Frontiers of Robotics National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering 1998

Karel Capek, R.U.R. (1923) “Robot”

What is a Robot? Anthropomorphic Non-Anthropomorphic Unstructured Structured Flexible Efficient

Robot Industry Fanuc, ABB, Adept Welding Spray Painting Assembly Automotive, Food, Aerospace, Electronics Size of Industry (1997): $1 Billion

Robotics Research Kinematics Dynamics Motion Planning Grasping Locomotion Actuator Design Sensor Design MechE, CS, EE, IE NSF, Arpa, NASA Japan, Europe Universities, Nat Labs IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation

Some Other Frontiers of Robotics Medical, Surgical R. Micro-scale Robots Internet Robots Modular Robots Hazardous Cleanup Robot Pets Nonlinear Control Lie Algebra Computational Geom. Computational Algebra Randomization

Lego Mindstorms (1998)

Our Speakers Lydia Kavraki, Rice –Algorithms: Motion Planning Joel Burdick, CalTech –Mechanics: Locomotion Larry Matthies, NASA JPL –Sensing: Space Exploration Mike Peshkin, Northwestern –Design: Human/Robot Cooperation

Lunar Rover/Mars Sojourner

Honda Motor Co. 1996

Some Predictions “2% of population will manufacture all goods.” (1963) “Atomic Batteries will be commonplace.” (1955) “Household robots will do all chores.” (1930)

“Industrial robot”: Reprogrammable, multi-function manipulator with 3 or more axes. (Robot Institute of America)