08 February 2024
A coating that can hide objects in plain sight, or an implant that behaves exactly like bone tissue. These extraordinary objects are already made from ‘metamaterials’. Researchers from TU Delft have now developed an AI tool that not only can discover such extraordinary materials but also makes them fabrication-ready and durable.
02 February 2024
The start of 2024 has brought a new ICAI lab as part of the ROBUST program: GENIUS (Generative Enhanced Next-Generation Intelligent Understanding Systems). The GENIUS lab seeks to extend and enhance generative AI methods to support human experts in answering scientific and operational questions, through collaborative semantic knowledge engineering between people and AI systems. The GENIUS lab is a collaboration between Delft University of Technology, Maastricht University, dsm-firmenich, and Kickstart AI, and an NWO Long-Term Programme initiated by the Innovation Centre for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI).
AI has the potential to support crowd crises decisions, yet the increasing use of AI has led to a debate about the legal and ethical implications. To address these challenges, the AI-COMPASS consortium, led by TU Delft, develops real-time decision support systems, considering context, behaviour, and values. The project is financed by the Collaboration between Humans and (semi-)Autonomous systems programme of NWO.
21 December 2023
On 14 December, the End-of-the-Year AI Lab Lunch celebrated the achievements and remarkable growth of AI at TU Delft with more than 100 people at Café Labs, which was named ‘AI Labs’ for the occasion. This festive event was the perfect moment for the launch of the TU Delft AI Initiative’s booklet— a collection of activities, highlights and successes.
20 December 2023
How do we design AI systems so that humans retain enough control? Years of work by Delft researchers and international colleagues have resulted in the first handbook on 'meaningful human control' for systems with autonomous properties. David Abbink, professor of haptic human-robot interaction and scientific director of TU Delft's interdisciplinary research institute AiTech, and Geert-Jan Houben, pro-vice rector of AI, Data and Digitalisation and leader of the TU Delft AI Initiative, talk about how Delft’s research into 'meaningful human control' should lead to more responsible development and implementation of systems with autonomous properties, and how Delft has taken a leading role in this worldwide.
10 November 2023
12 October 2023
How can we engineer better software by using artificial intelligence (AI)? TU Delft and JetBrains are joining their knowledge and expertise on AI and software development in the new AI for Software Engineering Lab (AI4SE). The goal of the collaboration is to develop a deep understanding of how novel AI technologies can strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of software engineering processes.
21 September 2023
Researchers at Delft University of Technology and RWTH Aachen University have put ChatGPT’s knowledge on science and engineering to the test. By letting 198 Delft scientists evaluate GPT-3.5’s answers to questions covering natural science and engineering disciplines at the university, they found out how well the large language model can answer university level questions.
13 September 2023
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that the HybridLabs consortium will receive 10.4 million euros in funding within the National Research Agenda programme: Research on Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC). The HybridLabs consortium project will accelerate Dutch innovations in offshore renewable energy through data-driven hybrid labs. The consortium consists of around 40 partners and is led by the TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, with a valuable contribution from the team Dynamic Stability of Sustainable Electrical Power Systems of EEMCS’ Intelligent Electrical Power Grids Group (IEPG).
30 August 2023
The use of AI is on the rise across society, including by governments. For example, AI is used in the scan cars that drive around cities and use machine vision to monitor public space. AI increases efficiency, but can we, as citizens, trust its decisions? With Contestable AI, we design decision-making systems that allow citizens to express disagreement throughout their lifecycle. This is a way to ensure that government AI is worthy of people’s trust.