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Waiter please! The capable service robots Amy and Alex

In modern society we can find service robots deployed in various roles. The CASSIOPEIA research project has investigated the suitability of two service robots, Amy and Alex. The two robots have worked at the restaurant Prakticum, delivering food, desserts and appetisers. They have proven themselves to be quite capable, despite struggling to keep soup in a bowl. This blog post gives you the first reflective insights into our robot deployment study which we have been working on together with Prakticum.

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Fast Expert Teams as a method for addressing the complex issue of retaining international students in Finland

Attracting and retaining international students and graduates is a national priority in Finland. It is a complex issue requiring collaboration between multiple stakeholders nationally and regionally. The Fast Expert Teams (FET) method has been used for this purpose and this blog post expresses the results of one of the sub-teams working on this issue in the beginning of 2023. We will begin by describing the problem we aimed to solve and then explain the FET process and how we used it in this context. We then present the key characteristics, and discuss the outcomes, of our sub-team’s process.

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Not All Who Wander Are Lost

This famous line written by J.R.R. Tolkien, which appears in the first novel in the Lord of The Ring series, has been a way of encapsulating the idea of surrendering to your wanderlust. However, it can be argued that the true meaning of the line is that all who wander without an aim are lost.

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