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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Robotics News
Students make it to finals of first autonomous EV GrandPrix race
September 30, 2021
A group of UC San Diego engineering and data science students was one of three teams to make it to the final round of the inaugural autonomous EV GrandPrix go-kart race hosted by Purdue University in Indianapolis on Sept. 17. Full Story
IROS 2021 preview: robotic mapping and manipulation
September 22, 2021
Researchers at the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute will present three papers at the IROS 2021 conference, which takes place Sept. 27 to Oct. 1, 2021, both online and in person in Prague. Full Story
Researchers develop first steerable catheter for brain surgery
August 18, 2021
A team of engineers and physicians has developed a steerable catheter that for the first time will give neurosurgeons the ability to steer the device in any direction they want while navigating the brain’s arteries and blood vessels. The device was inspired by nature, specifically insect legs and flagella--tail-like structures that allow microscopic organisms such as bacteria to swim. Full Story
Seminars
"Reinventing Human-Robot Interaction for Companion Robots"
Thursday 21 October @ 11AM PST (Virtual Seminar)
Join URL: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94406976474
Speaker: Paolo Pirjanian, Ph.D., Founder/CEO of Embodied and former CTO of iRobot
"Enabling Grounded Language Communication for Human-Robot Teaming "
Thursday 14 October @ 11AM (Virtual)
Join URL: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94406976474
Speaker: Professor Thomas Howard
"Beyond the Label: Robots that Reason about Object Semantics"
Thursday 7th October @ 11AM PST
Zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94406976474
Speaker: Professor Sonia Chernova