The ninth AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) is taking place in Malmö, Sweden from 12-14 October 2026. The panel discussion will take place on Tuesday 13 October. Find out more at the conference webpage . Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

This year, RoboCup will be held in Incheon, South Korea, from 2-6 July. The event will see teams take part in competitions, training sessions, and a symposium. It's an exciting time for RoboCup, as there have been some updates to the leagues and competition format . Most prominently, the soccer leagues will have a primary focus on humanoid robots. A workshop focused on sharing projects, experiences, and innovations in educational robotics.

This will take place at 11:00 on Tuesday 29 September. Find out more here .

Marcin Wilkowski / More info please / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics . Members of the report team, and other selected AI practitioners, are taking part in a series of video panel discussions covering selected chapters from the report. In the next discussion in the collection, the panellists discuss AI evaluation. The four dimensions of evaluation the report says we're missing: capability, usability, human-system performance, and legal/ethical compliance Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) was held in Vienna from the 1 - 5 June. The event brought together researchers and industry professionals with expertise spanning many different aspects of robotics. IEEE have made the keynote and plenary talk recordings available to watch . You can also catch the panel discussions and keynote tutorials. Panel 4 - Publish or Perish: Surviving the Paper Deluge - Is AI the solution?

RoboCup 2026 saw history made, as two teams of 11 humanoids took to the soccer field, the first time a full complement of robots has competed. The game saw (Bremen, Germany) take on (Leipzig, Germany), with both sides using machines designed by Booster Robotics. Back in 1997, RoboCup's founders set the lofty goal of developing a team of autonomous robots that could beat the human World Cup champions by 2050. There has been significant progress since those early days, and this match saw another step towards that ambition. "This match shows how far humanoid robotics has come," said Ubbo Visser, President of the RoboCup Federation.

The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics . Members of the report team, and other selected AI practitioners, are taking part in a series of video panel discussions covering selected chapters from the report. In the next discussion in the collection, the four panellists tackle AI and scientific integrity. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place in the next couple of months. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. Anna Hedström (ETHZ) EPFL The Zoom link is here . Jie Chao (Concord Consortium) Raspberry PI Sign up here to join. Stefan Klein and Anna Bon The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here .

On the 31st March, our editorial team headed to the Royal Society for AI for Science . This day-long conference explored how AI is changing the nature of scientific discovery, and was hosted by the Alan Turing Institute. The recordings from the event are now available on YouTube and are well worth a watch. You can read Ella Scallan's blog post about the day here . Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics . Members of the report team, and other selected AI practitioners, are taking part in a series of video panel discussions covering selected chapters from the report. In the sixth discussion in the collection, the three panellists tackle factuality and trustworthiness. Understanding factuality: why preventing false outputs from large language models remains AI's toughest problem Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.