RI Seminar
Human-Centered Methods for Designing Robotic Products
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Bilge Mutlu is an assistant professor of computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute in 2009. His background combines training in interaction design, human-computer interaction, and robotics with industry experience in product design and development. [...]
Walk, Bound, Gallop, Climb
Event Location: Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Gates Hillman CenterBio: Marc Raibert is CTO and founder of Boston Dynamics, a company that develops some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots, such as BigDog, Atlas, Cheetah, SandFlea and the AlphaDog. These robots are inspired by the remarkable ability of animals to move with agility, mobility, speed and [...]
Consumer Robotics: Story and Lessons
Event Location: Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Gates and Hillman CentersBio: As an engineer and researcher with experience in building diverse robotic systems — from consumer products to off-road autonomous vehicles and bomb-disposal robots — Boris is making it his life’s work to create products that people would not expect to be possible. He earned a B.S., [...]
Toward Autonomous Rotorcraft
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Sebastian Scherer is a Systems Scientist at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research focuses on enabling autonomy for unmanned rotorcraft to operate at low altitude in cluttered environments. He and His team have shown the fastest and most tested obstacle avoidance on an Yamaha RMax (2006), [...]
Computer Vision for Movie Making and Infographics
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Chris Bregler is a Professor of Computer Science at NYU and is also working with Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group and with Industrial Light & Magic on new vision based tracking systems. Prior to NYU he was on the faculty at Stanford University and worked for several companies including Hewlett Packard, Interval, [...]
Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Over the last 30 years, Michael has worked at companies that made graphics hardware, computer-based instrumentation, and rendering software, been the GDI lead for the first couple of versions of Windows NT, worked with John Carmack on Quake, worked on Xbox and Xbox 360, written or co-written at least four software [...]
Why Virtual Reality Isn’t the Next Big Platform
Event Location: GHC 6115Bio: Dov Katz is leading Oculus VR's computer vision R&D. He is passionate about human and computer perception. His research interest include computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous manipulation. At Oculus, he developed a high precision - low latency optical position tracking system. He is currently engaged in several projects that will [...]
From Shape-from-shading through e-Heritage
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He received a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI Lab for two years, Electrotechnical Lab, Japan for five years, and Carnegie Mellon University for ten [...]
From Compliant Mechanisms to Hyper-Elastic Robots
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Michael Yu Wang is a Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS in 2014, he served on the engineering faculty at University of Maryland and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has numerous professional honors–National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993; Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from [...]