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Text reads Robotics for Climate Change Workshop @ICRA 2022. Stein Particle Filter for Nonlinear, Nan-Gaussian State Estimation. Image of speaker Fabio Ramos.

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.

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.

Text reads Robotics for Climate Change Workshop @ICRA 2022. Can Low-Cost Robots Help Us Understand Ice-Ocean Interactions Leading to Global Sea Level Rise? Image of speaker Mandar Chitre.

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.

Text reads Robotics for Climate Change Workshop @ICRA 2022. Exploring Polar and Planetary Frontiers with Science-Driven Robotics. Image of speaker Matt Meister.

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.

ICRA 2022 Working on Addressing Ethical and Technical Challenges in the Development, Use, and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). An image of Rouzena Bajcsy and the title Roboticist Social Responsibility.

Roboticist Social Responsibility

This presentation takes a historical perspective on the social responsibility of the scientific and engineering communities and their technological achievements, and their effects on societies, covering mostly the 20th and 21st centuries.

Autonomous Rules of Engagement Escalation in Human-Robot Teams

A future battlefield environment is likely to be characterized by great speed and precision with which hostilities are conducted. The full integration of autonomous capabilities on a large scale is essential to winning in such a battlefield environment.

Weaponized Robots: Understanding the Spectrum of Risk and Fear

The increasing capabilities of mobile ground robotics are raising new concerns about their potential for misuse. A significant focus of such discussions has been on “autonomy,” but among some constituencies, concerns about weaponized robots start at an earlier point along the spectrum of technical capabilities.

Why Is No One Banning Killer Robots?

Strong cases against lethal autonomy weapons (LAWS) have been made from a multitude of different perspectives, all being generally countered by the broader concept of national security. Despite years of discussions, we seem no closer to consensus.

Permissible Uncertainty and Meaningful Human Control

This talk proposes that we shift debates on LAWS away from questions about whether we should let robots make decisions or perform ethically assessable actions and instead work to articulate what the human agents involved, at different stages of command, need to know in order for them to make responsible and ethical decisions about the deployment of such systems.

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