6. Automation and robotics

Trends in sensing and robotics

Aerial view

Now a lot of robotics is very impressive, but manipulation robotics is really just in the dark ages.

And aerial stunts. No aerial stunt would be the same without skydiving.

ACM Aerial Combat Simulator

Use of aerial observation

And the aerial reconnaissance?

Aerial mines. Now, remember.

But let me show you cutting edge robotics.

The projects also sought to design an algorithm to translate a specification written in SLG into a set of theorems to be proved, from which programs can be extracted and that can provide interesting applications in the areas of robotics and geodetic or aerial survey.

Robotics systems are just incredible these days, absolutely incredible.

And this is like robotics without wires or motors.

Aerial videography and aerial forward looking infrared surveys are two methods of estimating animal numbers over large areas.

(v) Aerial delivered Bombs Sub munitions,

Unarmed aerial vehicles for border surveillance.

(b) Conducts coastal and aerial patrol

So we're really entering the era of wearable robotics actually.

And now this is the early era of wearable robotics.

Welcome to RoMeLa, the Robotics Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech.

No, agile aerial robots like this one.

It's an Aerial Regional scale Environmental Surveyor.

Aerial mapping of Middle Camps, Gaza (Australia)

I'm at Carnegie Mellon we've got a great Robotics Institute there.

And many, many other robotics projects I want to talk about.

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

I took here a model from robotics it's called the Subsumption Architecture.

And we will be bringing robotics of all sorts into the ocean.

We worked with, by the way, Honeybee Robotics. This is the brain.

Here is an example of our aerial camera.

This is an aerial photo taken last summer.

There is no generalization at all from one task to another in robotics.

So these robots are related to unmanned aerial vehicles.

This is an aerial picture we did this year.

Space, aerial and ground survey using remote sensing techniques.

Landsat and SPOT images and aerial photography are used.

Can we really scale this up? Can we really embed robotics into every part?

The concept also includes selective aerial reconnaissance of particular areas.

It also implemented aerial photography programmes simultaneously with space photography.

And then I started Hanson Robotics, which has been developing these things for mass manufacturing.

But the robotics part is the hardest part. That's the old brain. That's really hard.

At our lab RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, we have these fantastic brainstorming sessions.

It also conducts space robotics experiments by using the robot arm installed on the chaser satellite.

So this is the end of a Ph.D. project from one of the best robotics institutes.

So I wish that I could tell you what the future of personal robotics looks like.