Robotics Research in Norway

Using Robotics to Achieve Meaningful Research Skills in Robotics

In recent years there has been a significant decline in the number of college students choosing majors in computer science or technology related fields. Although this trend is beginning to turn around at the undergraduate level, there remains disparity in the number of under represented minority students who earn graduate degrees as compared to majority students. Additionally, within the United...

Karlsruhe Surgical Robotics Research

Since eight years a group for surgical robotics research is established at the Institute for Process Control and Robotics (IPR). Starting with the Collaborative Research Center 414, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), our reseach interests cover all topics concerning support of surgical interventions. A basic work flow from patient data acquisition to intraoperative supporting syste...

Aspects of Japanese Robotics Research

Robotics appears to be a very lively and fruitful field of research in Japan. Some of the research topics cannot be found elsewhere at all, and some are significantly advanced. Discussing this impression, a collection of laboratories is introduced with their most outstanding topics. This report is based on the notes of trips through Japanese laboratories in February, September 1997, and January...

Research Issues I N Robotics

The Beginnings of Robotics Research

This paper reviews the early goals, perspectives and accomplishments of robotics research. I will focus on uncertainty and structured versus unstructured environments. For perspective I will sketch a history of the beginnings and evolution of robotics research. The main ideas are: • Robotics research began with teleoperation in the 40’s and 50’s. • Uncertainty was a central theme of robotics re...