Artur was my office-mate while I was a grad student at MIT.
He has the highest ability to concentrate of any
person I know.
After years of working in parallel we actually did some
research together on recognizing noisy objects by relating
periodic visual motion with periodic sounds.
(more information)
- Paul Fitzpatrick and Artur Arsenio. Feel the beat:
using cross-modal rhythm to integrate perception of
objects, others, and self. Accepted for the Fourth
International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Genoa, August, 2004 (pdf, rough
html)
- Artur Arsenio and Paul Fitzpatrick.
Exploiting cross-modal rhythm for robot perception of objects.
Accepted for publication at the 2nd International
Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics,
and Autonomous Systems, Singapore, December 15 - 18, 2003.
(pdf, rough html)
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I worked with Giorgio while he was visiting at MIT. We implemented a
simple form of affordance exploration/exploitation on the humanoid
robot Cog. Or in other words we got a robot to poke things -- he had
his reasons and I
had mine and it all worked out.
Giorgio is a super cool guy, and it was a privilege to work with
him. Giorgio and I (along with Eduardo
and Lijin) were part of the super-secret (d'oh!) TEA CONSPIRACY to
overthrow the AI Lab from within.
Success! (well, sort of)...
This work started with a joke and ended up being a really fun project
on using shoes as a vision platform (
When I started at the MIT AI lab as a grad student, I spent a year or
two working on the infant-like robot Kismet with Cynthia Breazeal. It
was a great start to working with robots. Cynthia eventually defected to
the MIT 
Eduardo is the ring-leader of the world famous yet completely secret
TEA CONSPIRACY, which involves a lot of coffee drinking for some
reason. Eduardo is the guy in the picture that everyone else is
staring at in bemusement - this is trademark Eduardo. We are working
together on building a really smart active vision system, tightly
integrated with robot manipulation.