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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maya Cakmak\nAbstract: AbstractRobots that can assist 
 humans in everyday tasks have the potential to improve people’s quality 
 of life and bring independence to persons with mobility limitations. A key
  challenge in realizing such robots is programming them to meet the unique
  and changing needs of users and to robustly function in their unique envi
 ronments. Most research in robotics targets this challenge by attempting t
 o develop universal or adaptive robotic capabilities. This approach has ha
 d limited success because it is extremely difficult to anticipate all poss
 ible scenarios and use-cases for general-purpose robots or collect massive
  amounts of data that represent each scenario and use-case. Instead\, my r
 esearch aims to develop robots that can be programmed in-context and by en
 d-users after they are deployed\, tailoring it for the specific environmen
 t and user preferences. To that end\, my students and I have been developi
 ng new techniques and tools that allow intuitive and rapid programming of 
 robots to do useful tasks. In this talk I will introduce some of these tec
 hniques and tools\, demonstrate their capabilities\, and discuss some of t
 he challenges in making them work in the hands of potential users and depl
 oy them in the real world.Bio Maya Cakmak is the Robert E. Dining Career 
 Development Associate Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Sc
 ience & Engineering\, University of Washington\, where she directs the Hum
 an-Centered Robotics lab. She received her PhD in Robotics from the Georgi
 a Institute of Technology in 2012\, after which she spent a year as a post
 -doctoral research fellow at Willow Garage\, one of the most influential r
 obotics companies. Her research interests are in human-robot interaction\,
  end-user programming\, and assistive robotics. Her work aims to develop r
 obots that can be programmed and controlled by a diverse group of users wi
 th unique needs and preferences to do useful tasks. Maya's work has been p
 ublished at major Robotics and AI conferences and journals\, demonstrated 
 live in various venues and has been featured in numerous media outlets. To
 ols that she and her students developed are being used by robotics compani
 es like Savioke\, Fetch Robotics\, and Hello Robot. She received an NSF CA
 REER award (2015)\, a Sloan Research Fellowship (2018)\, and Early Career 
 Spotlight Awards at R:SS (2018) and IJCAI (2019).
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:arinya.eller@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Maya Cakmak: Robot programming for all 
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/3446
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