Federico Pecora talks about AI and how the computer decides what to do
and when to do it. Host Per Sjöborg, Robots in Depth #39 supported by
https://carbon.ai & http://www.aptomica.com
Federico finds many interesting research problems combining AI and
robotics. Being out in the real world challenges the AI algorithms and
makes real physical tasks possible.
Federico talks about working on AI and service robotics. In this area
he has worked on planning, especially focusing on why a particular
goal is the one that the robot should work on. To make robots as
useful and user friendly as possible, he works on inferring the goal
from the robot’s environment so that the user does not have to tell
the robot everything.
Federico has also worked with AI robotics planning in industry to
optimize results. Managing the relative importance of tasks is another
challenging area there. In this context, he works on automating not
only a single robot for its goal, but an entire fleet of robots for
their collective goal. We get to hear about how these techniques are
being used in warehouse operations, in mines and in agriculture.
Federico discusses how important the co-operation between roboticists and AI specialists is. It can sometimes be challenging, but when it works it yields very interesting questions and results.
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