AIhub monthly digest: July 2024 – attending RoboCup, real-world simulators, and AI and cognitive science

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we take a trip to RoboCup2024, see what the International Conference on Machine Learning had in store, and learn about interactive real-world simulators. RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal of advancing the state of the art of intelligent robots. As part of this initiative, a series of competitions and meetings are held throughout the year. The showcase event is an international affair with teams travelling from far and wide to put their machines through their paces.