Lab Awarded DURIP Grant
The RAIR Lab was awarded a grant for the proposal "Cognitive Robot Manipulation by Visual Question-Answering for Advanced Micro-Environments".
Link to ReleaseThe RAIR Lab was awarded a grant for the proposal "Cognitive Robot Manipulation by Visual Question-Answering for Advanced Micro-Environments".
Link to ReleaseLab Director Prof. Selmer Bringsjord spoke on the Academic Minute regarding the use of ethically-correct AI in weapons.
Link to PodcastThe RAIR Lab appeared in the Spring 2019 Rensselaer Alumni Magazine in a feature titled "Delving Deep Into Artificial Intelligence".
Link to ArticleThe capstone demo for the exploratory phase of TAI R&D, showing a blending of multi-robot problem-solving and cognitive visual question answering.
Link to DemoThe RAIR Lab's project to develop the formal specification and automatic software tools for a highly expressive doxastic logic.
Project PageThe Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory is located in the 3rd and 4th floor of the historic Winslow building. To reach the Winslow Building by GPS, search for 'Winslow Building Troy NY'.
Research and development in the RAIR Lab ranges across a number of applied projects, as well as across many of the fundamental questions AI raises (e.g., Are we machines ourselves? If so, what sort of machines?). Everything is to a high degree unified by the fact that the formalisms, tools, techniques, systems, etc. that underlie the lab's R&D are invariably based on reasoning.
Because of this, logic plays for us a central role (since, after all, logic is the science of reasoning), but reasoning can be implemented in many ways, and so to reach our goals we happily turn to, from among the RAIR Lab's many options, the computational reasoner that helps get the job.