Lex Fridman
Vijay Kumar is one of the top roboticists in the world, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Penn Engineering, former director of GRASP lab, or the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory at Penn that was established back in 1979, 40 years ago. Vijay is perhaps best known for his work in multi-robot systems (or robot swarms) and micro aerial vehicles, robots that elegantly cooperate in flight under all the uncertainty and challenges that real-world conditions present. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.
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Vijay Web: https://www.kumarrobotics.org/
Vijay Twitter: https://twitter.com/vijay_r_kumar
OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:58 – First robot
3:37 – Proudest accomplishments
5:32 – Drone, UAV, aerial robot terminology
6:23 – Biologically inspired robotics
8:34 – Swarm as an individual organism
11:18 – Distributed control
15:04 – Types of flying robots
19:57 – Math in a TED talk
20:29 – What does it take to make a robot fly?
27:09 – Getting from point A to point B
29:22 – Machine learning in robotics
33:53 – Autonomous vehicles
37:05 – Autonomous driving vs autonomous flight
38:52 – Applications of robot swarms
40:12 – Batteries
42:30 – Flying cars
44:03 – Robots and humans
49:48 – Sci-fi inspired fears of robots
52:22 – Open problems in robotics
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I really enjoyed this conversation with Vijay. Here's the outline:
0:00 – Introduction
0:58 – First robot
3:37 – Proudest accomplishments
5:32 – Drone, UAV, aerial robot terminology
6:23 – Biologically inspired robotics
8:34 – Swarm as an individual organism
11:18 – Distributed control
15:04 – Types of flying robots
19:57 – Math in a TED talk
20:29 – What does it take to make a robot fly?
27:09 – Getting from point A to point B
29:22 – Machine learning in robotics
33:53 – Autonomous vehicles
37:05 – Autonomous driving vs autonomous flight
38:52 – Applications of robot swarms
40:12 – Batteries
42:30 – Flying cars
44:03 – Robots and humans
49:48 – Sci-fi inspired fears of robots
52:22 – Open problems in robotics
Vijay is an interesting dude and his comment on designing at a 'higher dimensional whole' should be implemented in all AGI design in particular in artificial cognition to capture amazing advantages. It also highlights how higher levels of human co-operation (as a whole) across all types of humans would lead to a greater AI whole. The other option is to hide safely behind our intellectual gates and avoid sharing with those on the outside. Time is finite, I prefer the former.
Time wasting.when we alreadyhad antigravity.technology available.please Google search emreySmith and cooreygoodey..these two people's can give you the correctanswer.
This was a fascinating episode.
Thanks Lex! Very interesting conversation that gives general audience a sense of where we are at for robotic technology. Certainly will inspire the next generation of engineers!
Thank you Lex, I would likely not appreciate these if u couldn't skip to specific minutes. A1
You do mention every time that you talked to Mr Musk, don't you? -Ajejejeje… There is no humble way to do that.
Check out Vijay's (U of Penn Robotic Course 1 ) robotic course via Coursera. I believe in Udacity, also.
Vijay Kumar class/course must be amazing
Great interview.
12:40 – I am not sure he is right in his interpretation of organisms. Dawkins give a better description in Selfish Gene.
Thanks vijay and lex!
Awesome guest. This dude is sharp and has a total understand.
If takeoff power is the limiting factor, why not just plug it in? When the vehicle reaches the desired height, detach the cable.
Great podcast, Lex. I would suggest just one little refinement.
Keep the bottles out of the frame )
My favorite interview so far. An incredible thinker and speaker, I can see why they made him dean.
Excellent discussion from bright minds. Thanks.
Professor Vijay's swarm idea really stroke me when I first saw that on Ted. It's really a petty there is no open-course of his or some github codes 🙂
Here's the idea for home delivery … Raise the packages in a blimp in the morning, deliver the packages with a mostly gliding robot that drives back to the blimp for the next day.
Its cool
Amazing
And
Outstanding..
"maybe we can elect some engineers to office as well" With all due respect, Lex, before making that wish I think you may want to study some economics, public choice economics in particular, and perhaps some history, e.g., Crisis and Leviathan, which I think is appropriate at this time.