Category: Blog

Karelics Oy at ROSDevDay 2021

It is then obvious that when we have heard that a new installment of the RosDevDay conference will also take place in 2021 as an online event, in spite of all the drawbacks imposed by the ongoing COVID pandemic, we have decided that Karelics also had to be there and not by just simple attendance but also by being one of the gold sponsors of the conference.

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Shaping the robotics competence center of Joensuu

At Karelics, one of our main missions is to shed more light on the fact that the 21st century is already shaping up to be the century of robotics and is high time we already made the general public aware to the existence of intelligent robots that can be our day to day helpers and can make our lives better and easier.

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Using Gazebo for Reinforcement Learning

The world is highly complex. To operate in this complex world with self-driving robots, it would be hard to program all the tasks by hand, creating rules for every subtask and action. We humans can complete really complex tasks just by setting for ourselves the final goal for what we are supposed to do.

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Can Artificial Intelligence play Minecraft?

Last year, I got an incredible opportunity to join a team at University of Eastern Finland and compete in MineRL competition. The competition sponsored by Microsoft aimed to push the boundaries of state-of-the-art reinforcement learning and sample efficient learning.

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From Video Game to Real Robot

Can you train a deep learning agent in video game and then transfer this learned information to a real world robot? How can we handle the differences in visuals and action spaces between the game and reality?

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