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William Mong Distinguished Lecture - “When will we have intelligent robots?”
by Professor Jitendra Malik
Speaker: Professor Jitendra Malik
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley, and
VP, Robotics Research at FAIR, Meta Inc.
Abstract:
For intelligent robots to become ubiquitous, we need to “solve" locomotion, navigation and manipulation at sufficient reliability in widely varying environments. Learning approaches have been responsible for most recent advances, but they are held up by the lack of “big data” at the scale available in language and vision. In my talk, I will showcase recent research results on all three tasks. In locomotion, following past work on quadrupeds, we now have demonstrations of humanoid walking in a variety of challenging environments. In navigation, we pursued the task of “Go to Any Thing” – a robot, on entering a newly rented Airbnb, should be able to find objects such as TV sets or potted plants. In manipulation we studied dexterous dynamic tasks such as in-hand rotation and twisting off caps of bottles. RL in simulation and sim-to-real have been workhorse technologies for us, assisted by a few technical innovations. For dexterous manipulation, multimodal perception is key – vision, touch and proprioception. The ability to exploit visual imitation would go a long way to solving the big data problem, and we have made major progress on the prerequisite steps of 4D reconstruction of human bodies, hands, and manipulable objects.
Language: English
Mode: Mixed
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join.
Seats for on-site participants are limited.
Interested parties please register through the link: https://shorturl.at/K9e27
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