Robotics Seminar - Nancy Pollard

— 3:30pm

Location:
In Person - Tepper Building 1403

Speaker:
NANCY POLLARD , Professor Robotics Institute and Computer Science DepartmentCarnegie Mellon University
https://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/

Bringing Dexterity to Robot Hands in the Real World

Dexterous manipulation is a grand challenge of robotics, and fine manipulation skills are required for many robotics applications that we envision.   

In this overview talk, I will discuss my view of some major factors that contribute to dexterity and discuss how we can incorporate them into our robots and systems.

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Nancy Pollard is a Professor in the Robotics Institute and the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where she developed grasp and manipulation planning algorithms for the Stanford/JPL and Utah/MIT dexterous hands. Prof. Pollard spent the next few decades studying human and robot dexterity, with emphasis on bringing human manipulation strategies with performance guarantees to humanoid robots with dexterous hands.  She received the NSF CAREER award for research on “Quantifying Humanlike Enveloping Grasps”,  the Okawa Research Grant for "Studies of Dexterity for Computer Graphics and Robotics," and was a recent recipient of an NSF Convergence Accelerator award for "Bio-Inspired Design of Robot Hands for Use-Driven Dexterity."   She has led the development of several generations of dexterous soft robotic hands, is a founder of FuturHand Robotics and leads the CMU Foam Hands Laboratory. 

Seminars are record (with speaker permission) and accessible here. 
 

For More Information:
kbuss@andrew.cmu.edu

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