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  • Can we trust robots? Researchers aim to make them safer

    Ari. Photo: Nelly Sahlstrand
    Ari. Photo: Nelly Sahlstrand
    Published Dec 10, 2024

    What will it take for robots to earn our trust? The PerCorSo project within the Wallenberg-financed research programme WASP explores how to make robots safe, reliable, and socially aware, focusing on ...

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  • WASP-affiliated researchers win best paper award

    Shivam Mehta, Simon Alexanderson and Anna Deichler.
    Shivam Mehta, Simon Alexanderson and Anna Deichler.
    Published Aug 22, 2024

    A team of researchers and doctoral students affiliated with WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program) were honoured with the Best Paper Award at the inaugural Human Motion Generat...

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  • Eight WASP researchers appointed Wallenberg Scholars

    Wallenberg Scholars 2024. From top left: Amy Loutfi, Andrei Sabelfeld, Dejan Kostic, Virginia Dignum
    Wallenberg Scholars 2024. From top left: Amy Loutfi, Andrei Sabelfeld, Dejan Kostic, Virginia Dignum, Anders Ynnerman, Danica Kragic, Karl Henrik Johansson and Tobias Ekholm.
    Published Apr 30, 2024

    This year, four WASP researchers have been appointed as new Wallenberg Scholars and four received an extension of their Wallenberg Scholar period. The Wallenberg Scholars program provides leading rese...

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  • New lab trains space robots in weightless environments

    Two out of the three free-flyers, or "spacebots". In the background: Elias Krantz, PhD student at K
    Two out of the three free-flyers, or "spacebots". In the background: Elias Krantz, PhD student at KTH, and part of the DISCOWER team.
    Published Apr 18, 2024

    At a newly opened lab at KTH, space robots are training to navigate in weightless environments. The lab is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe and was built by the team in the WASP NEST-project D...

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  • Bo Wahlberg receives 2024 Janne Carlssons stipendium for academic leadership at KTH

    Published Apr 18, 2024

    Bo Wahlberg, Professor in Automatic Control, KTH director and member of the program management of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), has been honored with the 2024 Ja...

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  • Computer science professor Martin Monperrus honoured for pioneering the use of Machine Learning

    Martin Monperrus
    Martin Monperrus
    Published Mar 07, 2024

    Martin Monperrus, professor of software engineering, has, together with two international colleagues, been honoured with the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for a software development paper from 2009.

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