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The Promise of Robotics

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Partner:: Compass Summit
Location:: Terranea Resort
Palos Verdes, CA
Event Date:: 10.25.11
Speaker:: Steve Cousins
Tags:: robots; Robotics

Summary: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF JOBS AND THE WORKFORCE

The Promise of Robotics

Steve Cousins, President and Chief Executive Officer, Willow Garage

Compass Summit, a forum for true interaction and exchange, examines some of today's most pressing problems through the lens of global citizenship, recognizing that human ingenuity is an unlimited resource. Guided by NPR's Ira Flatow, an intimate group of some of the world's best thinkers and doers convened along the rugged Palos Verdes coastline on Oct 23-26, 2011 at Terranea Resort to engage in meaningful conversation, ask questions, and challenge ideas -- we invite you to join in the conversation.

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Steve Cousins

Steve Cousins is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur and innovator with a strong track record for managing research and development organizations and realizing a significant return on investment.

Prior to joining Willow Garage, Steve was the senior manager of the User-Focused Systems Research Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center, one of the top human-computer interaction research groups in the world. Earlier, Steve managed the Advanced Systems Development Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

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01.: Introduction

00 min 31 sec

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02.: What Is Willow Garage?

02 min 40 sec

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03.: State of the Art Robots

03 min 05 sec

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04.: Potential of Robots

02 min 07 sec

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05.: How Robots Impact STEM

02 min 54 sec

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06.: How Robots Impact Jobs

03 min 49 sec

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07.: How Robots Can Help the Disabled

02 min 36 sec

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08.: Robots: Good or Evil?

03 min 06 sec

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09.: Q1: Who Is Responsible for Robot's Actions?

01 min 27 sec

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10.: Q2: Safety of Self-Driving Cars?

00 min 43 sec

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11.: Q3: Open Source Robotics?

01 min 31 sec

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12.: Q4: Robotics and Education?

00 min 57 sec

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Steve Cousins: Robots for Humanity

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Steve Cousins, president and CEO of Willow Garage, expands on how robotics can benefit the disabled. Cousins explains how robots can assist with everyday tasks such as shaving and itching, as well as autonomous tasks. "This sets a course for the direction of robotics," he says.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

robotics: Design, construction, and use of machines (robots) to perform tasks done traditionally by human beings. Robots are widely used in such industries as automobile manufacture to perform simple repetitive tasks, and in industries where work must be performed in environments hazardous to humans. Many aspects of robotics involve artificial intelligence; robots may be equipped with the equivalent of human senses such as vision, touch, and the ability to sense temperature. Some are even capable of simple decision making, and current robotics research is geared toward devising robots with a degree of self-sufficiency that will permit mobility and decision-making in an unstructured environment. Today's industrial robots do not resemble human beings; a robot in human form is called an android.; robotics on britannica.com

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