PhD Thesis Defense
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Sensing, Measuring, and Modeling Social Signals in Nonverbal Communication

GHC 4405

Abstract: Humans convey their thoughts, emotions, and intentions through a concert of social displays: voice, facial expressions, hand gestures, and body posture, collectively referred to as social signals. Despite advances in machine perception, machines are unable to discern the subtle and momentary nuances that carry so much of the information and context of human communication. [...]

RI Seminar
Dave Rollinson
Co-Founder
HEBI Robotics

Building a Force-Controlled Actuator (Company)

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: In 2014, I was lucky enough to be one of 5 people to start HEBI Robotics, with the dream of eventually making the task of building custom robots as easy as building with Lego.  A few years later we are now 10 people, and our first product, a series of modular force-controlled actuators, is [...]

RI Seminar
Shaojie Shen
Assistant Professor
Director, HKUST-DJI Joint Innovation Lab, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Minimalist Visual Perception and Navigation for Consumer Drones

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: Consumer drone developers often face the challenge of achieving safe autonomous navigation under very tight size, weight, power, and cost constraints. In this talk, I will present our recent results towards a minimalist, but complete perception and navigation solution utilizing only a low-cost monocular visual-inertial sensor suite. I will start with an introduction of [...]

Faculty Events

RI Faculty Social

Tazza D'Oro, 3rd floor, Gates and Hillman Centers

All Robotics Institute faculty are invited to attend this informal team-building business/social event. Beverages and snacks will be provided.

RI Seminar
Consulting Professor
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Social Perception for Machines

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Abstract: Despite decades of progress, machines remain intelligent tools rather than collaborative partners in individual human enterprise. A key reason is that machine perception of inter-personal communication is largely unsolved and a computationally accessible representation of such behavior remains elusive. In this talk, I will describe our research arc over the past decade at CMU [...]