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PLEASE JOIN DR. MATTHEW JOHNSON-ROBERSON, DIRECTOR OF THE ROBOTICS INSTITUTE AT CMU, ONSITE OR ONLINE, TO DISCUSS ROBOTICS: DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES

A broad definition of robotics is "where software meets the real world." While artifical intelligence (AI) has been around for nearly seven decades, its rapidly growing prevalence (including in robotics systems and generative AI) has given rise to new opportunities for society along with fresh concerns. In this talk, Dr. Johnson-Roberson will discuss some recent developments in robotics (with some cool videos!), describe exciting challenges for the future, and answer some questions about societal concerns.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson is Director of the Robotics Institute and Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously co-directed the University of Michigan Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles (FCAV) and he founded and leads the DROP (Deep Robot Optical Perception) Lab, which researches 3D reconstruction, segmentation, data mining, and visualization. He received his Bachelor's degree in computer science from CMU and his PhD in robotics from the University of Sydney and has held prior postdoctoral appointments with the Centre for Autonomous Systems–CAS at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2015).

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