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Ken Goldberg SEAS Seminar at Harvard

07 Feb, 2019

Ken Goldberg SEAS Seminar at Harvard

BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg gave a Special Robotics Seminar, "The New Wave in Robot Grasping" for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard. The event, open to the public, was on February 6th.

From the event description:

Despite 50 years of research, robots remain remarkably clumsy, limiting their reliability for warehouse order fulfillment, robot-assisted surgery, and home decluttering. A "New Wave" of research considers hybrid methods that combine analytic models with stochastic sampling and Deep Learning models.

Read more about the event here