Today at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), a paper by my colleagues at the University of Surrey and me, “Translating images into maps”,...
The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the major conference in the field of robotics, takes place this week, and Amazon is one of its...
For a human to drive successfully around an urban environment, they must be able to trust their eyes and other senses, know where they are, understand...
We as humans take for granted our ability to operate in ever-changing home environments. Every morning, we can get from our bed to the kitchen, even...
Today, using drones in responding to natural or man-made disasters is limited by the fact that they need to be both individually piloted and have their...
When Guilherme A.S. Pereira arrived at the University of West Virginia from his native Brazil in 2018, he was focused on a single, long-term mission: moving...
Lantao Liu and his team at the Vehicle Autonomy and Intelligence Lab (VAIL) at Indiana University Bloomington want to help robots get better at navigating through...
When Radhika Nagpal was starting graduate school in 1994, she and her future husband went snorkeling in the Caribbean. Nagpal, who grew up in a landlocked...
Introduced in January 2019, Amazon’s Scout delivery robot now is slowly shuttling around four areas in the United States: Snohomish County, Wash.; Irvine, Calif.; Franklin, Tenn.;...
Robots are everywhere these days. They paint cars, perform surgery, and make up security patrols. At Amazon, robots play increasingly key roles in warehouses, where they...