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Michael Kaess: Factor Graphs for Robot Perception | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
22 Sep 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Factor graphs have become a popular tool for modeling robot perception problems. Not only can they model the bipartite relationship between sensor measurements and...
Matthew O’Toole: Imaging the World One Photon at a Time | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
08 Sep 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “The heart of a camera and one of the pillars for computer vision is the digital photodetector, a device that forms images by collecting billions of photons traveli...
Vladlen Koltun: Learning to Drive | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
28 Apr 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Why is our understanding of sensorimotor control behind our understanding of perception? I will talk about structural differences between perception and control, a...
Ruzena Bajcsy: Personalized model of kinematic and dynamic of physical activities | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
22 Apr 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbbreviated abstract: “By now it has become a cliché the statement that the population in industrial world is aging and hence the problem of physical agility is a serious he...
Alex John London: From Automation to Autonomy and the Ubiquity of Moral Decision Making | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
15 Apr 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “I argue that there is an important sense in which all decisions are moral decisions and I explore some implications of this insight (and its denial) for the desig...
Next Generation Robots – Boston Dynamics, Asimo, Da Vinci, SoFi | ColdFusion
John Payne
09 Apr 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAdvanced biomimetic robots and battlebots....
Roberta L. Klatzky: Rendering Material Properties through Touch | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
08 Apr 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Humans haptically perceive the material properties of objects, such as roughness and compliance, through signals from sensory receptors in skin, muscles, tendons, ...
Ravi Balasubramanian: Robotics-Inspired Implantable Passive Mechanisms | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
24 Mar 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Tendon-transfer surgeries are performed for a variety of conditions such as stroke, palsies, trauma, and congenital defects. The surgery involves re-routing a tend...
Naomi Ehrich Leonard: Bio-inspired dynamics for multi-agent decision-making | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
04 Mar 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “I will present distributed decision-making dynamics for multi-agent systems, motivated by studies of animal groups, such as house-hunting honeybees, and their extr...
Misha Kazhdan : Signal Processing – From Images to Surfaces | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
24 Feb 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Abstract: In this talk we will revisit some classical techniques from image processing and explore what is involved in translating them to the context of surfaces....
Geoff Hollinger: Marine Robotics: Planning, Decision Making, and Learning | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
17 Feb 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Underwater gliders, propeller-driven submersibles, and other marine robots are increasingly being tasked with gathering information (e.g., in environmental monitor...
Magnus Egerstedt: Long Duration Autonomy for Persistent Environmental Monitoring | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
11 Feb 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “By now, we have a fairly good understanding of how to design coordinated control strategies for making teams of mobile robots achieve geometric objectives in a dis...
David Breen: Level Set Models for Computer Graphics | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
28 Jan 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “A level set model is a deformable implicit model that has a regularly-sampled representation. It is defined as an iso-contour, i.e. a level set, of some implicit ...
Robots, Retraining And UBI: How To Solve The Coming Automation Crisis [Automation, Pt. 3] | AJ+
John Payne
26 Jan 2018
Link to video on YouTube“Rapid development of self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected to aggravate inequality, as wealth goes to those who own the robots. Technologi...
A Tale Of Two Cities: How Smart Robots And AI Will Transform America [Automation, Pt. 2] | AJ+
John Payne
26 Jan 2018
Link to video on YouTube“Automation is already reshaping cities, just as the manufacturing collapse hollowed out America's heartland. This is a tale of two cities, comparing the Rust Belt to Las Veg...
Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk | AJ+
John Payne
24 Jan 2018
Link to video on YouTube“Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this docume...
Greg Mori: Deep Structured Models for Human Activity | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
20 Jan 2018
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Visual recognition involves reasoning about structured relations at multiple levels of detail. For example, human behaviour analysis requires a comprehensive labe...
What Will Robotics and Automation Mean for Food System Workers? | FoodTank
John Payne
10 Jan 2018
Link to article by Lisa Elaine Held on FoodTank website...
