From Information to Action: A Perspective on the Past and Future of Robotics Research and Applications
Mathematics and Computer Information Science Seminar with Dr. Greg Hager
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Jan 23, 2012 from 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm |
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| Where | College Center North Ballroom |
| Contact Name | John Peterson |
| Contact Phone | (970) 943-2392 |
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Gregory D. Hager
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
It’s an exciting time in robotics! We’ve seen amazing advances in hardware, we have remarkable amounts of computation at our disposal, and the advent of data intensive computing promises to provide new ways to look at traditionally hard problems in reasoning and perception. So where are those robots? In this talk, I’ll briefly discuss some of the major advances over the past 30 years of robotics research. These advances have now created platforms for perception, actuation, and reasoning that were unobtainable even ten years ago. I will use this to frame what I see as some of the future directions in robotics. In particular, I will focus on the development of true human-machine collaborative systems and their application in diverse areas such as medicine, manufacturing, and the home.
Gregory D. Hager is a professor and chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the deputy director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. His research interests include time-series analysis of image data, image-guided robotics, medical applications of image analysis and robotics, and human-computer interaction. He is currently a member of the governing board of the International Federation of Robotics Research and the Council of the CRA Computing Community Consortium. In 2006, he was elected a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions in Vision-Based Robotics.
