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Tuesday, February
4th
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Thoughts on
Assistive Robotics
Steve B Cousins,
PhD
Executive Director of the Stanford Robotics
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Abstract: "Human beings are
remarkable for the many ways we can impact the world. We move through and
interact with the world directly, or with the help of tools, using our brains
and our muscles to control those tools. Robots can be thought of as tools,
often with computers instead of brains, and motors instead of muscles. Robots
were invented to serve humanity and can be great assistive technologies. They
can augment and extend our capabilities, whether to replace functions we no
longer have (or never had), or to give us new powers. In this talk, I'll give
examples of how robots can and do help people, from Robots for Humanity project and other work at
Stanford and beyond, in order to explore what makes robots different from other
assistive technologies."
Biosketch: Steve B.
Cousins is the Executive Director of the Stanford Robotics Center. He founded
Relay Robotics, formerly Savioke,
serving as CTO and CEO, where he led the development and deployment of Relay -
an autonomous delivery robot that works in human environments to help people.
Steve was previously President and CEO of
Willow Garage, and is
a founding board member of the Open
Source Robotics Foundation. Steve received the
IEEE
/ IFR Award for Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation
in 2017.
Steve earned his PhD in
Computer Science at Stanford
University under the direction of
Terry Winograd,
and also holds BS and MS computer science degrees from Washington
University.
- Contact
information:
- cousins -at -
cs.stanford.edu
- Lecture Material:
- Pre-lecture slides - 1.03 Mb pdf file
- Slides - 2.54 Mb pdf file
- Photos - 649 Kb pdf file
- Videos
- Slide 5 - Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins:
Meet the Robots for Humanity (10:22)
- Slide 15 - Wally to the Rescue
(1:55)
- Slide 20 - Texai Short
(0:18)
- Links:
- Stanford
Profile
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