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Information about the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) 2011 Robotics Program held in San Francisco, California is presented. The event reportedly included a demonstration of research at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence. Lecturers include David Touretzky, Sonia Chernova, and Zachary Dodds. It notes that the participants convened 18 short seminars before the exhibition.

Turn taking is a fundamental part of human communication. Our goal is to devise a turn-taking framework for human-robot interaction that, like the human skill, represents something fundamental about interaction, generic to context or domain. We propose a model of turn taking, and conduct an experiment with human subjects to inform this model. Our findings from this study suggest that information flow is an integral part of human floor-passing behavior. Following this, we implement autonomous floor relinquishing on a robot and discuss our insights into the nature of a general turn-taking model for human-robot interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 19th robotics program at the annual AAAI conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 2010. In this article we give a summary of three components of the exhibition: the Small-Scale Manipulation Challenge: Robotic Chess; the Learning by Demonstration Challenge; and the Education Track. In each section we detail the challenge task. We also describe the participating teams, highlight the research questions they tackled, and briefly describe the systems they demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The AAAI 2010 Workshop on Enabling Intelligence through Middleware (held during the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence) focused on the issues and opportunities inherent in the robotics middle-ware packages that we use. The workshop consisted of three invited speakers and six middle-ware research presenters. This report presents the highlights of that discussion and the packages presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the topics discussed during the 2009 Spring Symposium Series by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University in California on March 23-25, 2009 is presented. It states that the event aims to initiate the development of a problem repository in the field of qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. Moreover, presenters of the event identified the challenges for the future midterm and long-term research.