HUMANOBS is a CADIA-led €2M, 3-year research project to develop the next-generation AI architectures that grow by self-programming. We will develop an artificial television-show host that can learn how to conduct interviews by watching people. The AI will observe what people say and do and then imitate not just their behavior but also their intentions. Based on the concept of model-driven cognition, we aim to lay a foundation for machines with a more general-purpose intelligence.

CADIAPlayer has been CADIA's entry into the 2007 and 2008 International Game Playing Competition held at the AAAI conference. The competition draws participants from a large number of AI labs around the world. CADIA has walked away twice with the highest score, a considerable achievement as these have been CADIAPlayer's first two years participating in such a competition.

We are inventing new methods to create believable human behavior in animated characters for massively multiplayer games. We focus on communicative behavior between characters in the game world, emphasizing natural motion and social interaction. Characters are either fully controlled by the game AI or under the direction of human players. For the latter, we are also exploring new high-level user interfaces. This research is done in collaboration with CCP Games. Related projects: BML Realizer.

Vélaldin is a new development platform for exploring emergent phenomena and complex systems. Based on cellular automata, Vélaldin has been designed with an emphasis on flexibility of the cells, enabling the user to define and implement a number of their features. Vélaldin provides a complete environment in which emergent, complex systems can be implemented and experimented with in a diverse manner.

Superhumanoid One (S1) is the first phase of many in the Superhumanoids project, a multi-year research project which aims to build the next generation of social robots. S1 is currently being brought to life as a fully autonomous radio show host, SuperRadioHost, fully equipped to create a radio program and interview people in a live broadcast. The next Superhumanoid, S2, due to be started in 2007, will will marry the brain of S1 with a graphical SuperBody, as well as animation and multimodal planning and sensing technologies.

The main objective of this research project is to develop more efficient algorithms for real-time terrain navigation in large dynamic environments with multiple moving agents. The immediate focus will be on applications to commercial computer games, although such techniques may also prove useful in other domains that require real-time decisions making using limited computing and memory resources.

Skundar is a robot platform that evolved from the Garage-AI effort and is now growing into its own project focused on intelligent interaction in social environments. The Skundar platform was built at a very low cost. We are keeping that platform intact while augmenting it with new features, especially more sophisticated software and more capable sensing hardware. We aim to make Skundar capable of interacting in realtime with people walking in the CADIA hallways.

An on-going effort to unify the work of many A.I. researchers through a multi-prong approach including a central repository of work, a common API and routing protocol with an open-source reference implementation, a common scheduling blackboard architecture and a forum for dialogue among members of the A.I. community.