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George Konidaris: Signal to Symbol (via Skills) | CMU RI Seminar
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “While recent years have seen dramatic progress in the development of affordable, general-purpose robot hardware, the capabilities of that hardware far exceed our a...
19 November 2018, by
John Payne
Oliver Kroemer: Learning Robot Manipulation Skills… | CMU RI Seminar
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “In the future, robots could be used to take care of the elderly, perform household chores, and assist in hazardous situations. However, such applications require r...
11 November 2018, by
John Payne
Hanumant Singh: Bipolar Robotics – Arctic to Antarctic, Fisheries in the middle | CMU RI Seminar
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “The Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland remain some of the least explored parts of the planet. This talk looks at efforts over the last decade to explore areas under-i...
04 November 2018, by
John Payne
Bertram F. Malle | What People See in a Robot: A New Look at Human-Like Appearance | CMU RI Seminar
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Abstract: A long-standing question in HRI is what effects a robot’s human-like appearance has on various psychological responses. A substantial literature has d...
15 October 2018, by
John Payne
Claire J. Tomlin: Safe Learning in Robotics | CMU RI Seminar
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “A great deal of research in recent years has focused on robot learning. In many applications, guarantees that specifications are satisfied throughout the learning...
13 October 2018, by
John Payne
Anat Levin: Light-Sensitive Displays | CMU RI Seminar
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Nobel prize winner M. G. Lippmann described his dream of an ideal display as a “window into the world.” “While the current most perfect photographic print o...
29 September 2018, by
John Payne
Michael Kaess: Factor Graphs for Robot Perception | CMU RI Seminar
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...
22 September 2018, by
John Payne
Matthew O’Toole: Imaging the World One Photon at a Time | CMU RI Seminar
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...
08 September 2018, by
John Payne
Vladlen Koltun: Learning to Drive | CMU RI Seminar
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...
28 April 2018, by
John Payne
Ruzena Bajcsy: Personalized model of kinematic and dynamic of physical activities | CMU RI Seminar
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...
22 April 2018, by
John Payne
Alex John London: From Automation to Autonomy and the Ubiquity of Moral Decision Making | CMU RI Seminar
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...
15 April 2018, by
John Payne
Next Generation Robots – Boston Dynamics, Asimo, Da Vinci, SoFi | ColdFusion
Link to video on YouTubeAdvanced biomimetic robots and battlebots....
09 April 2018, by
John Payne
Roberta L. Klatzky: Rendering Material Properties through Touch | CMU RI Seminar
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, ...
08 April 2018, by
John Payne
Ravi Balasubramanian: Robotics-Inspired Implantable Passive Mechanisms | CMU RI Seminar
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...
24 March 2018, by
John Payne
Naomi Ehrich Leonard: Bio-inspired dynamics for multi-agent decision-making | CMU RI Seminar
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...
04 March 2018, by
John Payne
Misha Kazhdan : Signal Processing – From Images to Surfaces | CMU RI Seminar
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....
24 February 2018, by
John Payne
Geoff Hollinger: Marine Robotics: Planning, Decision Making, and Learning | CMU RI Seminar
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...
17 February 2018, by
John Payne
Magnus Egerstedt: Long Duration Autonomy for Persistent Environmental Monitoring | CMU RI Seminar
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...
11 February 2018, by
John Payne
David Breen: Level Set Models for Computer Graphics | CMU RI Seminar
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 ...
28 January 2018, by
John Payne
Robots, Retraining And UBI: How To Solve The Coming Automation Crisis [Automation, Pt. 3] | AJ+
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...
26 January 2018, by
John Payne
A Tale Of Two Cities: How Smart Robots And AI Will Transform America [Automation, Pt. 2] | AJ+
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...
26 January 2018, by
John Payne
Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk | AJ+
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...
24 January 2018, by
John Payne
Greg Mori: Deep Structured Models for Human Activity | CMU RI Seminar
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...
20 January 2018, by
John Payne
What Will Robotics and Automation Mean for Food System Workers? | FoodTank
Link to article by Lisa Elaine Held on FoodTank website...
10 January 2018, by
John Payne
Alan R. Wagner: Exploring Human-Robot Trust during Emergencies | CMU RI Seminar
Link to video on YouTubeNo abstract was included with this video....
08 December 2017, by
John Payne
Deanna Gates: Optimizing ankle prostheses to improve walking in transtibial amputees | CMU RI Seminar
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...
19 November 2017, by
John Payne
Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work | Vox
Link to video on YouTube“For now, at least, we have better things to worry about.”...
13 November 2017, by
John Payne
Dmitry Berenson: What Matters for Deformable Object | CMU RI Seminar
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...
04 November 2017, by
John Payne
C. Karen Liu: Modeling Human Movements for Robotics | CMU RI Seminar
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...
28 October 2017, by
John Payne
James McBride: AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Vehicle Development at Ford Motor Company | CMU RI Seminar
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...
14 October 2017, by
John Payne
