New centre will give robots the gift of sight — from Queensland University of Technology; 18 March 2014
Excerpt:
“Society is on the cusp of a revolution in robotics in which personal robots will become an everyday fact of life. What we need to make this happen is to develop technology which allows a robot to perceive its environment – to sense, understand and learn from the information it gathers.
“We want to use cameras in robots, which are less costly and use less power than other types of sensors,” he said.
“Cameras provide very rich information about the world, and we know from our own experience that our eyes, which are just cameras, provide the information we need to perform complex tasks like driving cars or picking up objects.
“This Centre will deliver the science and technologies that will turn cameras into powerful sensing devices capable of understanding and responding to their environment, and enabling robots to operate reliably over long periods, in complex unstructured surroundings where they will interact with humans as well as objects, many of which will require delicate handling.
US Army to test robots that “think – look – move – talk – work” — from robohub.org by Colin Lewis
Excerpt:
A report issued by the US Department of Defense shows that the army intends to test robots that “think – look – move – talk and work.” Figure 24 from the report summarizes the Army’s vision for these five problem domains, barriers to achieving its vision, and work to be done to advance toward the vision.
Deep Learning’s Role in the Age of Robots — from innovationinsights.wired.com by Julian Green
Avidbots wants to automate commercial cleaning with robots — from spectrum.ieee.orgby Evan Ackerman
