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Join us for a hands-on morning of using and deploying the flagship model of the Swiss AI Initiative, learn first hand from the engineers and scientists working on Apertus.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe workshop runs from <strong>9:30 to 12:30</strong> at the EPFL AI Center Lounge in Lausanne. Doors open at 9:00.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Background</strong>: Apertus is a fully open large language model built in Switzerland, which is fully reproducible and can run on your own infrastructure. As a Foundation Model, it has already been adapted to specific contexts through post-training and fine-tuning processes. In addition to open access at all Swiss academic institutions, a growing number of Swiss and international commercial providers support Apertus for production deployment.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis workshop is also designed as a two-way conversation: alongside learning how to use and deploy Apertus, we want to hear how your organization is already working with AI, and where today's tools still fall short for you. We would like to hear about the languages, legal contexts, and use cases you operate in. This input will give us the opportunity to prioritize improvements for non-profit organizations on the Apertus roadmap.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nAt this workshop, you will have the chance to:\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>See how Apertus, a fully open, Swiss-built LLM, can be deployed on your own infrastructure</li>\r\n\t<li>Get hands-on experience using the technology itself, not just a description of it</li>\r\n\t<li>Tell the team building Apertus where it's falling short for your work, and help shape where it goes next</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe morning will include:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>An introduction to Apertus: what it is, how it works, and why self-hosting is possible</li>\r\n\t<li>A live walkthrough of deploying Apertus on your own infrastructure</li>\r\n\t<li>Hands-on exercises applying Apertus to tasks relevant to your organization</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExact schedule will be sent to participants closer to the event.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u><strong>! <a href=\"https://luma.com/k910o3e1\">REGISTRATION REQUIRED !</a></strong></u>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-28T13:24:00", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-28T13:29:08", "link_label": "Registration required", "link_url": "https://luma.com/k910o3e1", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELE 117", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELE%20117", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://luma.com/k910o3e1\">See program</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.swiss-ai.org/\">Swiss AI Initiative</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://luma.com/user/usr-N7kyqdDP9T2cIhr\">Clara Meister</a> & <a href=\"https://luma.com/user/loleg\">Oleg Lavrovsky</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121957/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72690, "title": "Electronic Prototyping 1", "slug": "electronic-prototyping-1", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/electronic-prototyping-1", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33916/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33916/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33916/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-06", "end_date": "2026-10-06", "start_time": "18:15:00", "end_time": "20:00:00", "description": "<p>Components, measurements, wiring, and first circuit builds: everything you need to quickly go from idea to circuit!</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-28T13:16:59", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-28T13:57:34", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CM 1 5", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%205", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Olive Petroff <br>\r\nRobin Arthur Guillaume-Gentil", "organizer": "RoboPoly", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121955/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/123/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72705, "title": "The uncomfortable truth", "slug": "the-uncomfortable-truth", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/the-uncomfortable-truth", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33930/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33930/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33930/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-28", "end_date": "2026-10-28", "start_time": "17:30:00", "end_time": "19:00:00", "description": "<p>Behind every fast-growing startup lies a story of experimentation, setbacks, and continuous reinvention. Drawing on the experience of <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbieri/\"><strong>Vincent Bieri</strong></a><strong>, co-founder of Nexthink - the Swiss-born technology company that grew into a unicorn - </strong> this seminar will look beyond headlines and valuations to examine the challenges, tough decisions, and perseverance that shape the entrepreneurial journey.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Viewpoint Series, is a new entrepreneurship seminar series designed to expose students and scientists to real-world perspectives from founders, operators, and investors.<br>\r\nSupported by <a href=\"e4s.center\">E4S </a>and organized by <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/schools/cdm/\">EPFL - College of Management of Technology</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/schools/cdm/ehub/\">EPFL Entrepreneurship Education Hub</a>, it brings together experienced practitioners to share candid perspectives on:\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>Navigating uncertainty and key transitions</li>\r\n\t<li>Critical inflection points in building ventures</li>\r\n\t<li>Lessons learned along the entrepreneurial journey</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n <br>\r\nCombining inspirational talks with interactive discussions, the series encourages reflection and dialogue on what it truly means to build and scale ventures.