RI 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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Self-Reflection and Self-Fabrication in robotic systems
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Computational Synthesis group, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]
University of British Columbia
Extracting and identifying communicative events from multimodal behavior
Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and physics from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1974, a certificate in ethnographic film making in 1976, and an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1978. From 1982-1987 he was an NIH pre-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories (Connecticut) investigating "the organization and [...]
Autonomy and Cooperation for Micro Air Vehicles
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Randal W. Beard received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1993, the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. [...]