🛡️ Sandboxing & Simulation for Safe Autonomous Agents — the essential risk-reduction layer that lets powerful agents be thoroughly tested in high-fidelity digital twins before touching real assets, processes, or people. Just read this excellent capstone technical white paper from @aasaitech on safe exploration, graduated rollout (simulation → shadow mode → supervised → expanded → full autonomy with guardrails), and digital twin fidelity. Key highlights: • Simulate process dynamics, equipment behavior, control logic, edge cases, disturbances, safety constraints & economic impact • 5-stage roadmap with continuous feedback loops • Architecture: Real systems ↔ Data sync ↔ Simulation engine ↔ Agent sandbox ↔ Evaluation & monitoring • Industrial wins: Dramatically lower risk, faster iteration, regulatory readiness, stakeholder trust This is the critical safety bridge that makes the entire series (agents, long-horizon planning, physical integration, hybrid architectures, verification, governance, etc.) responsibly deployable in manufacturing and edge orchestration. Full white paper infographic: x.com/aasaitech/status/20656… How are you ensuring safe agent deployment — high-fidelity digital twins sandboxing, shadow mode pilots, or full graduated rollout with strong guardrails? #Sandboxing #DigitalTwins #SafeAutonomy #AgenticAI #IndustrialAI #ManufacturingAI #EdgeAI

While the rest of the world drives safer with Tesla FSD, Europe is still waiting for approval. It’s time for the EU and RDW to move forward — not stay stuck in the past. @RDWnl @teslaeurope @elonmusk #FreeFSD #SafeAutonomy #TeslaEurope #InnovationBlocked #FSDNow

🛡️ Today’s Safe AI & Robotics Spotlight, aligned with the mission of Safe AI Coalition, emphasizing safety, transparency, human-first design, and embodied intelligence. Robots & drones train for lifesaving missions In the latest round of the DARPA Triage Challenge, autonomous drones and robot dogs were deployed in simulated disaster zones to locate, assess, and triage injured victims — significantly reducing response time in scenarios “where there are more patients than medics”. 🔗 govtech.com/em/safety/simula… #SafeAI #Robotics #AIAlignment #SafeAutonomy #RobotSafety #AIandRobotics #PhysicalAI #AIGovernance #TechEthics #AIStandards #AIForGood #SafeAICoalition #FutureOfAutomation

We would very much welcome that. Please contact us as SafeAutonomy@warwick.ac.uk

Wrapping up a very ☀️ & cricket frenzy 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 for 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 at @wmgwarwick. A month of many firsts for us: ✨ 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 - 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚 🏏 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 Had my big fanboy moment meeting the legendary Sunil Gavaskar at @Edgbaston. As a 90s kid, have grown up listening to Sunny Sir's commentary & meeting him, made it my best cricket experience ever. And it got even better: had the honour to meet the Indian Women's Cricket Team at the reception hosted by @HCI_London. Congratulations to the Women's team on their series win 👏 ✨ 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 @metoffice'𝐬 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Had a huge honour to join colleagues at the @IMOHQ. Thank you @metoffice for everything you do to keep our seafarers safe... 🙏 ✍ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬: I've had the privilege to talk & learn from people from all walks of life, & I want to share this experience with the community. I started publishing LinkedIn articles to share my thoughts. 📖 bit.ly/45IgQeN : Has Tesla finally cared about the safety of their actual “self-driving” robotaxi? ✨@isostandards 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 🇨🇿: As part of the ISO TC204 WG14 committee, we had a productive meeting to discuss upcoming standardisation on automated driving, including our roadmap for robotaxi standardisation ✨@techtuesdaysuk 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 @GoogleUK: Was pleased to join the panel discussion at #TechTuesdaysUK on "𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 🇮🇳: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐀𝐈 & 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥". Together with my fellow panellists and the audience, we unpicked the huge opportunities in India & the need for a local-first approach to AI. ✨@PAVEUK_ 𝐚𝐭 @fosgoodwood🏁 Together with colleagues from @transportgovuk & @ccavgovuk, Team PAVE UK were at the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed to speed up the public's understanding of self-driving technology. As always, watch this space for our next steps. If you want to work with us, plz 📧  SafeAutonomy@warwick.ac.uk

Our Safe Autonomy expert, Professor @siddkhastgir, comments on the Government’s #AI Opportunities Action Plan & the Prime Minister’s AI speech. See his full response here: bit.ly/4ahyA1b #AIOpportunitiesActionPlan #SafeAutonomy @SciTechgovuk @transportgovuk @ccavgovuk

#EmbodiedAI #SafeAutonomy #AISafety #Marl I had many conference and presentation travels this semester, and thanks JHU News-Letter for reporting my research contribution for Safe Autonomy jhunewsletter.com/article/20…

