From Research to Reality

Intelligent Robots have made huge strides over the last 35 years. The first autonomous robot, Shakey, was developed at SRI in the late 60's and is now in the Computer History Museum. Shakey was connected by radio links to huge mainframe computers, and would take hours to do simple reasoning and planning tasks. Now there is a semi-autonomous vehicle exploring the surface of Mars and teams are developing totally autonomous vehicles to race across the Nevada desert to Las Vegas. The robotics panel features an array of experts who will talk about their current projects.