Situated AI is a minor introduced in 2024/25, available only to BSc AI students. Its theme is Situated AI, where the term “situated” covers four aspects such as embodiment and interaction with humans. Specifically, the minor has five courses covering robotics, reinforcement learning, conversational AI, formal logic in AI, and their integration in a project.
The aim of the minor is twofold: 1) to offer a complement to the rest of the AI curriculum that can allow students to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of situated AI; 2) to better equip students with hands-on skills such as robot programming, reinforcement learning and LLMs, among others; and 3) to enable students to gain deeper knowledge and experience into state-of-the-art AI techniques and libraries. We expect this minor to also better contribute to research activities at the VU Amsterdam, and reduce the barrier for Bachelor students to make contributions to real-world research activities.
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