Sentences with phrase «of roboticists»

With phase two testing wrapped up, six teams of roboticists are focused on improving LittleDog's speed and agility

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

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

«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.

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).

The resulting book, «The Human Age,» is a splendidly prismatic tour of humans» techno - biological environmental impacts and tinkering, taking readers from an encounter with the Toronto Zoo's iPad - wielding orangutans («ginger - haired tree dancers,» in Ackerman's parlance) to the sterile drawers of DNA from vanishing wildlife at the University of Nottingham's Frozen Ark project back to the Creative Machines Lab of roboticist Hod Lipson in her home town.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Roboticists have long dreamed of making robotic collectives that could rival natural ones in number and function.

Roboticists Dario Floreano, Sara Mitri, and Stéphane Magnenat at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne collaborated with biologist Laurent Keller from the University of Lausanne.

Another insect - inspired robot is taking shape at Harvard University, where roboticist Robert Wood is building on his 2007 development of a life - size mechanical fly to create a colony of RoboBees.

Such a maneuverable machine could one day soar up the towering structures of a construction site, flying in and out of steel beams to help keep track of a building's progress, study coauthor Seth Hutchinson, a roboticist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, said in a news briefing January 31.

Ronald Arkin, a Georgia Institute of Technology roboticist, notes a dramatic drop in costs of building robots for his research: Making a bot now costs around $ 1,000 per unit, rather than $ 30,000.

But engineers and roboticists are now «proactively looking toward nature for solutions to specific engineering issues,» says Jollbot's designer, Rhodri Armour, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in England.

Schaft was spun off by two roboticists originally at the University of Tokyo, Yuto Nakanishi and Junichi Urata.

But roboticists worry that deep learning can't give machines the other visual abilities needed to make sense of the world — they need to understand the 3D nature of the objects and learn new ones quickly on the fly — so researchers are already looking beyond deep learning for the next big advance.

«I believe that humans will have individualized relationships with robots, but I would not go so far as to propose that they will supplant human relationships,» says Rod Grupen, a roboticist who works on human - robot interaction and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The prototype pictured, dubbed OmniTread, was built over the past few years by roboticist Johann Borenstein of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his colleagues.

Roboticists have created all sorts of fancy machines that can do all sorts of impressive things,

Bongard, a roboticist at the University of Vermont, thinks the answer could be yes, and adds that we might respond in kind.

In the Sept. 23 issue of PLOS ONE, a team of computer scientists, roboticists and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: when babies smile, they do so with a purpose — to make the person they interact with smile in return.

So roboticists are turning to people who have already solved many of these problems — actors, animators and dancers.

Cornell University roboticist Hod Lipson and his Ph.D. student Michael Schmidt developed their system to analyze data from the kinds of mechanics experiments that college students encounter in introductory physics courses: observing the motion of a swinging pendulum or of two weights bouncing on connected springs, for instance.

The project involved a multidisciplinary team of physicists, biologists and roboticists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Clemson University, Carnegie Mellon University and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS).

«Orbital robotics and AI techniques in general can enable future spacecraft to repair satellites, remove space junk, extract resources from asteroids and comets, and so on,» said study co-author Yang Gao, a space roboticist at the University of Surrey in England.

«They managed to overcome a couple of different challenges that roboticists have been working on for a while.»

Now one of the biggest video game companies around is working with roboticists and engineers to make James an amazing new limb inspired by one of his favorite series, and one of the greatest game franchises of all time.

It's a particularly shocking turn of events for Molly, who had unsuccessfully tried to conceive for years with her current roboticist husband, John (Goran Visnjic), and still mourns the death of her first son, Marcus.