Broad Area Colloquium For AI-Geometry-Graphics-Robotics-Vision
The Toy Robots Initiative: Educational and Interactive Robotics
Illah R. Nourbakhsh
Assistant Professor of Robotics
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Wednesday, April 12, 2000
refreshments 4:05PM, talk begins 4:15PM
TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract
In 1998 we founded the Toy Robots Initiative at The Robotics Institute.
Its research charter focuses on
human-robot interaction, elegant robot mechanism and educational robotics.
I will describe our research
as well as our educational projects, and then I will provide some
entertaining wisdom regarding effective
collaboration with toy companies. You can learn more about the initiative
at www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/EDUTOY.
About the Speaker
Illah R. Nourbakhsh is an Assistant Professor of Robotics in The Robotics
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in computer
science from Stanford University in 1996. He is co-founder of the Toy
Robots Initiative at The Robotics Institute. His current research projects
include electric wheelchair sensing devices, robot learning, theoretical
robot architecture, believable robot personality, visual navigation and
robot locomotion. His past research has included protein structure
prediction under the GENOME project, software reuse, interleaving planning
and execution and planning and scheduling algorithms. At the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory he was a member of the New Millenium Rapid Prototyping Team for
the design of autonomous spacecraft. He is a founder and chief scientist of
Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc. and Mobot, Inc. He is also chief scientist of
Hyperbot, Inc, and leads robot autonomy for Probotics, Inc.
bac-coordinators@cs.stanford.edu
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