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Willow Garage’s Bet: Robotics

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Personal Robots

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Willow Garage: Personal Robots

• Around the House: doing the dishes, tidying up, laundry, cleaning

• Aging Populations: carrying heavy things, remembering where things are, retrieving items, preparing food, cleaning

• Assisting People with Disabilities: telemanipulation, feeding, doing chores, monitoring health and activity

• Operations: Starbucks, pick and pack, stocking grocery stores, tracking inventory, retrieving items, searchable physical file system

Boeing’s Bet

What Research Communities Will Own this Future?

AI Autonomous Systems?

Controls?

Mobile Robotics?

Humanoid Robotics?

The Opportunity

Vecna Bear

Too Hard to Tele-operate → Task Execution

Is our future “Shakey”?

We Must Become Dynamic

Continuous dynamics:

Actuation limits:

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They aren’t so bad:• Kinda like an STN• Just another Constraint Program• Something John Hooker handles, • … and he’s pretty relaxed.•Can just shove off to CPLEX and that’s just ILOG.•….

But We Must Relinquish Control

The Payoff

Quick Win Publications:

• Hybrid Discrete/Continuous Dispatchable Execution• Hybrid Blackbox• Hybrid Monitoring & Diagnosis• Hybrid HSP• Hybrid FF• Hybrid CSP/LP Solvers • Hybrid Action Learning• Hybrid - X…

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Interested? Email Williams@Mit.edu