Tag: AI

Where are the robots when you need them!

Posted on April 26, 2020April 26, 2020 by Andra Keay

Category:California Robotics News, COVID-19 Response

TaggedAI, Andra Keay, coronavirus, covid-19, Distillmyheart, Ken Goldberg, McCrafty, Michael Sayre, Missy Cummings, Rachel Sadd, Rex St John, Robin Murphy, robots

That’s a question we’re trying to answer in our weekly discussions about ‘COVID-19, robots and us’, but it was repeated with urgency by Rachel ‘McCrafty’ Sadd. Rachel has been building systems and automation for COVID mask making, as the founder of Project Mask Making and #distillmyheart projects in the SF Bay Area, an artist and […]

Posted on April 12, 2020April 13, 2020 by Andra Keay

Category:HRI2020

TaggedAI, Ayanna Howard, HRI Conference, hri2020, Human-Robot Interaction, robots, Trust

“Are we trusting AI too much?: Examining Human-Robot Interactions in the Real World” Intelligent systems, especially those with an embodied construct, are becoming pervasive in our society. From chatbots to rehabilitation robotics, from shopping agents to robot tutors, people are adopting these systems into their daily life activities. Alas, associated with this increased acceptance is […]

	October 2020
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			1	2 "Architecting the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Sampling and Caching System" - Matthew Robinson (JPL) "Architecting the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Sampling and Caching System" - Matthew Robinson (JPL) October 2, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html Architecting the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Sampling and Caching System - Matthew Robinson (JPL) Abstract: While the NASA Mars 2020 rover may not be considered state of the art in robotics technology, the sampling system is at the forefront of the state of practice for robotic sampling in extreme environments. I will begin this talk with an overview of the Mars 2020 rover mission and mission objectives with a focus on the sampling and caching system. Through the course of the discussion I will highlight many of the challenges faced by operating in an extreme environment, complicated further by design constraints due to limitations on power, weight, and computational processing, and how we addressed those challenges. Biography: Matthew L. Robinson is a senior member of the Robotic Systems Staff Group in the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he has been since 2001. He has more than 17 years of experience contributing to Mars surface missions. Recently Matt was the Deputy Manager in charge of development and delivery of the Sampling and Caching System for the NASA Mars 2020 rover Perseverance. Post launch he transitioned to Strategic Sampling Operations Lead Engineer responsible for ensuring the sampling and caching system is prepared for surface operations. Previously, Matt was the lead robotic arm systems engineer and robotic arm surface operations lead for the 2011 NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity for which he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal. Prior to his work on MSL, he contributed to the 2007 NASA Mars Phoenix Lander mission as the lead robotic arm flight software engineer, robotic arm engineer and surface operator. Matt has a B.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Stream at: https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html See more details SVR Board Meeting SVR Board Meeting October 2, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm See more details • •	3	4
5	6 Arm Dev Summit Arm Dev Summit October 6, 2020 - October 8, 2020 See more details Sunita Pokharel Sunita Pokharel October 6, 2020 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Event Space See more details Circuit Launch Tour Circuit Launch Tour October 6, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Dr Suite #200, Oakland, CA 94621, USA See more details "Society, robots and us - the conversations we need to have" "Society, robots and us - the conversations we need to have" October 6, 2020 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm https://societyrobotsandus.eventbrite.com See more details • • • •	7 Arm Dev Summit Arm Dev Summit October 6, 2020 - October 8, 2020 See more details Bots&Beer Silicon Valley Bots&Beer Silicon Valley October 7, 2020 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlcO6hpjsuGtNOz1KlRnc8KbLiieJYQbIC See more details • •	8 Arm Dev Summit Arm Dev Summit October 6, 2020 - October 8, 2020 See more details Laser Cutter SBU From $25 Laser Cutter SBU From $25 October 8, 2020 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Drive, Oakland, CA, USA See more details • •	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16 "Form, Function, and Robotic Superorganisms" - Kirstin Petersen (Cornell) "Form, Function, and Robotic Superorganisms" - Kirstin Petersen (Cornell) October 16, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html Form, Function, and Robotic Superorganisms - Kirstin Petersen (Cornell) Abstract: Natural swarms exhibit sophisticated colony level behaviors with remarkably scalable