Where: Building 1, East Lobby
Description
Underwater exploration is extremely challenging and highly demanding for human divers, due to the limited depths they can explore and short time durations they can spend underwater. To solve this issue, KAUST and Stanford together with Meka Robotics have been collaborating for past three years on an ambitious project to design and build a radical new underwater robotic platform to serve as a robotic avatar diver. This robot enables scientists and engineers to carry out their research and work safely and efficiently, while comfortably operating from a human-friendly environment. Despite the significant advances developments in underwater robotics have seen in monitoring, inspection, and mapping, comprehensive exploration in marine habitats requires robots to physically interact with the marine environment, enabling them to handle delicate samples, place sensors, build structures and use tools. O2, our novel oceanic explorer, was designed not only to interact with the marine environment, but also to relay that interaction to the human user. This is accomplished by establishing an immersive human-robot interface allowing the user to guide robot actions and receives visual and tactile feedback. Throughout our presentation the audience will be able to interact with the robot in simulation and participate in transcontinental operations initiated from KAUST on the actual robot diving at Stanford.
Oussama Khatib
Oussama Khatib received his Doctorate degree from Sup’Aero, Toulouse, France, in 1980. He is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work on advanced robotics focuses on methodologies and technologies in human-centered robotics including humanoid control architectures, human motion synthesis, interactive dynamic simulation, haptics, and human- friendly robot design. He is Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics series, STAR. He co-edited the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which received the PROSE Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer. He is the President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). Professor Khatib is a recipient of the Japan Robot Association (JARA) Award in Research and Development. In 2010, he received the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation for his fundamental pioneering contributions in robotics research, visionary leadership, and life-long commitment to the field. He received the 2013 IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his vision and leadership for the Robotics and Automation Society, in establishing and sustaining conferences, publishing influential monographs and handbooks and training and mentoring the next generation of leaders in robotics education and research. In 2014, he received the IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation.
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