We are excited to announce that the UCL Condita team composed of UCL students including several PhD students of the Web Intelligence Group has been selected as one of the ten teams worldwide to compete in the Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge. This is a year-long competition and the first conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal (voice and vision) customer experiences.
More info in the UCL news release: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/civil-environmental-geomatic-engineering/news/2021/aug/ucl-condita-team-selected-2021-alexa-prize-taskbot-challenge
Amazon’s official announcement: https://www.amazon.science/academic-engagements/ten-university-teams-selected-to-participate-in-alexa-prize-taskbot-challenge