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Introduction to Experimental Robotics CSCI 1108 — Lecture 1 Course Introduction CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 1 / 13

Administrivia Section 1: Vlado Keselj, vlado@cs.dal.ca . Office CS 432 Section 2: Nauzer Kalyaniwalla, nauzer@dal.ca . Office CS 221 Office Hours, Vlado: Tuesday 13:30–15:00/Open Door. Office Hours, Nauzer: Thursday 10:00–11:30/Open Door. This is a lab course. You need to attend 2 lab sessions/week. Labs start next week. Make sure to attend sections you are assigned to. Lab attendance is required. Head T.A. for the course: Mitchell Kane (mkane@cs.dal.ca). Projects: small (10%) and a large (35%) project. Both require a written report. Quizzes: Four in-class quizzes (16%) and a final exam. Important to contribute to group work in every lab. This term we will have peer-evaluations. CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 2 / 13

Course Objectives & Format To learn about Robotics. To experience working in a team. To learn project management. Course is hands-on: Lab tutorials build towards projects. Projects done in Lab time. To have fun. CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 3 / 13

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What is a Robot? Robot: Word coined by Czech writer Karel Capek, from Roboti in Czech for “hard labour” in a play: Rassum’s Universal Robots. Roboti in Czech meaning “hard labour” - suggested by the brother of the writer. ‘Robot’ is a very general term: Could refer to software robots, Mostly business/office automation. See: https://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/2016/03/13/an-introduction-to-robotic-process-automation/ CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 5 / 13

What is a Robot? The reality: Papero from NEC Most people think: https://robotnews.wordpress.com/2006/04/01/the-childcare-robot-papero/ The video of Papero is in Japanese, but watch between (1:10 and 1:40): https://www.necplatforms.co.jp/solution/papero_i/ CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 6 / 13

What is a Robot? There are swarm robots: Typically 100’s of programmable, autonomous , self-organizing units. https://player.vimeo.com/video/103329200? color=1cafeb&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&player_id=103329200&autoplay=1 Future military applications are a matter of time. 1024 Collaborative robots: Autonomous vehicles are coming on the scene: A video from Waymo: Google’s self driving project & another from Tesla: https://youtu.be/tlThdr3O5Qo & https://digg.com/video/ watch-a-fully-autonomous-tesla-drive-itself-around-town-and-find-itself-a-parking-spot CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 7 / 13

What is a Robot? Industrial Robots: The KR1000 Titan , from Kuka Robotics can manipulate up to 1000 Kg. Space Robots - Destined for the ISS: CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 8 / 13

What a Robot is: The small sample of robots above share the property of autonomy : “a robot is a physically embodied artificially intelligent agent that can take actions that have effects on the physical world,” says roboticist Anca Dragan of UC Berkeley. From Wired: 08.24.2017 What Is a Robot? The wiki article on robots is worth reading. So, robots: Are able to sense their environment and react to changes. May be able to manipulate objects: Needs to sense the geometry of said object. May be mobile - hence can navigate. In fact motion requires: Planning, Perception, Spatial representation. Robotics is at the nexus of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. This brings intelligent behaviour in the natural world. CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 9 / 13

Robotics in Industry https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-new-generation-of-robots-for-manufacturing-1433300884 CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 10 / 13

The Robots are Coming.....soon The hype has not kept up with progress: For Elon Musk, the driverless car is always right around the corner. At an investor day event last month focused on Tesla’s autonomous driving technology, the CEO predicted that his company would have a million cars on the road next year with self-driving hardware “at a reliability level that we would consider that no one needs to pay attention.” If there are a million Tesla robo-taxis functioning on the road in 2020, I will eat them. Perhaps @rodneyabrooks will eat half with me? - Kai-Fu Lee ( https://twitter.com/kaifulee ) CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 11 / 13

The Robots are Coming.....soon “At best, they may be able to create a system that functions under certain limited scenarios. It will not be fully autonomous in 2020 or anytime in the next several years” - Sam Abuelsamid, research analyst for Navigant. Chris Urmson, the former leader of Google’s self-driving car project, once hoped that his son wouldn’t need a driver’s license because driverless cars would be so plentiful by 2020. Now the CEO of the self-driving startup Aurora, Urmson says that driverless cars will be slowly integrated onto our roads“over the next 30 to 50 years.” CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 12 / 13

But, when the Big Dog gets involved... https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/ google-adds-to-its-menagerie-of-robots.html?_r=0 CSCI 1108 Lecture 1 13 / 13