Photos: Robots play football at AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva

Organisers said the AI conference showed the ways tech could improve, even transform lives

Published: June 01, 2024 16:18 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor and with inputs from Reuters

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Geneva: Teams of robots jostled on a miniature artificial football pitch as androids answered trivia questions and took jabs at human ignorance at an artificial intelligence summit on the technology's wide-ranging uses. Image Credit: AFP

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Organisers said the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva showed the ways the technology could improve and even transform lives. Image Credit: Reuters

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Displays showed off prosthetic limbs that could learn from a user's behaviour and adapt to muscle activity, devices to help visually impaired people avoid obstacles in the street and bionic cats and dogs built to act as companions. Image Credit: AFP

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The football-playing robots were the work of a group of students from the university of ETH Zurich. Image Credit: AFP

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"The project allows our undergraduate and graduate students to collect experience on a full robotic platform," Jan-Nico Zaech, the project's scientific supervisor, said. Image Credit: Reuters

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Nao robots of the Nomadz team, programmed by the ETHZ and Insait Bulgaria, play a game of soccer during the AI for Good Global summit on artificial intelligence, organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in Geneva, Switzerland Image Credit: Reuters

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Robots using artificial intelligence are seen at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva. Image Credit: AFP

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A student of Texas Robotics shows an AI brain-computer interface allowing him to control his hand with his thoughts. Image Credit: AFP

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