Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.19
June 30, 2024
…Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and ACM, and recipient of the United States Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring. Matarić is the founding director of the USC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center. Behavior-based systems and distributed robotics fleet management Matarić made fundamental contributions to autonomous cognition and interaction. The ACM said her early work demonstrated that behavior-based systems (BBS) could be endowed with representation and have the expressive power to plan and learn. Her Toto system used BBS to learn maps online and optimize its behavior. Matarić researched distributed algorithms for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.29
December 07, 2023
…published in Volume 24, Issue 11 of the journal IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems on November 2023. The proposed system is built on the YOLOv3 (You Only Look Once) deep learning object detection technique, which is the most active state-of-the-art technique available for 2D visual detection. The researchers first used this new model for 2D object detection and then modified the YOLOv3 technique to detect 3D objects. Using both point cloud data and RGB images as input, the system generates bounding boxes with confidence scores and labels for visible obstacles as output. To assess the system’s performance, the team…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.95
August 27, 2023
…the paper, which appeared in the latest issue of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, were the following: Tao Pang, Ph.D. ’23, co-lead author and a roboticist at Boston Dynamics AI Institute Lujie Yang, an EECS graduate student Russ Tedrake, senior author and the Toyota professor of EECS, aeronautics and astronautics, and mechanical engineering, and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) In these figures, a simulated robot performs three contact-rich manipulation tasks: in-hand manipulation of a ball, picking up a plate, and manipulating a pen into a specific orientation. Source: MIT, courtesy of the researchers Reinforcement learning…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.41
August 23, 2023
…do from a digital helper. The findings, published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, show how an AI agent interprets its environment through tactile and proprioceptive feedback, and then control the robots' behaviors. The researchers said this enables precise sensing, gentle interaction, and effective object manipulation to accomplish robotic tasks. They added that this development could revolutionize industries such as fruit picking, domestic service, and eventually recreate touch in artificial limbs. “With our Bi-Touch system, we can easily train AI agents in a virtual world within a couple of hours to achieve bimanual tasks that are tailored towards the touch,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.82
June 25, 2023
…held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Computer Vision Foundation in Vancouver, Canada, AI2 presented a paper on Phone2Proc. The approach involves scanning a space, creating a simulated environment, and procedurally generating thousands of scenes to train a robot for possible scenarios. AI2 claimed that Phone2Proc can more easily and quickly train robots to perform in settings such as a floor covered with toys, a room whose furniture has been moved, or a cluttered workspace. Kiana Ehsani, AI2 researcher Robotics 24/7 spoke with Kiana Ehsani, one of the researchers leading the Phone2Proc effort. She studied…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.62
June 16, 2023
…over the U.S. MassRobotics announced the winners at the IEEE ICRA conference in London on June 1, 2023. “We were thrilled by the overwhelming number of qualified nominations we received and impressed with the diversity of robotic fields and research happening across the globe” said Joyce Sidopoulos, cofounder at MassRobotics. “It reflects the powerful contributions women have made and will continue to make to this important, vibrant and growing field supporting nearly all industries.” The Robotics Medal and Rising Star recipients were selected by a committee of robotics experts, led by MassRobotics, which convened several times and evaluated the significance,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.11
May 25, 2023
…than a dozen robotics research papers at this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, or ICRA, which will be held in London from May 29 to June 2. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will recognize one of the company's papers, titled “Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior,” with an IEEE Best Paper award at ICRA. Papers examine training robots in simulation to work in reality Many of this year’s submissions demonstrate robotics capabilities trained in simulation that were then shown to work in the real world, noted NVIDIA. Members of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.84
April 03, 2023
…Force Research Laboratory, and the U.S. Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator. The paper will be presented at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.29
January 05, 2023
…4.0 application readiness via high-speed communications and conformance to IEEE 1588 standards Power management, including with sleep and deep-sleep modes for unused blocks, supporting always-on capability eCV1 computing performance through the quad-core Cortex A55 64-bit CPU and the 4.6 TOPS (trillion operations per second) neural processor unit (NPU) in the eCV1 chip, which provides dedicated machine learning instructions, a patented neural network engine, and Tensor Processing Fabric Flexible image and computer vision processing for domain-specific applications The new platform also supplies developers with H.264 compression for easy video streaming, said the company. XINK's Crypto Engine includes ARM's TrustZone for security,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 58.29
August 22, 2022
…have one more week to submit applications for the IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award. The award will recognize an individual who has made “significant” contributions to the engineering and entrepreneurial ecosystem of a country or region, said the association. Nominations are due Aug. 31, 2022. “I'd like to see a robotics entrepreneur win,” noted Andra Keay, managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR). She is also industrial activities president for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS), as well as entrepreneurship deep tech lead at IEEE. IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is a Piscataway, N.J.-based professional association…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.34
May 24, 2022
…held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Philadelphia. The NVIDIA Robotics Research Lab plans to present papers on how robot skills can be learned in NVIDIA Isaac Sim photorealistics, physics-accurate simulation and then transferred to real systems and environments, or Sim2Real. It will also discuss how accurate localization can improve autonomous vehicle and indoor navigation, as well as the use of AI and pose estimation for robotics development. NVIDIA will also present on how service robots can reliably manipulate deformable objects, such as sponges, mops, or bedding, in warehouses or hospitals. It will describe how systems…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.21
March 04, 2022
…Chung. Their work was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. The research will be presented at the IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction from March 7 to 10 online.
