Robots are increasingly deployed in environments that are unsafe or inaccessible for humans, from collapsed buildings and underground tunnels to industrial sites and disaster zones. In many of these ...

The idea of these so-called perception-driven systems is to interpret raw sensor data and convert it into actionable understanding. So, they capture the images as traditional machine vision would, but ...

James F. O’Brien is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include computer graphics and animation, simulations of physical systems, human ...

Background Machine learning is an artificial intelligence technique, consisting of learning from data and making predictions (such as classifications), which could provide access to an injury risk ...

Machines are moving beyond single-point sensing. Multi-sensor fusion now delivers vision, ranging and inertial data. The ...

What makes a robot truly intelligent? Is it the ability to solve complex equations in milliseconds or something more human-like—such as recognizing a misplaced object in a cluttered room or adapting ...