Sentences with word «roboticist»

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

«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.

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

«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.

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.

It includes key spokespersons such as roboticist Noel Sharkey.

Today, the «uncanny valley» phenomenon remains almost as mysterious as when Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori first coined the term in 1970.

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.

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.

In a recent article in Science, Harvard roboticists demonstrate that their flying microrobots, nicknamed the RoboBees, can now perch during flight to save energy - like bats, birds or butterflies.

The title «Valley» is a reference to Oursler's fascination with roboticist Masahiro Mori's 1970s theory, which conflates Jenstch's and Freud's theories of the «Uncanny» with the development of human - like robots.

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.

That's where we as roboticists may be leaving ourselves vulnerable to the lawyers, whereas in the commercial world you learn very much how to make things safe and what is important.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots delegation to the 2015 CCW meeting includes roboticists, scientists, academics, lawyers, military veterans, and industry representatives from countries including Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, UK, and US.

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.

The researchers say their findings could help roboticists better integrate biologically inspired odor detection systems into their robots.

A new project created by roboticists in South Korea adds a slightly different twist to the smart speaker concept, however, through a constantly listening robot that is designed to help us stave off loneliness.

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.

There is a case, put forward by people such as US roboticist Ronald Arkin, that robots might make more dispassionate assessments than grieving or revenge - seeking soldiers.

That is where Georgia Tech roboticist Ronald Arkin comes in.

Harvard roboticists demonstrate that their flying microrobots, nicknamed the RoboBees, can now perch during flight to save energy - like bats, birds or butterflies.

The first session focuses on technical challenges opens with a debate between roboticists Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), and Professor Ron Arkin from Georgia Tech.

Like many roboticists, he is interested in the art of navigating across different terrains, from sand to rock to grass to swamp.

For years roboticists have been looking into using softer materials for parts rather than the usual metal and plastic — sometimes even building entirely soft robots.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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

The model's antics (see video), described in a paper accepted for publication in Physical Review E, may act as an inspiration to roboticists whose state - of - the - art walkers require tens of kilowatts to move, or to researchers designing prosthetic limbs or hoping to understand human and animal locomotion.

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

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.»

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

Now the success of a group of rebel roboticists suggests that, by copying our own image, humanoid robots and their creators are destined to fail.

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.

He and roboticists Markus Waibel and Dario Floreano, both from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, started with real - life robots that are just a couple of centimeters high.

Most of the institute's 18 core faculty members split their time between other academic departments and the Wyss, where they share multidisciplinary lab space that forces roboticists and biologists, chemists and computer scientists, clinicians and engineers to put their heads together and see their projects through.

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.

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.

Jules is an animatronic head produced by US roboticist David Hanson, who builds uniquely expressive, disembodied heads with flexible rubber skin that is moved by 34 servo motors.