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SUMMARY:CIS - Colloquium -  by Prof Daniela Rus Director of MIT Computer S
 cience & Artificial Intelligence Lab
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Daniela Rus\nTitle: One Robot for Every Task\n\nAbstract
 :\nThe digitization of practically everything coupled with advances in mac
 hine learning\, the automation of knowledge work\, and advanced robotics p
 romises a future with democratized use of machines and wide-spread use of 
 AI\, robots and customization. While the last 60 years have defined the fi
 eld of industrial robots\, and empowered hard bodied robots to execute com
 plex assembly tasks in constrained industrial settings\, the next 60 years
  could be ushering in our time with Pervasive robots that come in a divers
 ity of forms and materials\, helping people with physical and cognitive ta
 sks. However\, the pervasive use of machines remains a hard problem. How c
 an we accelerate the creation of machines customized to specific tasks? Wh
 ere are the gaps that we need to address in order to advance the bodies an
 d brains of machines? How can we develop scalable and trustworthy reasonin
 g engines?\nIn this talk I will discuss recent developments in machine lea
 rning and robotics\, focusing on about how computation can play a role in 
 (1) developing Neural Circuit Policies\, an efficient approach to more int
 erpretable machine learning engines\, (2) making machines more capable of 
 reasoning in the world\, (3) making custom robots\, and (4) making more in
 tuitive interfaces between robots and people.\n\nBio:\nDaniela Rus is the 
 Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Com
 puter Science\, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligen
 ce Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT\, and Deputy Dean of Research in the Schwarzm
 an College of Computing at MIT. Rus' research interests are in robotics an
 d artificial intelligence. The key focus of her research is to develop the
  science and engineering of autonomy. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fel
 low\, a fellow of ACM\, AAAI and IEEE\, a member of the National Academy o
 f Engineering\, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a
  senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation. She is the recipient of the 
 Engelberger Award for robotics. She earned her PhD in Computer Science fro
 m Cornell University.\n\n\nThe Center for Intelligent Systems at EPFL (CIS
 ) is a collaboration among IC\,ENAC\, SB\, SV and STI that brings together
  researchers working on different aspects of Intelligent Systems. In June 
 2020\, CIS has launched its CIS Colloquia featuring invited notable speake
 rs.\nMore info https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/cis/center-for-intell
 igent-systems-cis/events/colloquia-2/prof-daniela-rus/\n 
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