Robotics and autonomy are evolving at a rapid pace, and new technologies are creating new benefits for businesses and society. However, continuing the advancement of uncrewed systems to deliver on these benefits requires advanced computing that supports intelligence, innovation and system security.
The NVIDIA® Jetson™ platform advances this ecosystem with a full suite that is relied on by leading companies to develop once and deploy everywhere. NVIDIA’s hardware, software, simulation, and imaging tools meet the massive computing demands required to train, test, and bring to market edge AI and robotics.
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Date/Time: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST
Achieving Sustainability with Unmanned Systems
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 26 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST
Webinar Description: With growing concern over human impact on the environment, unmanned systems are showing their effects in this area in big ways. From lowering emissions through delivery to inspections and surveying, the use of unmanned systems is making it possible to provide a variety of services while reducing costs, the carbon footprint, and the consumption of natural resources.
Join AUVSI to hear from experts about the impressive ways unmanned systems are impacting sustainability for the better.
Speakers:
Ethicist sketches 4 models of ‘ethics by design’ for AI decision-making, calling for education and collaboration before programming
As we progress further into a world with decision-making machines, pioneering AI ethicist Dr. Paul Root Wolpe urged XPONENTIAL attendees in his keynote Wednesday not to let ethics be an afterthought.
“It has to be ethics by design,” said Wolpe, director of Emory University’s Center for Ethics.
Wolpe, whose career has included 17 years as NASA’s first senior bioethicist, emphasized that humans have a lot of collaborative decisions to make about the values they want machines to consider and how those values should be weighted when they inevitably come into conflict.
Dr. Suzy Young: What Assured Autonomy Means to Me
As the new AUVSI Board Chair, I am extremely excited about our XPONENTIAL 2021 theme of Assured Autonomy. It is catchy, but more importantly, it provokes the question: Exactly what does that mean to me?
Kate Darling Discusses the Future of Human-Robot Interaction
Robotic systems are increasingly moving from behind factory walls into homes, workplaces and other where they interact with humans. What societal challenges will we face in a future with robots as a result?
Over the course of her XPONENTIAL keynote and Q&A session, Kate Darling, PhD, addressed this and other complex questions that must be faced on the pathway to assured autonomy. A leading expert in robotic ethics, Dr. Darling is a research specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, where she investigates social robotics and conducts experimental studies on human-robot interaction.
Singer spotlights increasingly urgent questions for society as AI revolution picks up speed
Futurist Peter Warren Singer drew lessons from the past in Wednesday’s XPONENTIAL 2021 keynote as he challenged his audience to grapple with the overarching questions that the prospect of an unmanned revolution raises for society.
The questions, Singer noted, are increasingly urgent, given that advances toward the revolution have picked up dramatic speed during the pandemic.
He cited a statistic from Stanford University’s AI Index, global investment in artificial intelligence grew 40 percent from 2019 to 2020, compared with growth of only 12 percent from 2018 to 2019. That statistic reflects what average consumers have witnessed in the form of heightened use of remote technologies for things like distance learning, telemedicine and drone delivery.
The Use of AI in Industrial Application Inspection
From small drones for retail sales to larger maritime vessels for public safety uses, specification requirements for manufacturers of unmanned systems vary as widely by the types of systems being made, materials and methods employed, and the sites of production.
TeledyneDALSA, part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, is a leading provider of technologies for industrial growth markets, and understands the challenges US manufacturers face and offers solutions enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to meet these needs throughout the full manufacturing workflow.
Key Pillars for the Unmanned Industry to Achieve Assured Autonomy
As the AUVSI community looks forward to XPONENTIAL 2021, AUVSI hosted an XPONENTIAL Webinar Series to preview the educational programming that will take place virtually and in-person at the event later this year. The week’s programming kicked off with Dr. Cara LaPointe, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy and an expert at the intersection of technology, policy, leadership, and ethics.
