Seminar
Robots at Work
Event Location: WEH 7500Bio: Dr. William L. "Red" Whittaker is the Fredkin Professor of Robotics, Director of the Field Robotics Center, and founder of the National Robotics Engineering Consortium, all at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the Chief Scientist of RedZone Robotics. He has an extensive record of successful developments of robots for craft, [...]
Robotic Grasping and Depth Perception: Learning 3D Models from a Single Image
Event Location: NSH 1507 Abstract: Learning algorithms to predict depth and infer 3-d models, given just a single still image. Applications included creating immersive 3-d experience from users' photos, improving performance of stereovision, creating large-scale models from a few images, robot navigation, etc. Learning algorithms to predict robotic grasps, even for objects of types never [...]
Autonomous Mobile Manipulation for the Motor Impair
Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Abstract: For millions of people on a daily basis, motor impairments diminish quality of life, reduce independence, and increase healthcare costs. Assistive robots that autonomously manipulate objects within everyday settings offer the potential to improve the lives of the elderly, injured, and disabled by augmenting their abilities with those of [...]
Roll, Crawl, Walk, Climb, and Jump: Robot Locomotion Inspired by Nature and Beyond
Event Location: NSH 1305 Abstract: Most mobile robots we see today utilize wheels or treads to move around. But why don't we see such locomotion mechanisms in nature? Or a better question we should ask is: why don't we use locomotion mechanisms used in nature for creating robots? Animals move in various ways; crawling, walking, [...]