and Emory University Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leadership Network Dinner.

Carnegie Mellon University held an AI for Teachers Workshop. This one-week professional development workshop for high school teachers covered an introduction to a broad range of AI topics including deep learning, information retrieval, linear programming, machine learning, randomized algorithms, recommender systems and search.