…..and runs multiple simulations to plan the optimal route to the drinks.

Monday, January 23rd, 6 pm

***Union Station , Northampton***

“Where am I?”

and other fundamental questions robots think long and hard to answer

*What is a robot?
*What can robots do for us?
*How do robots work?
*Why do robots find it hard to do things that are trivial for humans?
*What is a realistic projection of robots a decade from today?

Robots have a come a long way, but we are still short of having intelligent robotic home assistants. In this talk, we shall cover some recent research allowing robots to move robustly over long deployments, and existing challenges that baffle roboticists.

Joydeep Biswas is an assistant professor of information and computer science at UMass, Amherst. His ultimate research goal is to have self-sufficient autonomous mobile robots working in human environments, performing tasks accurately and robustly.

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