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Achieving robust mobility on natural and deformable terrains is pivotal for robots to operate effectively in real-world scenarios. Despite remarkable progress in robotics hardware and software,…
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Feifei Qian Date
January 24th, 2024
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Research at the Center for Robotics and Biosystems at Northwestern University includes bio-inspiration, neuromechanics, human-machine systems, and swarm robotics, among other topics. In this talk I…
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Kevin Lynch Date
January 10th, 2024
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For all the promise of big-data machine learning, what will happen when robots deploy to our homes and workplaces and inevitably encounter new objects, new tasks, and new environments? If a solution…
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Michael Posa Date
November 15th, 2023
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Last semester, our panel discussed finding faculty positions in robotics.This semester, we continue that discussion and take a broader look atcareer options with a particular focus on academia vs…
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Tom Collins, Sam Coogan, Frank Dellaert, Anirban Mazumdar, Anup Parikh, Aaron Young Date
February 17th, 2021
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Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. A first step towards this goal is…
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Jan Peters Date
November 18th, 2020
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Reinforcement learning is getting a lot of attention lately. People are excited about its potential to solve complex problems in areas such as robotics and automated driving, where traditional…
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Craig Buhr Date
November 4th, 2020
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Robots manipulate with super-human speed and dexterity on factory floors, but they fail even under moderate amounts of clutter or uncertainty. However, human teleoperators perform remarkable acts of…
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Siddhartha Srinivasa Date
January 31st, 2018
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Feeding a world population of 9 billion people by 2050 amidst increasing climate variability is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. The genomics revolution provides unprecedented power to…
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Changying "Charlie" Li Date
October 25th, 2017
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Many stochastic problems of interest in engineering and science involve random, rigid-body motions. In this talk, a variety of stochastic phenomena that evolve on the group of rigid-body motions will…
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Gregory Chirikjian Date
April 20th, 2017
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Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) can be used to artificially activate paralyzed lower limb muscles to restore walking and standing function in persons with neurological disorders. Despite its…
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Nitin Sharma Date
March 8th, 2017
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A first-person video records not only what is out in the environment but also what is in our head (intention and attention) at the time via social and physical interactions. It is invisible but it…
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Hyun Soo Park Date
February 1st, 2017
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Biological systems are able to move with great elegance, agility, and efficiency in a wide range of environments. Endowing machines with similar capabilities requires designing controllers that can…
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Koushil Sreenath Date
October 26th, 2016
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Given a stream of multimodal sensory data, an autonomous robot must continuously refine its understanding of itself and its environment as it makes decisions on how to act to achieve a goal. These…
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Byron Boots Date
October 5th, 2016
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Recent progress in visual recognition goes hand-in-hand with the supervised learning and large-scale training data. While the number of existing images and videos is huge, their detailed annotation…
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Ivan Laptev Date
September 30th, 2016
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The development of algorithms to quickly compute collision-free paths for high dimensional systems was a major achievement in the field of motion planning in the 2000s. Despite this progress, recent…
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Kris Hauser Date
September 28th, 2016
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To interact and collaborate with people in a natural way, robots must be able to recognize objects in their environments, accurately track the actions of humans, and estimate their goals and…
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Dieter Fox Date
September 21st, 2016
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