Alan R. Wagner: Exploring Human-Robot Trust during Emergencies | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
08 Dec 2017
Link to video on YouTubeNo abstract was included with this video....
Deanna Gates: Optimizing ankle prostheses to improve walking in transtibial amputees | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
19 Nov 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “With a prosthetic device, people with a lower limb amputation can remain physically active, but most do not achieve medically recommended physical activity standar...
Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work | Vox
John Payne
13 Nov 2017
Link to video on YouTube“For now, at least, we have better things to worry about.”...
Dmitry Berenson: What Matters for Deformable Object | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
04 Nov 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Deformable objects such as cables and clothes are ubiquitous in factories, hospitals, and homes. While a great deal of work has investigated the manipulation of ri...
C. Karen Liu: Modeling Human Movements for Robotics | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
28 Oct 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Creating realistic virtual humans has traditionally been considered a research problem in Computer Animation primarily for entertainment applications. With the rec...
James McBride: AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Vehicle Development at Ford Motor Company | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
14 Oct 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “This presentation will highlight the history of autonomous vehicle development at Ford Motor Company and elsewhere within the industry, with an emphasis on discuss...
James McCann: On-Demand Machine Knitting for Everyone | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
07 Oct 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Abstract: Knitting machines are general-purpose fabrication devices that can robustly create intricate 3D surfaces from yarn by cleverly actuating thousands of mec...
This ostrich robot can run 12 mph | Tech Insider
John Payne
04 Oct 2017
Link to video on YouTubeThe Elliptical Runner is a two-legged robot created to mimic the movement of an ostrich. It can run up to 12mph....
Henny Admoni: Toward Natural Interactions With Assistive Robots | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
23 Sep 2017
Link to video on YouTube
Abstract: “Robots can help people live better lives by assisting them with the complex tasks involved in everyday activities. This is especially impactful for people wi...
David Held: Robots Learning to Understand Environmental Changes | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
16 Sep 2017
Link to video on YouTube
Abstract: “Robots today are typically confined to operate in relatively simple, controlled environments. One reason for these limitation is that current methods for rob...
Sven Koenig: Progress on Multi-Robot Path Finding | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
10 Sep 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Teams of robots often have to assign target locations among themselves and then plan collision-free paths to their target locations. Examples include autonomous ai...
Robots are better to work with when they’re bad at their jobs | Popular Mechanics
Alex Kirkpatrick
09 Aug 2017
The robots might be coming for our jobs, but right now most of them still can't navigate around a fountain. Today's robots make a lot of mistakes, but according to new research, we might not find that...
South Korea introduces world’s first ‘robot tax’ | The Telegraph
Alex Kirkpatrick
09 Aug 2017
South Korea has introduced what is being called the world's first tax on robots amid fears that machines will replace human workers, leading to mass unemployment.
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Researchers fool self driving cars with stickers on street signs | The Drive
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 Aug 2017
University of Washington researchers have found a very simple way to trick self-driving cars into misidentifying road signs.
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Toyota-Mazda deal could provide self-driving boost | Business Insider
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 Aug 2017
Toyota Motors is buying a 5% stake in Mazda and the firms will build a $1.6 billion factory in the US.
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New UK guidelines protect smart cars and their drivers from hackers | Digital Trends
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Aug 2017
Our cars are smarter than ever, but that also means they're more susceptible to hacking. Governments are looking for ways to prevent that.
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Robot exacts revenge on football coach | CNET
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Aug 2017
Baylor University's robotic tackling dummy loses a race against the human coach, but then gets the last laugh.
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US Army reportedly bans Chinese-made drone, citing ‘cyber vulnerabilities’ | CNBC
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Aug 2017
U.S. Army is banning service members from using Chinese-made DJI drones due to "increased awareness of cyber vulnerabilities," according to the publication Defense One.
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