Broad Area Colloquium For AI-Geometry-Graphics-Robotics-Vision
Humanoid Robots and Social Interaction
Rodney Brooks
Director, AI lab
MIT
Wednesday, May 3, 2000
refreshments 4:05PM, talk begins 4:15PM
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract
Robots with humanoid form are a tool for investigating and validating
cognitive theories. We are building a number of humanoid robots (Cog,
Kismet, Coco, plus partial systems K2, M4, Lazlo, etc.) and use four
guiding principles: embodiment, multi-modal integration, development,
and social interaction. With these principles but without any
kinematic or dynamic models, and without any central system with
symbolic representations we are able to get our robots to carry out
complex manipulation tasks, and interact with people using the same
social cues that people have evolved over millions of years. Our
systems are modeled on how humans and animals achieve the same sorts
of performance.
About the Speaker
Rodney Brooks is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and is the
Chairman and CTO of iRobot Corporation. He received a PhD in Computer Science
from Stanford in 1981, was on the research staff at CMU and MIT, then on the
CS faculty at Stanford, and joined the MIT faculty in 1984. He develoepd
many of the key ideas of behavior-based robots which are finding applications
from consumer products to oil production to planetary exploration. His current
research focuses on humanoid robots, models of development of cognition,
and social interaction between people and robots.
bac-coordinators@cs.stanford.edu
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