Sentences with phrase «many roboticists»

Brooks, perhaps the most acclaimed roboticist alive, had co-founded iRobot, maker of the hugely successful Roomba vacuuming robot.

That, in a sense, is what all roboticists do.

Famed roboticist Rodney Brooks is back with a breakthrough invention that could revitalize American manufacturing and automate millions of jobs.

The company seeks to get around this problem with its autonomous vehicle lab in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, staffed by former roboticists for Carnegie Mellon University.

Uber raided Carnegie Mellon University for its best roboticists, spent $ 670 million to buy autonomous truck company Otto, and, last August, proudly started picking up Pittsburgh passengers in robot - driven cars.

But those same people, in recent months, have begun asking why, nearly a decade after hiring top roboticists to build its project, Google has not delivered something to market.

And John Bares, a CMU roboticist who was once the director of and an instrumental part of the ATG, has been demoted to the head of test operations.

But if researchers and roboticists are serious about promoting AI safety, it's the boring stuff that requires attention, because it's so inevitable.

The roboticist's departure is significant.

X still employs many gifted roboticists, designers and engineers.

January 16: Young roboticists build and program a LEGO alligator with help from Einstein's Workshop at A is for Atrium (Watertown)

The former roboticist for NASA is funny, clever and has a knack for diving deep into geeky detail without losing those of us who never took an AP class.

MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has created a macroscale prototype for such devices.

«Food printers are not meant to replace conventional cooking — they won't solve all of our nutritional needs, nor cook everything we should eat,» says Lipson, a pioneering roboticist who works in the areas of artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing at Columbia Engineering.

Noel Sharkey, a roboticist at the University of Sheffield, UK, who has criticised the use of autonomous weapons, fears that miniaturisation will lead to an escalation in use and pave the way for their global proliferation.

It's bold and out of keeping with anything I've ever seen to attach two arms to a human,» says Dave Barrett, a roboticist and mechanical engineer at Olin College in Needham, Massachusetts.

But the roboticists behind such ventures need a serious reality check.

Roboticists seeking inspiration from nature have built mechanical analogues of dogs, fish, lobsters, and cockroaches.

«By reading a label on a closed door you can sometimes get a good idea of what can be found behind it,» says Posner, a roboticist at the University of Oxford.

The challenge facing roboticists is to take general - purpose computers and program them to match the largely special - purpose human brain, with its ultraoptimized perceptual inheritance and other peculiar evolutionary traits.

Their discomfort demonstrates what the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori referred to in 1970 as the «uncanny valley»: Our affinity toward robots and animations increases as they physically appear more humanlike, except for a large dip where they are almost but not quite there.

Developed by Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hagen Schempf, the Explorer - II features a remote - controlled fish - eye camera that allows above - ground operators to see what the machine does; drive - train motors that give operators unprecedented control over the pig's direction (most pigs still move passively according to natural gas flow); and a lightweight electromagnetic coil that detects changes in magnetized pipe walls without weighing the robot down, enabling it to inspect about two miles of pipe a day.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

Companion robots can't just do their jobs — they should be as charming as our favourite cartoon characters, says special effects roboticist Derek Scherer

For Leonard, a roboticist at MIT, riding in a car outfitted with Google's self - driving technology reminded him of another iconic moment in transportation: when the Wright brothers ushered in the age of air travel 111 years ago.

And their flexible, intelligent arms are the envy of roboticists and artificial intelligence engineers worldwide.But these animals, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, can teach us even more about security in the 21st century than camo and communications, Rafe Sagarin argues in his new book Learning from the Octopus: How secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters and disease (Basic Books, April 2012).

«With at least 50 more years of nuclear cleanup to be performed, the Robotics Institute could serve as a major pipeline of roboticists for DOE's next several workforce generations,» he added.

Evolutionary roboticist Inman Harvey of the University of Sussex, U.K., praises the team's artificial evolution approach.

Now, a team of roboticists has managed to emulate the cooperation strategy of leafcutter ants with computer simulations of small, four - wheeled robots.

Drawing inspiration from the leafcutters, Eliseo Ferrante, a roboticist at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and colleagues designed robots whose objective was to gather cylindrical blocks — the analog of leaves — at the top of a ramp and return them to a «nest» area at the bottom.

The roboticists, who use robots both operating autonomously and under human remote control, have come to some startling conclusions.

Given that crude exoskeletons as well as thought - controlled drones and prosthetic limbs already exist, Scientific American asked neuroscientist and roboticist Charles Higgins of the University of Arizona whether the kind of machine - enhanced human abilities in Elysium are likely anytime soon.

As Derrickson explained at a panel discussion on his film at the California Institute of Technology — where he was joined by Keanu Reeves, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory roboticist Joel Burdick — Shostak redacted some meaningless mumbo jumbo in the description of the spaceship's approach to Earth and replaced it with «The object was not following a gravitational free - fall trajectory; as such its path was recalculated.»

Once it was clear that more capable machines were needed, TEPCO and the government contacted roboticists at Chiba Institute of Technology and Tohoku University.

1989: Genghis The most famous of MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks's insect bots, Genghis had six legs, compound eyes, and six motion sensors tuned to the infrared band emitted by warm bodies.

Roboticists, he says, need to develop emergency robotic equipment that can be deployed immediately without the need for additional training or adaptation.

Such is the sway of science fiction like the Terminator series that some roboticists are studying how fictional depictions of robots influence opinions of the real thing to help improve their designs.

A team of roboticists has developed software that allows a modular robot to adapt when one part stops working.

Roboticists are making halting progress in developing machines for specific tasks, such as decontaminating and removing melted nuclear fuel masses, but they know that their creations need to be adaptable.

The struggles of Japanese roboticists came despite a national program in the 1980s to develop robotics for nuclear power plants.

Roboticists hoping to make robots easier to get along with are studying Roomba users to pick up tips.

Such devices have shown some promise for search - and - rescue operations, but Howie Choset, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, is taking them to a more intimate location: straight to the human heart.

Petersen and Werfel are not the only roboticists working on swarm technology.

Aerial robots have previously taken inspiration from insects and birds, but bats are a tougher challenge for roboticists because of their complicated skeletons and irregular flight patterns.

And at Heriot - Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, roboticists are working on a swarm of underwater robots which they hope will one day be able to repair damaged coral reefs.

As a graduate student, roboticist Robert Wood became fascinated with the idea of developing a life - size, flying bee machine.

Even though cameras can capture more data about a scene than the human eye, roboticists are at a loss as to how to stitch all that information together to build a cohesive picture of the world.

The work by roboticist Hod Lipson at Cornell University and his colleagues suggests 3 - D printing might soon be mature enough to let people manufacture complete devices on demand.

«That is a beautiful accomplishment,» says Hod Lipson, a roboticist at Cornell University who was not involved with the work.

Howie Choset, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, thought he had the perfect solution.