Sentences with phrase «robotics researchers»

They hope other robotics researchers might give it a try and take it in new directions of their own.
MIT Technology Review divulged that a team of robotics researchers from several European universities, RoboHow, are trying to impart knowledge to robots about cooking, among the other necessary things.
That included more than 40 robotics researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 and then in August 2016, the self - driving truck company Otto.
«Orbital debris is a serious risk to spacecraft, including the International Space Station,» said Aaron Parness, a JPL robotics researcher who is the principal investigator for the grippers.
Last September Altmann and ethicist Robert Sparrow from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, traveled to the home of Sheffield University robotics researcher Noel Sharkey in the U.K. (Asaro attended electronically.)
The insight into fly flight will help robotics researchers as well, says Gilbert.
QUT robotics researchers have developed new technology to equip underground mining vehicles to navigate autonomously through dust, camera blur and bad lighting.
Even better, my robot will be able to improve in that regard, as in everything it does, by tapping into a networked database of the experience of other robots — a database that's already under construction as part of the RoboEarth collaboration of robotics researchers around the world.
«One of the final frontiers of robotics is getting robots to understand the complex structure of the home environment so they can perform useful tasks,» says robotics researcher Siddhartha Srinivasa, who founded and runs the Carnegie Mellon lab that birthed HERB.
Ride - sharing company Uber, for one, has been on a hiring spree for robotics researchers.
Kuffner is leading one of six teams of robotics researchers to teach a four - legged robot called LittleDog (built by Boston Dynamics) how to walk over unpredictable terrain.
asks Sanjiv Singh, a Carnegie Mellon University robotics researcher and CEO of Near Earth Autonomy, a start - up developing intelligent flight systems.
A handful of other robotics researchers — including those at Japan's Kyoto Institute of Technology — have over the past decade been developing quadruped robots, but none appear to have BigDog's high levels of adaptability, balance and perseverance nor LittleDog's intelligence and awareness.
And Uber also operates an autonomous test fleet in Pittsburgh, where it lured top computer - vision and robotics researchers from Carnegie Mellon to help it transform car services from flex work to automation.
«I'm sure there are lots of manufacturers in China who are focused on crushing the U.S.,» said Matt Beane, a robotics researcher and fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
According to Rodney Brooks, a robotics researcher at MIT, «We, all of....
«In general, robotics researchers are interested in reproducing these human skills in their robots.»
Through the 1970s and 1980s, the computers readily available to robotics researchers were capable of executing about one million instructions per second (MIPS).
Chris Atkeson, a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says that such bespoke control systems require expertise to design.
«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute, one of six teams of robotics researchers (along with the Florida University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped robot platform, built for them by Boston Dynamics.
«Research has shown that if you have a robot that has many human - like features, then people might actually react negatively towards it,» agrees Kerstin Dautenhahn, a robotics researcher at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, who calls Jules» copycat routine «very impressive».
Hod Lipson, a robotics researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, says much more is possible.
Medical students perform better in real - life emergencies if they trained with a simulator that appears and behaves like a real person, said Karl MacDorman, a robotics researcher at Indiana University.
Eager to break the so - called 10 - hour barrier, Fumihide Tanaka, a robotics researcher at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and colleagues tested the Sony QRIO, a state - of - the - art humanoid robot that can recognize faces and respond to touch.
Zarrouk notes that robotics researchers have been attempted to develop a wave movement for over 90 years, and is proud that his team has accomplished this elusive goal with an elegantly simple design.
The robotics researcher who has fallen in love with his football - playing robot?
UPDATE: As of 15 January 2016, a total of 3,037 artificial intelligence and robotics researchers had signed the open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons as well as more than 17,000 other endorsers.
That was also the message delivered by 2,587 artificial intelligence and robotics researchers and more than 15,000 other endorsers in an open letter issued last week, which endorses the call to prohibit weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention.
Jul. 28: More than 1,000 artificial intelligence and robotics researchers and 15,000 other endorsers sign an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.
The 2015 letter has been signed by over 20,000 people to date, including over 3,100 AI / robotics researchers.
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