I'm Alex Kearney, I'm Science at the University of Alberta. I focus on Artificial Intelligence and Epistemology.
The future and all that jazz: a poetry and live music event on AI and robotics.
Idea: a murder mystery where someone mentions their will and doesn't end up dead.
The lab telepresence robot is actually being used, and it's kind of weird.
The robot sways to give a life-like sense to the speaker, but it still feels like they're a disembodied head.
The BLINC lab just made a pretty neat video about the adaptive prosthetics work we do.