Draft slides for OU residential school talk on robotics...

1. Who's Driving?
The Current Future
of Robotics
August 2015
Tony Hirst
Department of Communication
and Systems
The Open University
tony.hirst@open.ac.uk

4. “The robot was
designed to be a
talking travel
companion and could
toss out factoids and
carry limited
conversation.
“A GPS in the robot
tracked its location,
and a camera
randomly snapped
photos about every
20 minutes to
document its travels.”

8. “Real” vs.
“software”
robots

11. So the future
remains bright
for (mechanical)
engineers?

12. Autonomous
Vehicles

14. MoreonOpenLearn

18. “It is the first
accident involving
one of Google’s
fleet of self-driving
vehicles to have
resulted in injury.”
“The Google car was
stationary in a queue
of traffic when it was
hit by the vehicle
travelling at 17mph,
according to an
accident report filed
by Google.”

23. Service
Robots

26. Logistics

33. Regulatory
Brakes…

40. Who’s
Paying?

46. http://www.automotivemanufacturingsolution
.com/focus/how-an-i3-is-born

48. Collaborative
Robots

54. Human robot collaboration

62. Some Other Google Acquisitions

66. (Self-?)
Regulation

70. So who’ll decide the future
of robotics?
YOU WILL