Seminar
Nicholas Melchior
The Robotics Institute

Active Learning of Embedded Region-based Trajectories

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 3002Abstract: The use of robots in industry, domestic applications, and even space exploration is no longer the realm of science fiction. As robots become commonplace tools in diverse applications, though, human operators must be able to instruct the robots in how they are to complete the tasks assigned to them. [...]

RI Seminar
Katsu Yamane
Disney Research Pittsburgh

Towards Robots that Move and Interact Like Humans

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Katsu Yamane joined Disney Research, Pittsburgh as a Senior Research Scientist in October 2008. His research interests are in humanoid robot control, human motion analysis and simulation, and character animation synthesis. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999 and 2002 respectively. Before moving [...]