AI milestones in 2013
4 documented milestones from 2013.
Schaft Inc Robot Wins DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013
In December 2013, Schaft Inc, a Japanese robotics company acquired by Google in October 2013, won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials at Homestead Miami Speedway, Florida, scoring 27 out of 32 points across eight disaster-response tasks and finishing ahead of 15 other teams.
Xinlei Chen, Abhinav Shrivastava and Abhinav Gupta at Carnegie Mellon University present NEIL (Never-Ending Image Learner) at ICCV 2013
In December 2013, Xinlei Chen, Abhinav Shrivastava and Abhinav Gupta at Carnegie Mellon University presented NEIL (Never-Ending Image Learner) at ICCV 2013, a continuously running system that autonomously mined semantic relationships between visual concepts from unlabelled web images without human supervision.
Kirobo Robot Launched to the International Space Station
In August 2013, a consortium comprising the University of Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corporation, Dentsu Inc., and JAXA launched Kirobo, a small humanoid robot capable of speech recognition and natural-language conversation, to the International Space Station aboard HTV-4 to serve as a conversational companion for Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.
Google, NASA and USRA Launch Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
In May 2013, Google, NASA Ames Research Center and the Universities Space Research Association jointly established the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames facility, housing a D-Wave Two quantum processor to investigate whether quantum annealing could accelerate machine-learning tasks.