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Docentföreläsning: Robot Visions, Robot Vision Danica Kragic onsdag 7 juni 2006 kl 11.15 - 12 sal E3, Osquarsbacke 14

In 1990, a book called ‘Robot visions’ was published. The book is a collection of 18 of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories. The earliest stories in the book, written from 1940 to 1960, are and remain among the most known ones in the field of science fiction. The story “The Bicentennial Man” published in 1976 tells us about one robot’s desires and efforts to be first free and then equal to a human being, with all the rights that follow. So, how close to the fiction are we?

In my talk, I will give a short introduction to the field of robotics mainly concentrating on the areas of robot vision and human machine collaborative systems. Human-machine collaborative systems (HMCSs) are systems that amplify or assist human capabilities during the performance of tasks that require both human judgment and robotic precision. I will talk about the current research and open problems related to the design of HMCSs in
the context of service robots and microsurgical procedures such as vitreo-retinal eye surgery.

In 1982, the Toshiba Corporation announced that it had developed and put into operation the world’s first vision based robot system, in which the arms and hands of two assembly line robots interacted with each other to duplicate the complex movements of an actual production line worker. The spokesman for the company said that this meant that assembly processes in which workers use their eyes and both hands could be fully automated. But what is a seeing robot? Does it already exist or what are the problems that have to be solved to design one?