Kempner Seminar: The Neuroscience of Skill, Lessons from a Decade of Musculoskeletal AI

Alexander Mathis of EPFL's Brain Mind Institute looks at how AI competitions over ten years produced musculoskeletal agents that handle dexterous manipulation, table tennis and soccer penalty kicks, controlling as many as 290 muscles. He connects them to psychological theories of skill learning and argues the field can now study whole-body skill learning computationally. Held in SEC 3.301 to 3.303 in Allston. The series is open to the public and the page lists no registration requirement.