Why softness may be a good idea for manipulation
Event details
Date | 13.11.2015 |
Hour | 14:00 |
Speaker | Prof. Oliver Brock, Technische Universität Berlin |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The manipulation skills of robots remain vastly inferior to those of humans. Studies of human manipulation reveal a possible reason: humans employ strategies that are fundamentally different from those realized in robots. In contrast to robots, humans extensively use contact with the environment to implement manipulation competence.
In this talk, I will describe a new approach to robot grasping and manipulation, motivated by human manipulation. I will present insights obtained from experiments with human graspers, efforts to build a novel type of robot hand capable of realizing human grasping strategies, and novel planning and perception algorithms for generating appropriate manipulation plans.
Bio: Oliver Brock is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Robotics in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany. He received his Diploma in Computer Science in 1993 from the Technische Universität Berlin and his Master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He also held post-doctoral positions at Rice University and Stanford University. Starting in 2002, he was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, before to moving back to the Technische Universität Berlin in 2009.
The research of Brock's lab, the Robotics and Biology Laboratory, focuses on autonomous mobile manipulation, interactive perception, grasping, manipulation, soft hands, interactive learning, motion generation, and the application of algorithms and concepts from robotics to computational problems in structural molecular biology. He is also the president of the Robotics: Science and Systems foundation.
In this talk, I will describe a new approach to robot grasping and manipulation, motivated by human manipulation. I will present insights obtained from experiments with human graspers, efforts to build a novel type of robot hand capable of realizing human grasping strategies, and novel planning and perception algorithms for generating appropriate manipulation plans.
Bio: Oliver Brock is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Robotics in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany. He received his Diploma in Computer Science in 1993 from the Technische Universität Berlin and his Master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He also held post-doctoral positions at Rice University and Stanford University. Starting in 2002, he was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, before to moving back to the Technische Universität Berlin in 2009.
The research of Brock's lab, the Robotics and Biology Laboratory, focuses on autonomous mobile manipulation, interactive perception, grasping, manipulation, soft hands, interactive learning, motion generation, and the application of algorithms and concepts from robotics to computational problems in structural molecular biology. He is also the president of the Robotics: Science and Systems foundation.
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