Sep 16, 2022 · Hierarchical planning is great in that it helps prune infeasible plans before spending time producing detailed, low-level plans. However, in this space the mythical downward refinement property is often cited. To directly quote the 1991 paper by Bacchus and Yang, this property states that “given that a concrete-level solution exists, every abstract solution can be refined to a concrete-level ...

Jan 10, 2025 · Kirstin Petersen is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Her lab, the Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab, is focused on design and coordination of robot collectives able to achieve complex behaviors beyond the reach of an individual, and corresponding studies on how social insects do so in nature.

Dec 5, 2016 · This fall’s new FAA regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren’t exactly what you want? A new system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is the first to allow users to design, simulate and build their own custom drone.Users can change the size, shape and structure of ...

Aug 31, 2022 · Deciding which states to expand during search could be purely based on a predetermined traversal strategy, using standard approaches like breadth-first search (BFS), depth-first search (DFS), and the like.Whether we decide to add costs to actions or treat them all as unit cost (that is, an optimal plan simply minimizes the total number of actions), we could instead decide to use greedy or hill ...

Mar 18, 2024 · The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) is pleased to announce the creation of the Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA), a new initiative to strengthen the governance of our open-source robotics software projects and ensure the health of the Robot Operating System (ROS) Suite community for many years to come.The OSRA will use a mixed membership and meritocratic model, following other ...

Nov 10, 2023 · In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Dan Nicholson from MakerForge.tech about creating open source robotics projects you can do at home.

Jan 24, 2017 · In Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley (2) we learn that there is a similar effect between robot appearance and trustworthiness of a robot. Robots that showed more positive emotions were also more likeable. So it seems like more human looking robots would lead to more trust and likeability.

May 21, 2021 · Automatic: The robot is controllable and it can execute motion commands provided by a human in a constrained environment.Think, for example, of industrial robots in an assembly line.You don’t need to program very complicated intelligence for a robot to put together a piece of an airplane from a fixed set of instructions.

May 30, 2023 · During the 2020 pandemic, members of the reddit & discord r/robotics community rallied to organize an online showcase for members of our community.

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