Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Views in AI is a podcast from AAAI that includes thought-provoking discussions between AI specialists, practitioners, and fans from totally different age teams and backgrounds. Every episode delves into how generational experiences form views on AI, exploring the challenges, alternatives, and moral concerns that include the development of this transformative expertise.

Embodied AI, robotics, notion, and motion with Professor Roberto Martín-Martín

Within the third episode of this new collection from AAAI, host Ella Lan chats to Professor Roberto Martín-Martín about taking a screwdriver to his toys as a toddler, how his analysis focus has developed over time, how totally different generations work together with expertise, making robots for everybody, being impressed by colleagues, recommendation for early-career researchers, and the way machines can improve human capabilities.

About Professor Roberto Martín-Martín:

Roberto Martín-Martín is an Assistant Professor of Pc Science on the College of Texas at Austin, the place his analysis integrates robotics, pc imaginative and prescient, and machine studying to construct autonomous brokers able to perceiving, studying, and appearing in the actual world. His work spans low-level duties like pick-and-place and navigation to complicated actions corresponding to cooking and cellular manipulation, typically drawing inspiration from human cognition and integrating insights from psychology and cognitive science. He beforehand labored as an AI Researcher at Salesforce AI and as a Postdoctoral Scholar on the Stanford Imaginative and prescient and Studying Lab with Silvio Savarese and Fei-Fei Li, main tasks in visuomotor studying, cellular manipulation, and human-robot interplay. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. from Technische Universität Berlin underneath Oliver Brock and a B.S. from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His work has been acknowledged with greatest paper awards at RSS and ICRA, and he serves as Chair of the IEEE/RAS Technical Committee on Cell Manipulation.

Concerning the host

Ella Lan, a member of the AAAI Scholar Committee, is the host of “Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Views in AI.” She is enthusiastic about bringing collectively voices throughout profession phases to discover the evolving panorama of synthetic intelligence. Ella is a scholar at Stanford College tentatively finding out Pc Science and Psychology, and he or she enjoys creating areas the place technical innovation intersects with moral reflection, human values, and societal affect. Her pursuits span training, healthcare, and AI ethics, with a deal with constructing inclusive, interdisciplinary conversations that form the way forward for accountable AI.