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Tuesday, February
3rd
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Robots for
Humanity
Steve B Cousins, PhD &
Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado, PhD
Executive
Director of the Stanford Robotics Center & Research Engineer at the
Stanford Robotics Center |
Abstract: "Human beings are
remarkable for the many ways we can impact the world. We move through and
interact with the world directly, or with the help of tools, using our brains
and our muscles to control those tools. Robots can be thought of as tools,
often with computers instead of brains, and motors instead of muscles. Robots
were invented to serve humanity and can be great assistive technologies. They
can augment and extend our capabilities, whether to replace functions we no
longer have (or never had), or to give us new powers. Additionally, they can
support healthy behaviors that contribute to longevity, from physical activity
to social connection. In this talk, we'll give examples of how robots can and
do help people, from the Robots for Humanity
project and other work at Stanford and beyond, in order to explore what makes
robots different from other assistive technologies. We'll also present the new
SOAR (Stanford Older Adult Robotics) project that we're launching at the
Stanford Robotics Center."
Biosketch: Steve B.
Cousins is the Executive Director of the Stanford Robotics Center. He founded
Relay Robotics, formerly Savioke,
serving as CTO and CEO, where he led the development and deployment of Relay -
an autonomous delivery robot that works in human environments to help people.
Steve was previously President and CEO of
Willow Garage, and is
a founding board member of the Open
Source Robotics Foundation. Steve received the
IEEE
/ IFR Award for Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation
in 2017.
Steve earned his PhD in
Computer Science at Stanford
University under the direction of
Terry Winograd,
and also holds BS and MS computer science degrees from Washington
University.
Biosketch: Michelle
Baldonado is a Research Engineer at the Stanford Robotics Center. She leads
the Stanford Older Adults Robotics (SOAR) project at the SRC. Michelle earned
her PhD in Computer Science at Stanford
University under the direction of
Terry Winograd.
She also earned an MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing from
Cambridge University and an AB in Computer Science (joint with Linguistics)
from Harvard University.
- Contact
information:
- Stanford Profile for Steve
B. Cousins
- Stanford Profile for
Michelle Baldonado
- Lecture Material:
- Pre-lecture slides - 799 Kb pdf file
- Slides - 6.99 Mb pdf file
- Photos - 789 Kb pdf file
- Videos
- Slide 2 - Unimate 1963
- Slide 4 - Mailbot 1979
- Slide 8 - Robot falls down
escalator
- Slide 9 - Relay Robotics
- Slide 10 - Sushi Challenge
- Slide 13 - Henry Evans - Robots for
Humanity
- Slide 16 - Wally to the
Rescue
- Slide 17 - Hotel Food Delivery with
Relay+1
- Links:
- gitamini robot from Piaggio Fast
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