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IIIT Hyderabad hosts lecture on symbiotic robotics
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad) hosted a lecture on \'Symbiotic Robot Autonomy and Learning\' by Manuela Veloso, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and the Head of the Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
​Hyderabad: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad) hosted a lecture on 'Symbiotic Robot Autonomy and Learning' by Manuela Veloso, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and the Head of the Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Prof PJ Narayanan, Director, Prof Vasudeva Varma, Dean (R&D), Prof Jayanthi Sivaswamy (Dean Academics), Kolla Krishna Madhavi, Head of New Initiatives, other IIIT Hyderabad faculty and students were present. There was also a wide participation from the industry representatives, startup community, academia and students from other tech. colleges as well.
In the talk, Prof Veloso introduced the CoBot service that is used in CMU. She discussed CoBot's novel localisation technology and symbiotic autonomy which enables them to move in buildings, for more than 1000 Kms. She talked about their novel mobile data collection techniques and how CoBots collect vital information for buildings and the algorithm that goes behind doing so.
The talk gave an overview of challenges faced in processing and classifying the environment and techniques to overcome the SLAM problem. Prof.Veloso shared instances of multiple robot-human interactions to show how robust the system is.
The talk covered topics ranging from internal map representation, symbiotic autonomy, transparency, verbalization, and localization. The cycle of creation was explained in terms of actuation, cognition, and perception. She shared instances of how the robots learn from human interactions and also showed clips from the latest Robot Soccer championship.
A possible collaboration between CMU and IIIT in the field of AI and Robotics was also discussed.
