Robotics

CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminars  (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)

Fridays 12:30-2:20 pm

Gates Building, Rm B01

Open to the public

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CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminars  (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)

Fridays 12:30-2:20 pm

Gates Building, Rm B01

Open to the public

Last modified Tue, 27 Oct, 2015 at 13:57

Led by Associate Professor Fei-Fei Li, the new SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research will focus on teaching computers to see and make critical decisions about how to interact with the world. At the outset, research will address intelligent robotics and autonomous cars.

Artificial intelligence is integrated into daily life, although often in imperceptible ways, such as language translators or algorithms that provide shopping tips based on past purchases. The next wave of AI-enabled devices that interact with humans will be far more obvious – think intelligent robotics and autonomous cars – and will become a driving force in reshaping society and individual lives.

Last modified Thu, 10 Sep, 2015 at 12:57

The best way to survive a car accident is to avoid collisions in the first place. Professor Chris Gerdes' engineering students are developing algorithms and pop-up obstacles that could lead to safe autonomous driving.

One promise of autonomous driving is not to simply survive accidents, but to avoid them altogether. With that in mind, Stanford engineering students have been testing an obstacle-avoidance algorithm using a pop-up obstacle they rigged up from a tablecloth and a leaf blower.

Last modified Sat, 25 Jul, 2015 at 21:20

Oussama Khatib is a winner of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award

Oussama Khatib, a professor of computer science, is one of three winners of this year's IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to the society and to the Robotics and Automation community.

Last modified Wed, 3 Jul, 2013 at 8:36

In celebration of National Robotics Week, the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party returns to the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab @ Stanford on Wednesday, April 10 2013, from 1 to 6pm.

Last modified Tue, 26 Mar, 2013 at 13:42

Best finals project ever? Students in the Introduction to Mechatronics course build robots to do battle, sumo wrestler-style, to display their mastery of combining mechanical, electrical and computer engineering skills.

Two robots enter, only one leaves.

This was the basic premise that students in this year's ME 210, Introduction to Mechatronics, course faced for their final project: Build a robot from scratch and send it to battle.

Last modified Tue, 2 Apr, 2013 at 8:56

Students in Mechatronics (Mechanical Engineering  210) have come up with an elegant and definitive solution to end the Fiscal Cliff crisis!

Last modified Mon, 11 Mar, 2013 at 10:20

An autonomous system for exploring the solar system's smaller members, such as moons and asteroids, could bring us closer to a human mission to Mars.

Stanford researchers, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed a robotic platform that could take space exploration to new heights.

The mission proposed for the platform involves a mother spacecraft deploying one or several spiked, roughly spherical rovers to the Martian moon Phobos. Measuring about half a meter wide, each rover would hop, tumble and bound across the cratered, lopsided moon, relaying information about its origins, as well as its soil and other surface materials.

Last modified Sun, 30 Dec, 2012 at 16:57

Engineers at Stanford's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed autonomous underwater vehicles that can photograph regions of the ocean floor that were once too risky for these robotic explorers.

Underwater robots just got smarter. Engineers at Stanford and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have developed a system that allows autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to better anticipate obstacles in their path, enabling them to safely photograph even treacherous, distant reaches of the ocean floor.

Last modified Mon, 26 Nov, 2012 at 16:05