<br>\r\n <br>\r\n<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-29T10:04:56", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-01T09:54:12", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx?origin=NeoPortalPage&subpage=design&id=alXC9vvEsUqix54iDfEcQ3T6XowngO9FnfVR8iOh7ptUNEJYQVhSS1pCNlg2Q0RDNUg1S1g4SVVFVC4u", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CM 1 3", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%203", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbieri/\">Vincent Bieri, co-founder of Nexthink and Role Model for Project Switzerland</a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "Davide Bavato", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121981/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/3/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/38/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/145/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72685, "title": "IMX Colloquium - Towards life-inspired soft matter dynamics and functionalities", "slug": "imx-colloquium-towards-life-inspired-soft-matter-d", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-colloquium-towards-life-inspired-soft-matter-d", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33987/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33987/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33987/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "13:15:00", "end_time": "14:15:00", "description": "<p>Biological systems have already paved several routes for bioinspired materials, e.g., for structural colours, wetting, adhesion, and mechanical properties. They have largely involved equilibrium or kinetically trapped properties. By contrast, biological systems allowing multifunctional properties are characteristically dissipatively and dynamically adaptive and incorporate homeostatic feedback mechanisms to regulate the dynamic states. They also typically use signal transduction to mediate the signal from the sensory elements to the responsive sites, unlike the classic man-made stimuli responsive materials. These concept suggest avenues towards more complex life-like functions in soft matter. Herein, optically driven hydrogel systems are presented to drive homeostatically controlled thermal oscillations and to mediate signal transduction via thermal intermediate signalling (1). On the other hand, biological magnetoreception in elasmobranch organisms involves electromagnetic induction (EMI) and suggests avenues for bioinspired electrical signal transductions. We show magnetic profile recognition of translocated magnetically encoded soft matter objects using electrical intermediate signaling by EMI and decoding the magnetic information with machine learning (2). Combination of high stiffness and promoted dynamics for self-healing has turned challenging to combine. Self-healing hydrogels, still combining high tensile stiffness close to that of skin were shown by using polymers upon nanoconfinement in 2D-nanosheet layered confinements (3). Finally, we show trainable actuations in bilayer gel actuators (4). Ever more complex responses can be created, such as mimicking the Pavlovian classical conditioning (5), all paving ways for growingly life-like functions for soft robotics and interfacing with biology.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n1. H. Zhang, H. Zeng, A. Eklund, H. Guo, A. Priimagi, O. Ikkala, Feedback-controlled hydrogels with homeostatic oscillations and dissipative signal transduction, <em>Nat. Nano</em>, <strong>17</strong>, 1303 (2022).<br>\r\n2. Z. Miao, X. Hu, K. Liu, S. Hu, G. Yan, H. Tan, O. Ikkala, Z. P. Lv, B. Peng, Bioinspired sensory transduction for magnetic profile recognition and encryption, <em>Adv. Mat.</em> <strong>38</strong> e15994 (2026).<br>\r\n3. C. Liang, V. Dudko, O. Khoruzhenko, X. Hong, Z.-P. Lv, J. Breu, O. Ikkala, H. Zhang, Stiff and self-healing hydrogels by polymer entanglements in co-planar nanoconfinement, <em>Nat. Mater.</em> <strong>24</strong>, 599 (2025).<br>\r\n4. S. Hu, Y. Fang, C. Liang, M. Turunen, O. Ikkala, H. Zhang, Thermally trainable dual network hydrogels, <em>Nat. Commun.</em>, <strong>14</strong>, 3717 (2023).<br>\r\n5. H. Zhang, H. Zeng, A. Priimagi, O. Ikkala, Programmable responsive hydrogels with classical conditioning algorithm, <em>Nat. Commun.</em>, <strong>10</strong>, 3267 (2019).</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-28T09:13:29", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-06T10:29:12", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MXF 1", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%201", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Olli Ikkala, Aalto University, Department of Applied Physics, Espoo, Finland", "organizer": "Prof. Gregor Jotzu, Prof. Esther Amstad & Prof. Fabien Sorin", "contact": "Prof. Gregor Jotzu, Prof. Esther Amstad & Prof. Fabien Sorin", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121946/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/314/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72681, "title": "Recent results on travelling water waves", "slug": "recent-results-on-travelling-water-waves", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/recent-results-on-travelling-water-waves", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33907/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33907/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33907/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-30", "end_date": "2026-10-30", "start_time": "14:15:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nThe study of water waves is a classical problem at the interface of mathematics and physics. In<br>\r\nthis talk, I will consider two-dimensional travelling waves governed by the full Euler equations<br>\r\nand driven solely by gravity. I will present two recent results. First, using global bifurcation<br>\r\ntheory, we construct periodic travelling waves with arbitrary vorticity. These waves may exhibit<br>\r\ncritical layers and overhanging profiles, illustrating the rich range of phenomena permitted in the<br>\r\nwater wave problem. Second, for irrotational solitary waves, we establish a new and sharper<br>\r\nupper bound for the Froude number (a non-dimensional wave speed). The talk is based on joint<br>\r\nwork with Evgeniy Lokharu and Erik Wahlén.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-25T15:52:26", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-28T09:40:42", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MA A1 12", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MA%20A1%2012", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr. Jörg Weber", "organizer": "", "contact": "B. Buffoni, SMA", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121940/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/7/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72673, "title": "lunch&LEARN | Access Timing as Scaffolding: Does the timing of GenAI access matter?", "slug": "lunchlearn-access-timing-as-scaffolding-does-the-3", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/lunchlearn-access-timing-as-scaffolding-does-the-3", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33899/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33899/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33899/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-13", "end_date": "2026-10-13", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<p>Generative AI has become a part of students' everyday working life. If used without guidance, GenAI can cause over-reliance and leave students with a distorted sense of what they have actually learned. Most research and practice have focused on how we can scaffold students' GenAI use, for example through prompts, guardrails, or redesigned tasks. This talk asks a simpler question that has received far less attention. When should students be allowed to use AI so that it helps their learning?