MIT
FSR Conference: Call For Papers
The 7th Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR) will be held at MIT this year between July 14 – 16. The conference is soliciting papers to be submitted on a number of topics. Notably absent is the topic of ethics. I was a little surprised considering the nature of field and service robots–working closely [...]
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MIT’s Technology Awakens Mobile Devices–Robots Next?
The SynTactic Analysis using Reversible Transformations (“START”) system is a super information-finding technology that was developed by Boris Katz and his associates of the InfoLab Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It’s a system that’s been running since 1993–long before Google came along. The system has two syntactic modules: One for [...]
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Human-Robot Interaction is Coming of Age
My first robot was an MC68HC11-based RugWarrior Pro I named “Beto.” When I opened the box he came in, I found a couple of motors, tires, a small board, tons of little things to solder, and a few other bits and pieces of robo-guts. Over the next week or so, my kids observed me putting [...]
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[Exclusive] Rodney Brooks Keynote at Singularity Summit
The Singularity Summit is a two day event happening this weekend in San Francisco. The event is being hosted by SIAI, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. This event is follow-on to last year’s Singularity Summit 1 conducted at Stanford. Keynoting the event this morning was Rodney Brooks , of CSAIL and iRobot fame. Brooks [...]
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MIT, Xitome, UMASS Developing Robots that Learn in Social Contexts
MIT, Xitome Design, and UMASS Amherst are collaborating to develop a robot that combines novel mobility, “moderate dexterity, and human-centric communication and interaction abilities.” They refer to this class of robots as “MDS” for Mobile/Dexterous/Social. The purpose of this platform is to support research and education goals in human-robot interaction, teaming, and social learning. Thus, [...]
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