From: hal@finney.org
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 15:35:37 MDT
Here are excerpts from a press release by JPL about an event timed to
coincide with the opening of the AI movie. You can submit questions
for their webcast on robotics via the web page.
Hal
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: IT'S MORE THAN A MOVIE
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will talk
about the real artificial intelligence work that takes place
at NASA in a live webcast, scheduled for June 29, 2001, at 11
a.m. Pacific Time.
The webcast will feature answers to questions submitted
in advance via e-mail to our webcast producer.
A link to the live webcast and the producer's e-mail are
located at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/ai .
Dr. Edward Tunstel, lead robotics engineer on the FIDO
rover, a test model for the twin NASA rovers that will go to
Mars in 2003, will speak about rover autonomy of the past and
future. Dr. Larry Matthies, Supervisor, Machine Vision Group,
will talk about his work on machines with human vision
capability. Barbara Engelhardt and Russell Knight of JPL's
Artificial Intelligence Software Group, will answer questions
on use of artificial intelligence software on future missions.
...
Scientists envision a future colony of robots exploring a
planet's surface. A whole fleet of ground rovers, aerovers
with flying ability and burrowing, worm-like probes may make
up a cooperative mission. These intelligent robots would work
together and share data to make multiple science measurements.
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