Sentences with phrase «roboticist masahiro»

The campaign's principal spokespersons Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams, roboticist Professor Noel Sharkey, and Human Rights Watch arms director Steve Goose addressed the conference, while campaigners were present from the non-governmental organizations Action on Armed Violence, Amnesty International, Article 36, Human Rights Watch, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and PAX (formerly IKV Pax Christi).

Aug. 18: In the Guardian, roboticist Prof. Noel Sharkey warns against the development of fully autonomous robots that make their own decisions about lethality and calls for their urgent international regulation.

It includes key spokespersons Nobel Peace Laureate Ms. Jody Williams and roboticist Noel Sharkey.

It includes key spokespersons such as roboticist Noel Sharkey.

It includes key spokespersons Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and roboticist Noel Sharkey.

On reading this I went in search of the phrase «the best model of the world is itself», which turns out to be (among others, no doubt) MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks.

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.

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.

Both of Oursler's exhibitions expound roboticist Masahiro Mori's «uncanny valley» theory.

Ken Goldberg is an artist, roboticist and UC Berkeley Professor with appointments in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Electrical Engineering / Computer Science (EECS), Art Practice, the School of Information, and in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the UCSF Medical School.

Speculative fiction writers Neal Stephenson and Marge Piercy; new media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson; cyborg activist Neil Harbission; and AI researcher and roboticist Bruce Duncan belong to a long list of prescient thinkers who inspire me to consider deeply the now and future of digital networks and biotechnological systems.

Sci - fi author, roboticist and polymath Daniel H. Wilson is apparently obsessed with voice - controlled apparatus — this is a high - concept, voice - control - only game written by Wilson and programmed by the five - dude team at Mountain Machine.

In an attempt to break the decades - long stalemate, the American military turns to Miguel dos Santos — a brilliant Brazilian roboticist — ... But as Miguel reluctantly carries out his orders, it becomes clear that he has other plans for what remains of humanity.

In Eye Candy, popular indie author Ryan Schneider takes us to Los Angeles of 2047 where a roboticist famous for his books about artificially - intelligent beings finds himself on a blind date with a beautiful robopsychologist.

Ayanna Howard, a roboticist at Georgia Tech, was always interested in building robots.

Tony Stark is the Marvel Universe's top mechanic and roboticist.

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.

[Updated 11:28 a.m. Feb. 14: «It's a very impressive accomplishment,» said Hod Lipson, a roboticist at Cornell University, who was not involved in the study.

«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.

That is where Georgia Tech roboticist Ronald Arkin comes in.

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.

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

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.

«Please don't just strap a jigsaw to a Roomba — unless you're a roboticist.»

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

«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.

Such adaptable robots may be used for incision - free surgery, says Antoine Cully, a roboticist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study.

Greg Chirikjian, a roboticist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, agrees.

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.

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.

A roboticist recently joined the research team, which now hopes to design a robot that would fly inside the pyramid as well as other monuments.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.