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn this lunch&LEARN session, Janne Rotter turns to a question that's been largely overlooked: not how, but when should students be allowed to use AI for it to actually support learning? Janne will present findings from a study of 105 university students comparing three conditions: unrestricted AI access, no access at all, and a \"timed\" condition where students could only turn to AI after first attempting the task on their own.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDrawing on multiple pedagogical theories to build a decision rule for when access should open up, the results show that students in the timed condition outperformed those with unrestricted access on an objective post-test, and had a more accurate sense of their own understanding, without an explicit metacognitive prompting. Compared to withholding AI entirely, timed access also seemed to reduce task errors and time spent on task.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nJoin us to learn more about the topic and engage in further discussion. <br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-24T15:53:46", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-28T15:37:37", "link_label": "Registration/zoom", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/9pBBuqZHQge7OmGTm0Kedg#/registration", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ME A3 31", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20A3%2031", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/9pBBuqZHQge7OmGTm0Kedg#/registration", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/janne.rotter?lang=en\">Janne Rotter</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://learn.epfl.ch/en/homepage/\">Center LEARN</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a>", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "lunch&LEARN, Center LEARN, teaching, learning, AI", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121926/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/3/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/65/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/85/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/145/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/323/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72665, "title": "2026 UNIL/EPFL MD-PhD Retreat", "slug": "2026-unilepfl-md-phd-retreat", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/2026-unilepfl-md-phd-retreat", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33897/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33897/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33897/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-18", "end_date": "2026-11-18", "start_time": "08:45:00", "end_time": "18:00:00", "description": "<p>An annual scientific meeting organized by the Lausanne MD-PhD Commission UNIL and EPFL. Medical students interested in combining medicine and research are warmly welcome. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe retreat brings together MD-PhD students and candidates, alumni, thesis directors and faculty members. Medical students interested in pursuing an MD-PhD are warmly welcome to discover the programme and meet its community. Attendance is mandatory for students currently enrolled in the MD-PhD programme.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe programme includes research presentations and posters by doctoral students, invited talks, interactive speed coaching with UNIL/EPFL principal investigators and MD-PhD alumni, and a roundtable with senior clinical and academic leaders on clinical career pathways and support for MD-PhD graduates. Prizes will recognise the best oral presentation and the three best posters.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCoffee and croissants will be served from 08:45, with the opening at 09:00. The roundtable is scheduled from 15:00 to 16:00, followed by an apéritif and informal discussions. The event is expected to finish by 18:00, including the apéritif. The provisional programme is available below and remains subject to change.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nLunch and the closing apéritif are offered. To register, please download, complete and save the registration form available below, then email it as an attachment to [email protected], indicating whether you will attend lunch and the apéritif. 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This event is restricted to the EPFL community !</strong></u><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Title</strong><br>\r\nLearning to Play at Human Speed: From Simulation to Expert-Level Robot Table Tennis<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nWhat does it take for a robot to compete with a human in one of the fastest and most dynamic sports?<br>\r\nTable tennis compresses many of the fundamental challenges of physical AI into just a few hundred milliseconds. The robot must perceive a ball travelling at high speed, estimate its position and spin, predict its trajectory, decide how to respond, and execute a precise motion, all while interacting with an intelligent and unpredictable opponent.<br>\r\nIn this talk, I will present Project ACE, an autonomous table tennis robot developed at Sony AI that progressed from learning basic racket skills to competing with elite human players. I will discuss the complete system behind this progression: high-speed visual perception, reinforcement learning, simulation, robot control, and the iterative sim-to-real process that enabled policies trained in simulation to perform on a real robot. Beyond table tennis, ACE provides a case study in what it takes to move from impressive robotic demonstrations to robust physical intelligence. I will share some of the lessons we learned about combining learning with control, using real-world failures to improve simulation, and designing AI systems that can adapt and act under the speed, uncertainty, and constraints of the physical world.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nMireille El Gheche is a Lead Research Scientist at SoftBank Robotics, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics. 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