Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1109/mra.2024.3388285
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) recognizes and congratulates the following individuals for their outstanding accomplishments and service to RAS and to the robotics and automation community. They will be honored during an award ceremony to be held during the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024) in May. Please join us in congratulating these outstanding recipients!
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Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1109/mra.2024.3388270
Andra Keay
Jensen Huang chose humanoid robots as a showcase of his vision at NVIDIA Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) Technology Conference (GTC) 2024 ( Figure 1 ), which might surprise those who believe that the commercialization of humanoids is still a long way off. However, there are at least 30 humanoid robot companies, as of the start of 2024, with pilots or customers or that are planning to commercialize by 2025.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1109/mra.2024.3388271
Patrick J. Martin
Robotics and automation technology has experienced an incredible growth period in the past decade. The barrier for entry across many economic sectors has been reduced due to cheaper computing, sensing, and actuation coupled with advances in machine learning algorithms and open source tools. Many companies have sprouted up to create myriad components and robotic systems that solve different domain problems. However, managing the complexity of a robotic system is becoming more challenging as all of these hardware and software components lack standards to ensure that integration works smoothly. Several years ago, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society established the Standing Committee for Standards Activities (SCSA; https://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards ) to develop multiple standards that promote common definitions and measures that support the growing robotics and automation market.
{"title":"Standards Update: Robot Task Representation Standard and User Guide Development [Standards]","authors":"Patrick J. Martin","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3388271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3388271","url":null,"abstract":"Robotics and automation technology has experienced an incredible growth period in the past decade. The barrier for entry across many economic sectors has been reduced due to cheaper computing, sensing, and actuation coupled with advances in machine learning algorithms and open source tools. Many companies have sprouted up to create myriad components and robotic systems that solve different domain problems. However, managing the complexity of a robotic system is becoming more challenging as all of these hardware and software components lack standards to ensure that integration works smoothly. Several years ago, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society established the Standing Committee for Standards Activities (SCSA; <uri xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">https://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards</uri>\u0000) to develop multiple standards that promote common definitions and measures that support the growing robotics and automation market.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141524838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1109/mra.2024.3354014
Stephen Balakirsky, Paulo Gonçalves, Lei Yang
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1109/mra.2024.3353538
Yi Guo
We have witnessed extraordinary advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023. Whether it’s composing essays or generating pictures based on written descriptions, it appears that machines could eventually achieve general intelligence matching, even exceeding humans on some tasks. But those tasks do not include robotic ones yet, which require physical skills and the integration of perception and actuation. A breakthrough was made in robotics in that an autonomous system won against human world champions in first-person-view drone racing [1] . Using an innovative hybrid learning-based method, the robot’s onboard perception system translated high-dimensional visual and inertial information to low-dimensional representation, and a control policy was trained that integrated perception and control commands. The autonomous system achieved the fastest race time against three drone-racing world champions. The progress is encouraging, and we hope to see more autonomous robots that can reach human-level abilities and even compete against humans in sports (such as soccer or tennis) and other desirable tasks (such as cooking or folding clothes).
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1109/mra.2024.3352439
Elizabeth Fields, Chloe Ho, Min Jie Kim, Zixuan Wu, Brian Plancher
Computer science (CS) and engineering research both have large and well-documented gender diversity gaps [1] , [2] , [3] . In fact, previous studies have reported that the overall CS female author ratio (FAR) is only in the range of 16%–26% [1] , [3] , [4] . As shown in Table 1 , recent evidence shows that this number varies significantly among CS subfields, ranging from as high as 42% in CS education to as low as 8% in theory and algorithms [1] , [4] . Furthermore, while recent work has shown that the diversity in conference leadership has increased substantially over recent years [5] and that the state of gender diversity in marine robotics ranges from 7% to 44% across various countries in Europe [6] , there has not been a comprehensive study analyzing the current state of gender diversity across the broader overall field of robotics.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1109/mra.2024.3354522
Torsten Kroeger, Brian Gerkey, Paul Goldberg, Todd Murphey, Frank Park
Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.
提供从业人员和研究人员感兴趣的社会信息，包括新闻、评论或技术说明。
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