[SGVHAK] Robotics von Karman lecture at JPL (Thursday) and PCC (Friday)

[Lan Dang]

Hi all,

This group might be interested in this month's von Karman lecture, which will be at JPL's von Karman auditorium on this Thursday at 7pm, and at PCC's Vosloh Forum on this Friday at 7pm.



Robots to the Rescue!: JPL’s RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help

Speaker: Brett Kennedy - Supervisor, Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group, JPL

April 23 & 24JPL has been engaged in several programs over the last 
couple of years that have developed new robots and software that can 
help out in terrestrial disaster scenarios or hazardous environments. In particular, the RoboSimian and Surrogate sibling robots have been 
designed to move through human environments after humans have had to 
evacuate and execute key manipulation tasks that will ameliorate the 
situation.  RoboSimian will be put to the test against an international 
field of robotic competitors at the DARPA Robotics Challenge this June 
5-6 at the Pomona Fairplex. 



They do the live webcast on Thursday via UStream, and the archived video is available a day or two later.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.php?year=2015&month=4 


Lan