Simulation to reality (sim2real) transfer from a dynamics and controls perspective usually involves re-tuning or adapting the designed algorithms to suit real-world operating conditions, which often violates the performance guarantees established originally. This work presents a generalizable framework for achieving reliable sim2real transfer of autonomy-oriented control systems using multi-model multi-objective robust optimal control synthesis, which lends well to uncertainty handling and disturbance rejection with theoretical guarantees. Particularly, this work is centered around an actuation-redundant scaled autonomous vehicle called Nigel, with independent all-wheel drive and independent all-wheel steering architecture, whose enhanced configuration space bodes well for robust control applications. To this end, we present a systematic study on the complete mechatronic design, dynamics modeling, parameter identification, and robust stabilizing as well as steady-state tracking control of Nigel using the proposed framework, with experimental validation.

Delighted to welcome Nigel Willson on this week's episode. Nigel is the founder of www.awakenai.org and former CTO for Professional Services at Microsoft, he describes himself as Global Speaker, Influencer and Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Technology (Ranked amongst top 20 AI Influencers in the World) - ex European Chief Technology Officer but now an independent voice on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - and he is genuinely all of these things. I met Nigel at a Microsoft event where he blew my mind and most of the audience, on the future of AI and quantum computing. He is also the first person that has been able to explain what quantum is in terms that are easy to understand, and the potential impact this is going to have on society and business. In this episode we discuss : What is Artificial Narrow Intelligence vs Artificial General Intelligence? The ethical challenges facing AI as a technology. Is the Terminator a reality. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and how business is using it today and where it may go. The potential impact of AI on the workforce. The dangers of lazy AI. As a leader of a business, what do you need to be thinking about right now on AI for you and your company to remain relevant. Connect with Nigel on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelwillson/ Follow him on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nigewillson

In 2016, Justin Bieber topped the music charts, the country searched frantically for a presidential candidate's lost emails, and mobile browsing tipped the scales on desktop traffic for the time. The ensuing focus on the mobile experience steamrolled most other areas of development, leading top companies to allocate the majority of their budgets to meet the needs of connected users on-the-go. You may no longer be a Belieber, but you are likely still tapped into staying mobile and connected with ease. Enter the bots and the AI revolution. From intelligent solutions like Google Home and Alexa, to the pop-culture rise of HBO's Westworld as a must-watch show, AI is taking center stage around the world.

Humans will come to love robots like they are'family' rather than fear them as the enemy, according to a leading Oxford University scholar. Sir Nigel Shadbolt says we are entering an age where AI will act as a carers for the elderly and a friend for lonely children. He claims that fears robots will turn on people and destroy humanity are unfounded. Robots will become beloved members of the family, not the enemy of humanity, claims leading Oxford University scholar. Sir Nigel, a professor of computer science at Oxford University, made the comments at the Hay Festival in Wales.

I recently stumbled across the Kimera AGI project and saw new possibilities for our future... Presently, if we want to communicate with our friends and family on social media, we have to use intermediaries such as Facebook and Google. Imagine a world where our devices are intelligent, and when we want to announce something, we don't need to use a corporate middleman such as Facebook - because our devices already know who our friends and family members are - we simply give the information to our Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Personal Assistant (PA) on our phone or tablet, and it sends the information directly to our friends' and family members' AGI PA on their devices. The information you send remains private - only your friends and family receive it. It doesn't end up in a third-party corporate database where personal information can be extracted, analysed and sold behind your back. Now what if you also got paid for using said AGI PA? Incentivised usage!

Nigel AGI, the artificial general intelligence with an Android app front-end made by Kimera Systems, is entering phase three as of today, and will begin to actually apply what it's learned about its users and the world so far to take independent action. Everything that Nigel does, and will be doing, is because it has noticed users tending to do those things over time. The new functions will begin to manifest once users take an update to the Nigel app, which should be live in the Play Store within the next few days. The updated Nigel app will begin applying automated actions that it has learned from its user base at large, even to brand new users who are just joining up and downloading the app. At this stage, very few users in the beta will notice Nigel actually doing anything totally unique to them, even if they've had Nigel on their phone watching them from the beginning.

There's a new bot in town: Nigel, a software assistant that its creators at Oregon-based Kimera Systems say can learn from the behavior of its users. Nigel was "born" on Friday, when Kimera co-founder and CEO Mounir Shita fired up the program for a private beta test at a birthday party in downtown Portland. It's named after one of the software's principal architects, Nigel Deighton, who passed away in 2013. Kimera says a public beta version of the program will soon be made available. CEO Mounir Shita and COO Nick Gilman deliver Nigel! #AGI is born!

The field of artificial intelligence has spawned a vast range of subset fields and terms: machine learning, neural networks, deep learning and cognitive computing, to name but a few. However here we will turn our attention to the specific term'artificial general intelligence', thanks to the Portland-based AI company Kimera Systems' (momentous) claim to have launched the world's first ever example, called Nigel. The AGI Society defines artificial general intelligence as "an emerging field aiming at the building of "thinking machines"; that is general-purpose systems with intelligence comparable to that of the human mind (and perhaps ultimately well beyond human general intelligence)". AGI would, in theory, be able to perform any intellectual feat a human can. You can now perhaps see why a claim to have launched the world's first ever AGI might be a tad ambitious, to say the least.

Nigel is CEO and Founder of When Labs: artificial intelligence for augmenting management, driving compliance, employee engagement, retention, and productivity. Nigel's passion for HR and management comes from over two decades of building and managing teams from two to thousands around the globe, and led to his acquisition of Kenexa, a human capital management company, the 6th largest acquisition IBM had ever made. Nigel is a proven leader and innovator. As founding CTO of Footprint Software, a fintech startup, he engineered the largest retail banking system of its kind, building the fastest growing startup in Canada at the time, which sold to IBM. There, he architected IBM's entry into Open Source software, making IBM the first major corporation to embrace Linux and Apache, and was founding product line manager for their most successful organic software product of the last two decades, WebSphere.

It was back in May of this year that Google's AI AlphaGo beat the high-profile Go player Lee Sedol at his own game. What was a surely disappointing moment for Sedol, losing 4-1 to the AI, was a revelation for the tech community. Media organisations quickly picked up the story, proclaiming AlphaGo's success a demonstration of AI's superiority to humans. But while it may seem that we're headed for a Skynet scenario, artificial intelligence has yet to live up to our expectations of what "intelligence" really is. My interest was peaked when I first heard about Kimera System's latest algorithm, Nigel; the first example of artificial general intelligence.