Speaker Series: "Consumer Robotics" with Dr. Paul Oh

The lines between consumer electronics and consumer robotics is blurry. For example, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the list of robotics company exhibits has grown to over 400. Furthermore driverless cars, drones, exo-skeletons, 3D printers and virtual-reality systems are examples of robots that have a consumer focus. 

This talk highlights observations of this phenomena. This is given in the context of an Age of Acceleration characterized by deep learning, cloud-computing, and artificial intelligence. The talk serves to suggest pathways for roboticists and their design and development endeavors.

Join the Minnesota Robotics Institute in welcoming our second guest in the Speaker Series, Dr. Paul Oh, a Lincy Professor of Unmanned Aerial Systems from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

About Dr. Paul Oh

Prof. Paul Oh joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) as the Lincy Professor of Unmanned Aerial Systems in 2014.  He is the founder and director of the Drones and Autonomous Systems Lab (DASL).  Prior, he was in Drexel University's Mechanical Engineering Department from 2000-2014. 

Dr. Oh received mechanical engineering degrees from McGill (B. Eng 1989), Seoul National (M. Sc. 1992), and Columbia (PhD 1999) universities.  He is a Fellow of NASA (2002), Naval Research Lab (2003), Boeing (2006) and ASME (2012).  He received research (2004 NSF CAREER) and teaching (2005 SAE Ralph Teetor Award for Engineering Education Excellence) awards and authored over 150 publications and 3 books.  From 2008-2010, he served as an NSF Program Director managing the robotics research portfolio.  From 2012-2015 he led Team DRC-Hubo and Team DRC-Hubo@UNLV for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.  Today, he serves as General Chair for IEEE IROS 2020 (IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems) Conference.