What Happens When Robots Work Together
You have dedicated your career to researching collective intelligence. How do you think about teams of robots working together? Where does that begin and how does it work? We start with a single robot. We move to small teams of robots working together. And at the same time, we develop the frameworks that are required […]
What is State Estimation in Robotics?
What excites you about the work you do with state estimation at Shield AI? Pushing the envelope. GPS-denied navigation and mapping have been an active research topic for years. Researchers have made great strides, and, building on top of that work, we are able to demonstrate really compelling autonomous capabilities. Of course, there is still […]
What is DevOps & Why Does it Matter?
The word DevOps, short for Developer Operations, has become an overloaded and overused term. If you ask a sampling of your colleagues what it actually means, you’ll probably get vastly different answers. This post aims to clarify some of the confusion from our vantage point here at Shield AI. First and foremost, DevOps is a […]
What is the Role of Trust in Robotics?
How did you approach the experience of building GAMS/MADARA? I came from a middleware group called the Distributed Object Computing group at Vanderbilt. My training was primarily in middleware, but I had a real passion for AI. I wanted to influence how we develop distributed AI, and how we represent and command a swarm of […]
Robotic Teams and Reliability
You’ve conducted extensive research on man-machine collaboration. Why have you chosen this focus? The concept of man-machine collaboration is very intuitive; we’re pairing a set of robotic systems with one or more people. The barebones tech behind connecting man to machine and machines to other machines is well-studied. I think the hard part about effective […]
What is the Role of Hardware in AI Systems?
At Shield AI, we focus on addressing our customer’s greatest challenges through the application of artificial intelligence to robotics. We make machines that see, understand, and reason about the world so that they can team up to go where other machines, and people, cannot in order to collect and share life-saving information. Solving problems from […]
