The Robotics Institute

Robots with legs have a number of advantages over those with wheels, such as greater ability to navigate through rough terrain, more flexible manipulation of objects, and fully holonomic control of the body.

This talk will discuss a fast and scalable alternating optimization technique to detect regions of interest (ROIs) in cluttered Web images without labels.

Combining the recent ideas from data-driven appearance transfer techniques of webcam images with a general and theoretically-grounded physically-based illumination model.

Maps are important for both human and robot navigation. Given a route, driving assistance systems brief maps to guide human drivers to their destinations.

Decimeter to centimeter-scale robots will create the opportunity to manipulate, sense, and explore a wide range of environments with greatly reduced cost and expanded capabilities.

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