1. Research Issues at the Boundary of AI and Robotics
M. Bernardine Dias
Associate Research Professor

2. As robotic and AI systems advance to the stage where they must effectively perform complex operations in unstructured and dynamic environments in a variety of real-world settings while meaningfully interacting in useful ways with a diversity of biological and technological agents, the boundaries between AI and Robotics necessarily fade.
What do you see as particular research areas that stand to benefit more from the collaboration of AI and robotics researchers?
What specific problems do you feel lie at the boundary between AI and robotics?
How can these be tackled, and the boundary pushed?
Boundaries

4. Nothing unites people more than shared rage against something or someone. - Stephen G. Fritz
Identify challenging important problems that plague the world
Invest significant resources and provide opportunities and pathways for real impact
2015 is an opportune year
What particular activities could bring these communities of researchers together?
Do you have ideas for the way the various stakeholders such as funding agencies, professional organizations and individual researchers should play a role?
Activities

5. Millennium Development Goals

6. Challenge Accessible Smart World
Enable people with different disabilities to accomplish a variety of complex tasks, such as international travel, independently and safely
Do you have recommendatio ns such as possible challenge problems, or task-force activities which could solidify various efforts??
Challenge