🚨 ✨ 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆... 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 for #ADAS & #AutomatedVehicles. Apply 🔗 shorturl.at/uFrXB We are significantly growing our 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 @wmgwarwick over the next months. This post is 1st of many... If you are interested in fast paced impact focussed research, we would be keen to hear from you... If you would like to discuss aspects of the role, please do DM me or contact: SafeAutonomy@warwick.ac.uk

We have recently welcomed four new members to our research team. Each will help the Centre to advance its work in implementation and lifelong assurance of AI and autonomous systems. bit.ly/cfaa-expands-its-rese… #safeAI #safetyassurance #ethicalAI #autonomoussystems #safeautonomy

Professor @siddkhastgir contributed his expertise in safety assurance for automated transport systems to the latest Parliament Office of Science and Technology (POST) briefing. Read more: bit.ly/4dua90u @WMGbusiness #SafeAutonomy #AutomatedVehicles #AVAct2024

More details at: sites.google.com/view/rss202… Safe autonomy mailing list: safe-autonomy.org/ with Rajat Talak, Giovanni Cioffi, Fanta Camara, Davide Scaramuzza, Marco Pavone, and Tat-Jun Chin [n/n] @drmapavone @TalakRajat @davsca1 #robotics #safeAutonomy #RSS24

Do you work on state estimation, Visual #SLAM, or #VIO? Are your algorithms robust enough for agile robotics? Take part in the #RSS2024 Robust State Estimation Competition! Submission deadline: June 23rd, 2024 To enter the competition, submit your trajectory results on the test sequences of the UZH-FPV dataset, which contains visual and inertial data recorded onboard a quadrotor flying at high speeds. This data was used to train our autonomous system that defeated the world-champion drone-racing pilots in several head-to-head races, which we published in Nature a few months ago: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… The competition winner will be invited to give a talk at the workshop on #safeAutonomy at RSS24. Dataset page: fpv.ifi.uzh.ch/ Competition page: fpv.ifi.uzh.ch/rss-2024-fpv-… RSS Workshop page: sites.google.com/view/rss202… Kudos to @giov_cioffi @RoboticsSciSys

New £10m Centre launches dedicated to to pioneering research and innovation at the intersection of AI and safety. The centre is a partnership between @LR_Foundation and @UniOfYork Read more: york.ac.uk/assuring-autonomy… #SafeAI #AISafety #SafeAutonomy

🚨✨New Opportunities for 2024 I am hiring for multiple Post-Doc (at different levels) positions & #PhD positions at @wmgwarwick, as we further grow our Verification & Validation research for Automated Transport (land, air, & marine). We have positions in the following research areas: - Safe AI - Software Developer (one or more of C , C#, Python, Java, .NET, NodeJs) - Web developer (front-end and back-end) - Data Scientist - Human Factors (and Human-Computer Interaction) - Sensor modeling & testing - Fully funded PhD studentships (in Safe #AI & testing) If interested, plz 📧SafeAutonomy@warwick.ac.uk For any queries about the roles, plz do reach out to me. 👇Sneak peek into our research, our impact, & our focus on creating real-world solutions with strong research outputs... @responsibleaiuk @tas_hub @HVM_Catapult @PhDVoice @PhDForum @WarwickEngineer @its_uk_org @AcademicChatter

I'm planning to recruit 1-2 PhD students at UIUC. We work on #safeAutonomy, #formalverification, #ML-enabled control. See our recent papers on perception contracts, topological entropy, and Verse for representative samples. Reachable by email, DM, at CDC (Singapore) Dec 12-16.

🎓🚀 Big congrats to Dr. Dawei Sun on acing his PhD defense! The work amalgamates #MachineLearning and #FormalMethods for #robotics and #safeautonomy 🤖💡 Your brilliance shines; here's to your success and impact! daweisun.me/ 🌟👏 #PhDComplete #Trailblazer

Autonomous vehicles require an enormous amount & variety of technologies to work. #SensorFusion brings those technologies together... but how? Learn more by reading "Sensor fusion and its role in #SafeAutonomy" in the latest issue of Velocity magazine >> hxgn.biz/3rvIue1

An electrifying ride into the future! At #AVTExpoCA this year, Cepton's Co-founder and Chairman of Technology Advisory Board, Dr. Mark McCord will discuss how Cepton lidars are tailored for the biggest automotive trends: #safeautonomy, #softwaredefinability, #electrification

we extended the deadline for the #SafeAutonomy workshop at #RSS2023 @RoboticsSciSys to June 12! submit your extended abstract/short paper & compete in the "Perception failure" video competition to get a $300 award! sites.google.com/view/rss202… -- with @TalakRajat,@drmapavone,TJ Chin

workshop on #safeAutonomy at RSS 2023 @RSS_Foundation - submit your short paper and contribute to the perception failure challenge!