Welcoming Realtime Robotics to the Toyota AI Ventures portfolio
By James Kuffner, Chief Technology Officer, Toyota Research Institute
Excerpt:
Visions of the future often feature robots. Whether working in factories, attending to humans, or piloting our cars, they compose a large part of our futurescape. While we imagine how robots could vastly improve our lives, a challenge roboticists inevitably come up against is: how do we build robots that can safely move in our complex world? The field of robot motion planning has emerged with the goal of addressing this challenge.