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While the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in computer games has shown impressive engineering feat, unlike the computer games, safety-critical settings such as unmanned vehicles must thrash…
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Hamidreza Modares Date
April 14th, 2021
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The growth of scale and complexity of interactions between humans and robots highlights the need for new computational methods to automatically evaluate novel algorithms and applications. Exploring…
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Stefanos Nikolaidis Date
March 31st, 2021
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The robotics industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The industry is rapidly changing as robotics have moved from the manufacturing floor into almost every segment of our…
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Stephen Balakirsky, Jon Battles, Jeff Burnstein, Mark Joppru Date
March 17th, 2021
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The field of robotics has made incredible progress over the past several decades. Indeed, we have built impressive robots capable of performing complex and intricate tasks in a variety of domains.…
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Harish Ravichandar Date
October 14th, 2020
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a space opera movie captured the imaginations of roboticists, researchers, and writers from around the world. Over the last 43 years, Star Wars has had an…
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Matthew Gombolay, Ellen Mazumdar, Lisa Yaszek, Aaron Young Date
September 30th, 2020
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Energetic cost of locomotion is often the gold standard measures used in autonomous robotic walking for efficiency as well as humans augmented with lower limb wearable robotics. The panel will…
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Anirban Mazumdar, Elliott Rouse, Gregory Sawicki, Aaron Young, Ye Zhao Date
September 16th, 2020
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Our work addresses the planning, control, and mapping issues for autonomous robot teams that operate in challenging, partially observable, dynamic environments with limited field-of-view sensors. In…
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Jonathan How Date
January 22nd, 2020
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Field robotics refers to the deployment of robots and autonomous systems in unstructured or dynamic environments across air, land, sea, and space. Robust sensing and perception can enable these…
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Katherine Skinner Date
January 8th, 2020
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Dynamic, tactical, remote operations in which unmanned systems must manage multiple, changing objectives in uncertain, evolving and potentially adversarial environments, without the benefit of prior…
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Stephen Buerger Date
November 13th, 2019
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Minimally invasive techniques have revolutionized many areas of surgery, but heart surgery has seen limited progress. We are working to combine ultrasound imaging and robotic manipulation to enable…
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Robert Howe Date
October 9th, 2019
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Robotic technologies have greatly advanced in recent years, enabling the creation of new wearable sensors and motorized devices. Robotic exoskeletons for human performance augmentation or…
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Daniel Ferris Date
September 25th, 2019
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Multi-fingered hands offer autonomous robots increased dexterity, versatility, and stability over simple two-fingered grippers. Naturally, this increased ability comes with increased complexity in…
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Tucker Hermans Date
September 11th, 2019
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Human centered robots provide embodiments whose purpose is to increase human productivity and comfort in complex non-structured environments. On one hand, operating in such environments demands new…
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Luis Sentis Date
August 28th, 2019
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Making use of visual display technology and human-robotic interfaces, many researchers have illustrated various opportunities to distort visual and physical realities. We have had success with…
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James L. Patton Date
April 24th, 2019
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Recent issues with the Boeing 737-MAX point to challenges in software engineering and the algorithms that the software must implement. However, the 737-MAX is a microcosm of several other problems…
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Cody Fleming Date
April 10th, 2019
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We, as robot engineers, have to think hard about our role in the design of robots and how it interacts with learning, both in “the factory” (that is, at engineering time) and in…
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Leslie Kaelbling Date
March 27th, 2019
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