This week was the opening of the second R&D lab dedicated to OpenCog R&D. Complementing the OpenCog lab in Hong Kong, we now have an OpenCog-focused facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Initial staff consists of expert C++ programmers, who will be spending their first several months training on advanced AI and OpenCog related technologies, […]
The Hong Kong Innovation in Technology Fund (ITF) has funded a two year project, 2013-2014, aimed at usingOpenCog AGI technology to control Hanson Robokind humanoid robots. The funding is via an industry-university-government collaboration scheme, in which the ITF contributes 90% of the funds, Novamente LLC contributes 10%, and Hanson Robokind contributes two Robokind humanoid robots. […]
Long-time AGI innovator Pei Wang has organized an AGI Summer School at Peking University, in the second half of July. This follows up prior AGI Summer Schools in Xiamen (2009) and Rekyjavik (2012), though the format will be a bit different. Ben Goertzel and Lake Watkins will be running a 2-day session of the Summer […]
Some exciting news is that we have five Google Summer of Code students working on OpenCog projects this summer.. Integration of ROS (Robot Operating System) with OpenCog: Arsalan Akhter, mentored by Matt Chapman Packages for Ubuntu (and other Unix-like systems) and Cygwin port: Amber Jain, mentored by Nil Geisweiller and David Hart DeSTIN/OpenCog integration: Alexander […]
As the final step in the formalization of the OpenCog Foundation as a non-profit organization, the formal constitution of the organization has been placed online on this site. According to the Constitution, OCF is a democratically run organization, with a Board elected by its membership, where the latter is defined as individuals who have substantially […]