and error tolerant properties. Their evolutionary success stems from more than just intelligent individuals, it hinges on their morphology, their physical interactions, and the way they shape and leverage their environment. Mound-building termites, for instance, are believed to use their own body as a template for construction; the resulting dirt mound serves, among many things, to regulate volatile pheromone cues which in turn guide further construction and colony growth. Throughout this talk I will argue how we can leverage the same principles to achieve greater performance in robot collectives, through hardware and software co-development, and by integrating the environment into the design process. I will give examples of systems from our lab that exploit form, function, and the concept of robotic superorganisms, spanning collective robotic construction inspired by African mound-building termites, ongoing work towards slime-mold inspired soft robot collectives, and initial studies of bio-hybrid collectives of honey bees. Biography:Kirstin Petersen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Her lab, the Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab, is focused on design and coordination of large robot collectives able to achieve complex behaviors beyond the reach of an individual, and corresponding studies on how social insects do so in nature. Major research topics include swarm intelligence, embodied intelligence, and autonomous construction. Before arriving at Cornell, Petersen did a postdoc with the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. She completed a PhD in 2014 in computer science at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Kirstin completed her M.Sc. in modern artificial intelligence in 2008 and a B.Sc. in electro-technical engineering in 2005, both with the University of Southern Denmark. Her graduate work was featured in and on the cover of Science, she was elected among the top 25 women to know in robotics by Robohub in 2018, and was awarded the prestigious Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 2019. Stream at: https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html See more details Silicon Valley Robotics Awards Meeting Silicon Valley Robotics Awards Meeting October 16, 2020 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/430299814 See more details • •	17	18
19	20	21 Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) October 21, 2020 6:00 am - 12:00 am Event Space See more details Resume Database Link for Online Robotics Job Fair Resume Database Link for Online Robotics Job Fair October 21, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm https://zoom.us/meeting/register/upYvfuiqrT8uf4eVf9Q3hg83vhr92zfHiA, See more details SIG HBRobotics MenloPark SIG HBRobotics MenloPark October 21, 2020 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm See more details • • •	22 Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) October 22, 2020 6:00 am - 12:00 am Event Space See more details Silicon Valley Robotics Awards Meeting Silicon Valley Robotics Awards Meeting October 22, 2020 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/430299814 See more details Construction Robotics Forum Construction Robotics Forum October 22, 2020 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/construction-robotics-forum-oct-2020-tickets-122771477795 See more details • • •	23 Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) October 23, 2020 6:00 am - 12:00 am Event Space See more details •	24 IROS 2020 Online IROS 2020 Online October 24, 2020 - October 30, 2020 https://www.iros2020.org/ See more details Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) October 24, 2020 6:00 am - 12:00 am Event Space See more details • •	25 IROS 2020 Online IROS 2020 Online October 24, 2020 - October 30, 2020 https://www.iros2020.org/ See more details SVR Quarterly Report SVR Quarterly Report October 25, 2020 See more details Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) Circuit Launch Booking (Alex) October 25, 2020 6:00 am - 12:00 am Event Space See more details • • •
26 IROS 2020 Online IROS 2020 Online October 24, 2020 - October 30, 2020 https://www.iros2020.org/ See more details •	27 IROS 2020 Online IROS 2020 Online October 24, 2020 - October 30, 2020 https://www.iros2020.org/ See more details •	28 IROS 2020 Online IROS 2020 Online October 24, 2020 - October 30, 2020 https://www.iros2020.org/ See more details Homebrew Robotics Club Homebrew Robotics Club October 28, 2020 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm http://www.hbrobotics.org/ See more details • •	29 IROS 2020 Online IROS 2020 Online October 24, 2020 - October 30, 2020 https://www.iros2020.org/ See more details Orange Conference - Teleoperation Panel Orange Conference - Teleoperation Panel October 29, 2020 See more details • •	30 IROS 2020 Online IROS 2020 Online October 24, 2020 - October 30, 2020 https://www.iros2020.org/ See more details •	31

Where are the robots when you need them!

HRI 2020 Keynote: Ayanna Howard

Architecting the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Sampling and Caching System - Matthew Robinson (JPL)