What is assistive technology? How can you get it?
Read more about assistive technology. What is assistive technology, how can you get it, are you able to fund it in your NDIS plan and more.
Why is meal planning important for people with a disability?
Compared to the general population, people living with disabilities can be at a greater risk of developing certain diet-related health conditions. Meal planning can help to develop healthy eating habits.
Transitioning to independent living for people with a disability
Moving out of the family home can be a challenging time for a person with a disability and their family members. So how do we navigate this new adventure successfully and make sure that the person you love is safe, healthy and happy..
Limbic scaffolding: bridging the gap between AI and robotics
What would we gain from a robot that has all the perceptual capabilities and dexterity of a human as well as a mind that can make use of those capabilities? Read more.
Forbes: LG And aKin To develop AI home helpers for families living with disability
aKin is focusing on taking things one stage further by creating a more empathetic, goal-orientated home AI system that will be initially targeted towards caregivers living with disabled family members.
Interview with aKin’s Chief Product Officer Erika Whillas on human-centred design
What is human-centred design and how can it make artificial intelligence more inclusive?
aKin wins Outstanding Paper Award at CEC 2019
Chief Research Officer, Alexander Hadjiivanov, beat hundreds of students with his paper on evolutionary computation.
aKin's vision for human-AI co-evolution
Check out our recent keynote on Personal AI at Creative Innovation in Melbourne.
aKin wins grant to build 'limbic scaffolding' for rapid prototyping of intelligent robots.
Thanks to the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, aKin will develop a platform to speed up bringing together AI brains and robot bodies.
An emotionally intelligent AI could support astronauts on a trip to Mars
aKin's work with NASA's JPL on emotionally intelligent embodied AI and the future of Akin's AI research has been featured in MIT Technology Review! Read the article here.
aKin wins significant space agency grant for ‘AI crew for Space’.
The Australian Space Agency has awarded aKin a grant to build helper and inspector robots, and an AI habitat manager.
Start with a billion users in mind
If Liesl Yearsley, CEO of aKin, wants to drive the co-evolution of Artificial Intelligence as society’s companion and a tool to enable positive progress for all. Read the full article here.
Complexity-based speciation and genotype representation for neuroevolution
Joint paper by Alexander Hadjiivanov and Alan Blair. Introduction of a speciation principle for neuroevolution where evolving networks are grouped into species based on the number of hidden neurons, which is indicative of the complexity of the search space.
Continuous adaptive learning for neural networks
This study presents a biologically plausible method (based on the operation of the mammalian retina) which can convert raw input continuously into a form that is suitable for both the training and deployment stages of neural networks.
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Ed Husic's AI centre of excellence to focus on ethical, humanist AI
The Labor party's $3 million pledge for a new artificial intelligence centre of excellence that will aim to make Australia a hub of "ethical" AI development
aKin beats a field of 2,200 applicants for a female founders grant for commercial expansion.
The Boosting Female Founders Initiative will help aKin to scale its Home AI for people living with disability.
CEO Liesl Yearsley at the Singularity University Summit
Video of aKin CEO, Liesl Yearsley, speaking at the SingularityU Australia Summit.
Local pioneer lands Silicon Valley and Westpac backing for human AI at aKin
Read the Financial Review article about Liesl Yearsley. A pioneering entrepreneur who sold her AI business to IBM has bagged funding from Silicon Valley investors and Westpac's Reinventure fund.
Research by Alan Blair, Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales
An overview of research from Professor Alan Blair, Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales
Liesl Yearsley’s, CEO and founder of aKin | Overview of research
Overview of research by Liesl Yearsley, founder and CEO of aKin and CEO/Founder of three previous successful companies.
Robotics adoption matters: combining artificial and natural intelligence
In the last day of the Robotics adoption matters series, Alexander Hadjiivanov discusses the case for AI in human-robot collaboration.
The Importance of Being (L)earnest
The benefit of biological inspiration in machine learning and natural language processing.
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We Need to Talk About the Power of AI to Manipulate Humans
Our tendency to become emotionally attached to chatbots could be exploited by companies seeking a profit. Liesl Yearsley in Technology review.
Creating conversational AI for everybody
A•kin's Head of AI Design tells us about how her thinking changed once she started designing AI for people with disability.
Epigenetic evolution of deep convolutional models
Winner of the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
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Innovator Series: Liesl Capper Yearsley
Welcome to our series that showcases some of Australia’s innovators, movers and shakers in and around ICT.
Tech firms move to put ethical guard rail around AI
a·kin CEO, Liesl Yearsley, quoted in Wired
How can robots help people living with spinal cord injuries?
By talking to people living with spinal cord injuries we've discovered robots can be useful home helpers.
What's the link between diet and ASD symptoms?
What does the research say about different diets and autism symptoms?
Chef Matt Golinski on why meal planning makes all the difference
A•kin spoke to Matt about getting organised in the kitchen and making the most of ingredients.
Using models of the brain's neural adaptability to develop smarter AI
A•kin's chief research officer explores how AI could model the flexibility of the human brain.
The Importance of Being (L)earnest
How can we draw inspiration from how children learn to speak to make artificial intelligence and machine learning better?
