ROBOTS IN THE REAL WORLD
WORKING WITH HUMANS
Our research teams are working to solve today’s pressing challenges in key areas including healthcare and autonomous vehicles.
Long term, we aim to develop robots that serve society in real time, in the real world. These robotic systems will adapt, evolve and create their own solutions based on the people and situations – the context – they encounter. And they’ll need to be secure.
To deliver, we are tackling fundamental research bottlenecks that will open up new capabilities for robots. Autonomous operation in many different environments is just one example.
Our plans require new approaches to research. New paradigms. We’ve aligned world-class expertise in hardware, software, cognitive science, design, machine learning, materials, security, and more, to make it happen.
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Contextual Robotics Institute 2018 Forum: Healthcare Robotics
The Contextual Robotics Institute 2018 Forum is Thursday, November 8 at UC San Diego. The topic is Healthcare Robotics.
The Forum will explore robotics in healthcare. We will consider both clinical and domestic applications of robotics technology. Topics will include: surgical robotics, physical and sensory augmentation, cognitive support, and industry/government relations.
Learn more and register today.
Robotics News
March 13, 2019
The robots that dementia caregivers want: robots for joy, robots for sorrow
Building robots that can help people with dementia has been a longtime goal for roboticists. Yet until now, no one has sought to survey informal caregivers, such as family members, about what characteristics and roles these robots should have. A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego sought to address this by spending six months co-designing robots with family members, social workers, and other caregivers who care for people with dementia. They are presenting their findings at the Human Robot Interaction conference March 11 to 14 in South Korea. Full Story
February 5, 2019
Overcoming Delays in Long-Distance Surgery
An engineering-surgery team at UC San Diego is working to extend the reach of surgeons by allowing them to operate remotely on patients located across a city, country, or even the globe. They are developing predictive augmented reality systems that could help make telesurgery a reality. Full Story
Seminars
Transforming today's manually operated machines into tomorrow's autonomous solutions
Joint CCSD-CRI Seminar - Oleg Sinyavskiy from Brain Corporation
Building Safe and Secure Cyber-Physical Systems Against All Odds!
CRI Lecture Series - Radoslav Ivanov fro University of Pennsylvania
Avoiding Armageddon: Long-term Asteroid Orbit Deflection Optimization with Kinetic Impactors
Joint CCSD-CRI Seminar - Siegfried Eggl from NASA
Smart Robotic Assistants for Manufacturing Applications
CRI Lecture Series - SK Gupta from University of Southern California