Field Robotics Center Seminar
Robots Crossing Boundaries
Abstract: Over the last 50 years, autonomous robots have made the leap from being novel research contributions in university labs to becoming the fundamental technology upon which companies are built. While they traditionally have belonged to the engineering and computer science disciplines, robots have now crossed into other areas of study and research - making impacts in oceanography, geology, archaeology, biomechanics and biology. [...]
Using Robotics, Imaging and AI to Tackle Apple Fruit Production: Crop Harvest and Fire Blight Disease, The Two Major Bottlenecks for U.S. Apple Producers
Abstract Temperate tree fruit production is a significant agricultural sector in the United States, encompassing a variety of fruits like apples, pears, cherries, peaches and plums. The U.S. is the second-largest producer of apples in the world, after China. Annual U.S. production is 10 - 11 billion pounds of apple. However, apple production is complicated [...]
A retrospective, 40 Years of Field Robotics
Abstract: Chuck has been building and deploying robots in the field for the past 40 years. In this retrospective he will touch on the robots, people and experiences that have been part of the journey. From the early days in the 1980s with the Three Mile Island nuclear robots and the first outdoor autonomy robots [...]
From Lab to Launch
Bio: Nathan Michael is Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer and a former Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). At CMU, Nathan was the Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab, a research lab dedicated to improving the performance and reliability of artificially intelligent and autonomous systems that operate in [...]