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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Prof. Steven Waslander is a leading authority on autonomous robotics, including self-driving cars and multirotor drones. He received his B.Sc.E.in 1998 from Queen’s University, his M.S. in 2002 and his Ph.D. in 2007, both from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was recruited to the University of Waterloo from Stanford in 2008, where he led the Autonomoose project, the first self-driving car to be tested on public roads by a Canadian university. In 2018, he joined the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), and founded the Toronto Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (TRAILab).
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Agentic reasoning for robots is rapidly becoming a reality, allowing flexible natural language interaction with human operators and enabling a wide range of navigation, object handling and recall tasks in a variety of settings. In this talk, Prof. Waslander will discuss the ongoing efforts in his lab to make useful agentic robots for the warehouse and outdoor settings, by integrating open world perception with agentic reasoning for reliable open world navigation, and by adding multi-faceted memory – spatial, descriptive and visual – to enable experience recall for temporal question answering. Together, these advances allow a wide variety of spatial, semantic, functional and temporal tasks to be completed by robots without any fine-tuning to specific domains.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Scaffolding around agent needed to make spatial intelligence possible, big gap between primary LLM /MLLM uses and robotics, lots to explore.
Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.
Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.
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