"the following is a conversation with Vijay Kumar he's one of the top roboticist in the world a professor at the University of Pennsylvania a Dean Afeni engineering former director of grasp lab or the ..."

"what is the first robot you've ever built over a part of building way back when I was in graduate school I was part of a fairly big project that involved building a very large hexapod suede close to 7..."

"so how difficult is it to make all the motors communicate presumably you have to send signals hundreds of times a second or at least this was not my work but the folks who worked on this wrote what I ..."

"unnecessarily big but at the same time and this is just human psychology somehow bigger means grander you know people never had the same appreciation for nanotechnology or nano devices as they do for ..."

"and you've got to go back to 2011 when we did this now it's actually pretty standard to do these things eight years later but back then it was a big accomplishment so the distributed cooperation is wh..."

"everybody uses you could call it unpiloted and paladin ah but even unpiloted could be radio control could be remotely controls in many different ways and I think the right word is thinking about it is..."

"so when you see these beautiful swarms where there's biological systems of a robots do you sometimes think of them as a single individual living intelligent organism so it's the same as thinking of ou..."

"really want them to be able to re-establish communication with their neighbors you want them to rethink their strategy for group behavior you want them to reorganize and that's where I think a lot of ..."

"insignificant yeah so let's step back at a high low of you the impossible question of what kind of as an overview what kind of autonomous flying vehicles are there in general I think the ones that rec..."

"role for the human and that kind of autonomy is you're kind of implying I don't know what the right word is but it's a little dumb dumber and it could be right so so in the lab right course we could w..."

"right so that's that's true autonomous and we're talking about you may like military applications and drones okay so what else is there you talk about agile autonomous flying robots aerial robots so t..."

"talk has used a math equation which is amazing people should go see what actually it's very interesting because the Ted curator Chris Anderson told me you can't show math and you know I thought about ..."

"interesting the connection there and that's why research is very it's very hard to predict the outcomes and again the federal government spent a ton of money on things that they thought were useful fo..."

"in order to fly the feedback that you get is from onboard sensors and the IMU is an important part of it the IMU tells you what the acceleration is as well as what the angular velocity is and those ar..."

"versatile so if you could step back to a time so I've always known flying robots as the to me it was natural that the quadcopter should fly but when you first started working with it like how surprise..."

"been working on this since 2000 our first designs were well this is way too complicated why not we try to get an omnidirectional flying robots or so our early designs we had eight folders and so these..."

"wanted to do in our little aerial robots and that only happened between 2007 and 2009 in our life yeah and you have to send the signal may hundred times a second so the compute there is everything has..."

"because you have a time budget so the optimal becomes suboptimal but in our lab we we focus on synthesizing smooth trajectory that satisfy all the constraints in other words don't violate any safety c..."

"in the field of machine learning yes and reinforcement learning and the neural network variant of that with deep reinforcement learning DS do you see a role of machine learning in so a lot of the succ..."

"how blades flap when they fly well and that ends up changing how a rotor craft is accelerated in the angular direction this is like micro flaps or something is smooth it's not microfiber you assume th..."

"tremendous plus to get everything right would be awfully tedious so the way we do this is over time we figure out how to adapt to these conditions so we've early on we use the form of learning that we..."

"machine learning on the action side on the other hand I don't know if any examples where there are fielded systems where we actually learn the right behavior outside a single demonstration of successf..."

"know we also have a spin-off company X and technologies that that works underground in mines you go into mines there they're dark they're dirty you fly in a dirty area there's stuff you kick up from b..."

"potential for just solving the problem using computer vision alone but I think the bigger question is can you actually solve or can you actually identify all the corner cases using a sense single sens..."

"more data so I think if you look at wanting accuracy on the x-axis and look at the amount of data on the y-axis I believe that curve is an exponential curve Wow okay it's even hard if it's linear it's..."

"don't think this is viable so talking about driving which is a safety critical application and some aspect the flight is safety critical maybe philosophical question maybe an engineering one what prob..."

"mathematically as well that's true there's another option on the 2g space of platooning or because there's so many obstacles you can connect with those obstacles and all these those exist in the three..."

"delivery flying robots I think there's a lot of potential for the last mile delivery and so in crowded cities I don't know if you go if you go to a place like Hong Kong just crossing the river can tak..."

"limiting numbers so power density is important because for a UAV to take off vertically into the air which most drones do they're not they don't have a runway you consume roughly two and watts per kil..."

"autonomy piece is durable the clean piece I don't think so there's another company that I work with called jet otra they make small jet engines hmm and they can get up to 50 miles an hour very easily ..."

"think about flying cars yeah like the Jetsons The Jetsons yeah so look there are a lot of smart people working on this and you never say something is not possible when you're people like Sebastian Thr..."

"for humans right but there is no general solution to this problem I think if you look at human interaction and how humans interact with robots you know we think of these in three different ways one is..."

"right and I think the robots can do a very good job of modeling humans if you if you really think about the framework that you have a human sitting in a in a cockpit surrounded by sensors all staring ..."

"worry that you know somebody could subvert those technologies and use it in an adversarial setting and robotics is no exception right so I think it's very easy to weaponize robots I think we talked ab..."

"it so we think a lot about that so we have a were doing research on how to defend against swarms for example that's a there's in fact a report by the National Academies on counter UAS technologies thi..."

"maybe we can elect some engineers to office as well on the other side what are the biggest open problems in robotics and you said we're in the early days in some sense what are the problems we would l..."