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SUMMARY:Manual Robotic Intelligence and the Success of Assistant Robots - 
 Prof. Ángel Pascual Del Pobil
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CONTACT:Toby Howison
DESCRIPTION:Many forecasts predict a dramatic increase in the non-industri
 al robotics market in the coming years. For actual assistant robots to bec
 ome consumer products\, a leap in their manipulation skills is called for.
  If they are intended to help in performing daily tasks at home\, the perc
 eived quality of service requires a successful physical interaction with t
 he environment. This poses a number of challenges such as adaptability\, a
 utonomy\, functionality\, resiliency\, cost-effectiveness\, and safety. I 
 will also look at robots as cyber-physical networked systems and consider 
 the posibilities of cloud computing. I will compare them with robots in on
 line shopping warehouses\, with some lessons learned from our participatio
 n in the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017. 
LOCATION:Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory\, Dept of Engineering\, Trumping
 ton Street
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