The Robot State Reports

Join us for a discussion with experts from the robotics and health community

 

This event is free and open to the public, every week at 7pm on Tuesdays. Expert guests include:

Gui Cavalcanti, CEO/Cofounder of Breeze Automation and Founder of Open Source Covid-19 Medical Supplies Group,

Alder Riley, Founder at ideastostuff and a coordinator at Helpful Engineering,

Tra Vu, COO at Ohmnilabs, a telepresence robotics and 3D printing startup,

Mark Martin, Regional Director Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Development California Community Colleges,

Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley Director of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative,

Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor at U of Texas and founder of Disaster Robotics field,

Ross Mead, CEO/founder of Semio,

Cory Kidd, CEO/founder of Cataliah Health,

Wendy Ju Professor of Embodied Interaction Design.

Andra Keay, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics and Visiting Scholar at CITRIS People and Robots Initiative will act as moderator.

Beau Ambur, Outreach, Design and Technology Lead for Kickstarter will be coordinating technology for us.

Donations will support the work of OSCMS, Helpful Engineering and PPE groups. Every Tuesday at 7pm PDT at https://covidandrobots.eventbrite.com/

 

Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies Group is a rapidly growing Facebook group formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

 

Helpful Engineering is another rapidly growing global network created to design, source and execute projects that can help people suffering from the COVID-19 crisis worldwide.

 

About CITRIS CPAR 

Cloud Robotics, Deep Learning, Human-Centric Automation, and Bio-Inspired Robotics are among the primary research themes of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative that focuses on new theory, benchmarks, software, and approaches that address challenges in the interest of society.

 

About Silicon Valley Robotics

Silicon Valley Robotics is a non-profit industry association supporting innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. With more than 50 robotics research labs, and over 500 robotics startups, the Silicon Valley/SF Bay Area region is the most active robotics cluster in the world.

Decades of research in artificial intelligence (AI) have produced formidable technologies that are providing immense benefit to industry, government, and society. AI systems can now translate across multiple languages, identify objects in images and video, streamline manufacturing processes, and control cars. The deployment of AI systems has not only created a trillion-dollar industry that is projected to quadruple in three years, but has also exposed the need to make AI systems fair, explainable, trustworthy, and secure. Future AI systems will rightfully be expected to reason effectively about the world in which they (and people) operate, handling complex tasks and responsibilities effectively and ethically, engaging in meaningful communication, and improving their awareness through experience.

Achieving the full potential of AI technologies poses research challenges that require a radical transformation of the AI research enterprise, facilitated by significant and sustained investment. These are the major recommendations of a recent community effort coordinated by the Computing Community Consortium and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence to formulate a Roadmap for AI research and development over the next two decades.

The guide to understanding the current state of the art in hardware & software for self-driving vehicles. This report was compiled by Wevolver, sponsored by Nexperia and read by Andra Keay from Silicon Valley Robotics as our initiative to bring you the research and reports that we're reading! From the frontline in in robotics innovation to you!