Toward robots with cognitive abilities: keynote speaker
Jean Oh · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2017
As robots become commonplace in a variety of domains including manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, and the military, there has been growing interest in the development of intelligent robots that can support humans not only as tools, but also as teammates. To be a competent teammate, a robot needs to have basic cognitive abilities including perceiving the semantics of its environment, reasoning about spatial relationships, and communicating with natural language. In this talk, I will use a few specific applications including semantic navigation to illustrate various technical challenges and the lessons learned in developing autonomous robots that can work with humans.