Robotics

Cruise driverless car at a city intersection
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What Self-Driving Cars Tell Us About AI Risks

Since 2016, automotive AI in the United States has been linked to at least 25 confirmed deaths and to hundreds of injuries and instances of property damage. An expert gives a ringside view of how real-world applications of transportation AI are or are not working.
ICRA 2022 Panel: Gregory Dudek, Ajung Moon, Elizabeth Hunter, Matt Meister, and Douglass Jerolmack
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Panel Discussion | Robotics for Climate Change Workshop @ ICRA 2022

This panel discussion features experts in robotics, environmental science, forest management and oceanography discussing a wide range of topics related to the workshop goal of addressing the challenges brought on by climate change.
ICRA 2022: Surface Signatures of Ocean Subduction for Targeted Sampling by Helag S. Huntley
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Surface Signatures of Ocean Subduction for Targeted Sampling

Vertical velocities in the ocean are generally several orders of magnitude smaller than horizontal ones. However, the vertical exchange of water masses is a critical component of the climate system; it also plays a large role in the redistribution of nutrients and pollutants, thereby impacting ecosystems.
ICRA 2022: Design and Deployment of Marine Robotics for Environmental Exploration and Monitoring
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Design and Deployment of Marine Robotics for Environmental Exploration and Monitoring

The ocean plays a critical role in shaping the future of the planet under climate change, acting as the primary store of heat and carbon on Earth. In order to better understand the effects of this interaction between the climate and ocean into the future, exploration and monitoring of marine environments is critical.
Text reads Robotics for Climate Change Workshop @ICRA 2022. Image of speaker Johanna Hansen
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Actionable Dynamics Modeling for Drifter Prediction

Learning-based methods combined with easily-specified physics knowledge form a powerful duo to enable robust robotic performance in the open world.
ICRA 2022: Stein Particle Filter for Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian State Estimation by Fabio Ramos
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Stein Particle Filter for Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian State Estimation

The sequential estimation of posterior distributions in state-space models from noisy observations is a critical capability in robotics, particularly in tasks such as localization, object pose estimation and terrain modelling.
ICRA 2022: Human-Computer Interaction for Precision Argiculture by Rahul Raj
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Human-Computer Interaction for Precision Agriculture

Farming in a small-scale, resource-poor farming system is majorly dependent on the traditional knowledge of farmers, with non-judicial, time-consuming and labour-intensive agricultural practices commonly implemented, leading to low productivity and degradation of resources.
ICRA 2022: Can Low-Cost Robots Help Us Understand Ice-Ocean Interactions Leading to Sea Level Rise?
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Can Low-Cost Robots Help Us Understand Ice-Ocean Interactions Leading to Global Sea Level Rise?

Melting of tidewater glaciers and ice shelves are closely linked to sea level rise. Direct measurements of submarine melt rates of glacier ice are difficult to make, as the waters in front of the glacier terminus are hazardous, especially in summer when the ice is melting rapidly and subaerial and submarine calving events occur often.
ICRA 2022: Exploring Polar and Planetary Frontiers with Science-Driven Robotics by Matt Meister
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Exploring Polar & Planetary Frontiers with Science-Driven Robotics

Beneath ice shelves on Earth, processes such as accretion, melt and circulation mediate the interaction between the ocean and the ice. These are an important element of Earth’s climate system, contributing to the evolution of the cryosphere, and in some cases can destabilize ice shelves and ice sheets in our warming climate.