Media Invitation: A lecture by Dr Paul Newman: "Where am I?" – A Robot’s Perspective
Friday 13 June 2008
Members of the media are cordially invited to a lecture by Dr Paul Newman entitled 'Where am I? – A Robot’s Perspective', to be held at the University of Surrey on Tuesday 1 July, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.
The applications of mobile robots are both numerous and important. We want and need machines to explore and operate in hazardous and remote environments, to labour faultlessly in our ports, mines, hospitals, building sites, warehouses and oceans. This can be tricky. A big problem is how to endow the robot with a sense of place – an ability to know its current location in arbitrary, dynamic and, crucially, unsurveyed workspaces. Because so many automation tasks demand answers to ‘where am I?’ inventing algorithms capable of producing swift and reliable answers has always been a priority for the robotics research community.
This lecture will discuss some of these techniques, explain just what makes understanding space such a hard and interesting Artificial Intelligence problem and will be frank about why we still do not have the machines we have been saying for years are ‘just around the corner...’
- Reception and lecture: School of Management
- Drinks reception: 6.00 p.m.
- Lecture: 6.30 p.m.