Professor Kevin H. Knuth
Director of the Cyberphysics Laboratory at the University at Albany
President of Autonomous Exploration Inc.
As we become increasingly reliant on remote science platforms to explore both Earth's oceans and our Solar system,
the ability to autonomously and intelligently perform data collection becomes critical. I will provide a brief overview of the history of the idea of robots, and describe the advances and discoveries that our robot explorers have made in ocean and space exploration. In addition, I will discuss a new paradigm for automated scientific discovery and give a demonstration of a robot that performs its own experiments. Even more fun... our robots are some of the most intelligent LEGO creations in existence!
