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  Subject:   Humanoid Robots and Social Interaction

  Sponsor:   Broad Area Colloquium For AI-Geometry-Graphics-Robotics-Vision

  Speaker:   Rodney Brooks

  Date:   Wednesday, May 3, 2000

  Time:   4:15pm - 5:15pm

  Location:   TCseq201, Lecture Hall B [look for it in a campus map]

  Event URL:   http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/spring00/abst-brooks.html

  Sponsor URL:   http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/

  Costs:   0.

  Contact:   bac-coordinators@cs.stanford.edu

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    Broad Area Colloquium For AI-Geometry-Graphics-Robotics-Vision
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		Humanoid Robots and Social Interaction

			    Rodney Brooks
			   Director, AI lab
				 MIT

			Wednesday, May 3, 2000
	       refreshments 4:05PM, talk begins 4:15PM
		       TCseq201, Lecture Hall B
	     http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/

			       Abstract

Robots with humanoid form are a tool for investigating and validating
cognitive theories. We are building a number of humanoid robots (Cog,
Kismet, Coco, plus partial systems K2, M4, Lazlo, etc.) and use four
guiding principles: embodiment, multi-modal integration, development,
and social interaction. With these principles but without any
kinematic or dynamic models, and without any central system with
symbolic representations we are able to get our robots to carry out
complex manipulation tasks, and interact with people using the same
social cues that people have evolved over millions of years. Our
systems are modeled on how humans and animals achieve the same sorts
of performance.

About the Speaker

Rodney Brooks is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and
is the Chairman and CTO of iRobot Corporation. He received a PhD in
Computer Science from Stanford in 1981, was on the research staff at
CMU and MIT, then on the CS faculty at Stanford, and joined the MIT
faculty in 1984. He develoepd many of the key ideas of behavior-based
robots which are finding applications from consumer products to oil
production to planetary exploration. His current research focuses on
humanoid robots, models of development of cognition, and social
interaction between people and robots.

 Event history: Submitted by aarati on 28-Apr-2000;

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