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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will show how my master's and PhD led to appli
 ed symbolic AI collaborations with Industry. I will focus on Connect-R. Co
 nnect-R is a £6M project funded by Innovate UK and industry and focuses on
  developing a multi-robot system that self-assembles into a stable structu
 re in a target environment so that other robots can traverse the structure
  to reach specific points efficiently. Target domains are nuclear plants\,
  oil and gas facilities and other extreme environments. In this project\, 
 I co-developed the planning algorithms (PI is Prof. Bernardini's) behind t
 he self-assembling behaviour of the robotic units that compose the structu
 re and also the path-finding algorithm for the MTB robots which traverse t
 he structure. The Connect-R team also includes Barrnon Ltd\, Ross Robotics
 \, Tharsus\, Jigsaw Structures\, the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Un
 iversity of Edinburgh.I will also review the planning competitions I parti
 cipated at. Furthermore\, I will discuss the SimplifAI project\, where I c
 o-developed symbolic AI algorithms used to optimize Urban Traffic Control 
 problems. This was another Innovate UK grant\, the project is supported by
  industrial partners BT\, Infohub and KAM Futures\, with technical/academi
 c expertise from The University of Huddersfield\, including myself. The en
 d customer is Transport for Greater Manchester.  The last project I will c
 omment on is SMaILE (Simple Methods for AI Learning and Education)\,  a £1
 m project funded by Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy). The goal of the SMaILE
  project is to make AI concepts accessible to a wide spectrum of young adu
 lts and children and empower them to understand AI in-depth as well as to 
 create AI technology. This project is a collaboration between RHUL\, Polit
 ecnico di Torino and the University of Turin. My role is the creation of t
 he AI Backend for the SMaILEApp (PI is Prof. Bernardini)\, an interactive 
 app to learn AI and unleash creativity. I will also discuss some of the re
 cent successes in AI and how you could be part of them. 
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LOCATION:Aula Magna DIAG\, Via Ariosto 25 Roma
SUMMARY:Symbolic AI Research and Industry: A Personal Journey - Prof. Santi
 ago Franco
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