This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance via Zoom.

ABSTRACT

What will it take to develop robots that work with us in real-world tasks? In this talk, we’ll discuss some of our work across the autonomy stack of a robot as we make progress towards an answer. We’ll begin with multi-modal sensing and perception, and then move on to modeling humans with little data. We’ll end with the primary insights gained in our journey and  a discussion of challenges in deriving robots that we trust to operate in social environments.