Not exact matches
The
company's new Toyota Research Institute - Advanced Development will be headed by James Kuffner,
who used to run Google's
robotics program, and aims to hire 1,000 people.
In September, Peter Rander, an engineering lead
who specializes in the commercialization of
robotics, also left the
company.
«We are excited by small experiments and other
companies who have
robotic engineers on staff,» he added.
Stern,
who is also the former head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the principal investigator of the New Horizons
robotic mission now en route to Pluto, said he believed tourists and commercial businesses (such as mining
companies) would also be potential customers.
Katherine Terracciano did her senior capstone project on
robotic navigation at Olin College and was hired by the
company who sponsored her project, Parietal Systems Inc..
«Asimov's laws are about as relevant to
robotics as leeches are to modern medicine,» says Steve Grand,
who founded the UK
company Cyberlife Research and is working on developing artificial intelligence through learning.
The film follows Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young coder at the world's largest tech
company who's invited by his boss, Nathan (Oscar Isaac), to participate in the grandest experiment in human history, involving a
robotic girl named Ava (Alicia Vikander), the world's first sentient AI.
When they are tasked to find out
who is killing key scientists working for the top
robotic company in town (and the ones
who created the Major), a can of worms is opened up for the Major when she starts to uncover details to her mysterious past.
Upon returning home, Downey perfects the
robotic flying suit, but when he announces that his
company is getting out of the weapons business he makes himself an inviting target to rivals, including enigmatic father figure Jeff Bridges,
who looks disconcertingly like Winter Kills co-star Sterling Hayden with his shaved head and mad - prophet beard.
Magic Leap is run and was founded by Rony Abovitz,
who previously founded the medical
robotics company Mako Surgical, which was sold for $ 1.65 billion last year.