Category: AI Hub

25.11.2022

Walking outdoors with TAssU – An extraordinary pilot about the dog robot with GettingBetter Oy and nursing home Viola-Koti

It was the last day of October 2022, when Boston Dynamics robot, Spot alias TAssU, arrived at the outdoor yard of Viola-Koti, a local nursing facility in the city center of Tampere, to prepare seniors for the upcoming winter by initiating inspirational outdoor physical activities in the group setting.

8.11.2022

Who is the yellow dog? It’s TAssU Spot Robonen!

It was a gloomy, cold Friday in October, yet we had so much energy and excitement within ourselves. Robostudio, in collaboration with AIHub Tampere and Gamification Group of Tampere University, organized a dog agility competition, and it is not an ordinary dog! It's our very own Spot from Boston Dynamics.

7.9.2022

A Real Head Turner: Exploring the Campus with The Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Dog

Technology never fails to amaze us with its advancements, making our lives a little more comfortable in the process. It might be an exceedingly difficult question to answer whether technology has adapted to human needs or humans have adapted to technological solutions as a part and parcel of their lives. The world of today might as well have been a killer science fiction story from 50 years ago. Something we have seen many times in science fiction movies suddenly jumps right in front of us. Such an event recently took place in Robostudio at Tampere University. And it's safe to say that this event felt as close as it gets to a scary robot uprising, but somehow in a positive manner!

22.6.2022

AI Hub Audio and speech technology workshop in Paidia, Nokia Arena

AI Hub Tampere organized a complimentary full-day event at Paidia workspace in Nokia Arena, which happened to also be the site of the ice hockey world championship 2022. It was a joint workshop by AI Hub Tampere and MARVEL projects to discuss the applications of audio and speech technology, AI theory, data security questions, and trying out some hands-on programming tutorials.

5.5.2022

Health Data Walk: A joint workshop of AI Hub and Health Hub Tampere

It was the week of Vappu, 2022. AI Hub and Health Hub Tampere organized a joint workshop: Health Data Walk, to discuss the secondary use of health data together with the local companies. The workshop consisted of both indoor and outdoor sessions. To provide flexible methods of participation, the indoor session adopted the hybrid model by holding live attendance on the Health Hub premises and online Zoom meetings simultaneously.

21.6.2021

AI Hub pilot with Trialwell: Usability evaluation of the Trialwell web platform to recruit participants for clinical and non-clinical trials

Trialwell supports researches by recruiting appropriate participants. AI Hub conducted a pilot study with Trialwell to evaluate their webservice with potential participants. The mission of AI Hub is to provide Aritifical Intelligence (AI) related guidance for small and medium sized companies (SMEs) free of charge. Since Trialwell will use AI to match participants’ profile with appropriate research trial, AI Hub agreed to conduct a pilot project to evaluate the usability and usefulness of the system.

12.2.2021

AI Hub workshop: Human-Robot Interaction

We arranged an interactive co-design workshop about Human-Robot Interaction on 12.2. It was targeted for company people working or interested in the areas of HRI and AI. Nice number of participants showed up online and we were ready to start with creative and active workshopping.

3.2.2021

Towards Trustworthy Data: How do data providers and consumers perceive Data Trust Index

This post describes our successful pilot with Platform of Trust, conducted recently in AI Hub Tampere project.

14.8.2020

Cross-Compiling Rust to Run on PYNQ-Z1

The PYNQ-Z1 is a versatile hardware platform used within many of our courses. Using xsct, the Xilinx Command Line Tool, one can run software on PYNQ without an operating system (OS) - a method known as bare metal. We repurposed these tools to create an executable from Rust code instead of the usual C. This will allow students to practice writing drivers and embedded software in a modern programming language.

17.12.2019

AI Hub Tampere proudly presents: Human-Machine Interaction Workshop

Friday the thirteenth was not unlucky for AI Hub Tampere after all. The project organized its 4th and final workshop of 2019 on 13th December, Human-Machine Interaction. The aim of the workshop was to gather inspiration from the existing robot demos to design for futuristic robotic solutions.

23.8.2019

Robottibussien ekosysteemi kukoistaa Suomessa

Ketkä Suomessa ylläpitävät robottibussien verkostoa? 'Robottibussin kyydissä' -juttusarjan toista osaa varten AI Hub Tampere tutki suomalaista autonomisten liikennevälineiden toimintakenttää ja haastatteli mm. holon Jannie Andersenia, liikennesuunnittelija Tuomas Palosta, Metropolian Juha Sääskiä ja Eetu Rutasta sekä Roboride Oy:n Mikko Hurskaista. Keskusteluun osallistuivat myös Sensible4:n Harri Santamala sekä Rolan Oy:n Aki Laiho.

AI Hub

1.8.2019

Robottibussin kyydissä

AI Hub Tampere koeajoi liudan pohjoismaiden kesässä liikennöiviä itseajavia busseja. Tässä juttusarjan ensimmäinen osa.