The workplace of the not-too-distant future will be buzzing with robots and drones. What will be the impact of the arrival of increasingly smart, agile machines?
Brandon Basso earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently leads R & D at 3D Robotics. His past autonomous vehicle research involved controlling teams of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) performing collaborative search/track... Read More →
Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT.
He is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics). He is also a Founder, former Board Member (1990 - 2011) and former CTO (1990 - 2008) of iRobot C... Read More →
Jonathan Downey is the Founder and CEO of Airware, a San Francisco-based startup that is enabling the rapid growth of the commercial drone industry by building the platform for commercial drone development and operation. Jonathan began working on small unmanned aerial systems (UAS... Read More →
Julie Shah is an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She previously worked at Boeing Research and Technology on robotics applications... Read More →
Wednesday September 24, 2014 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
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