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Wrapping up 2025
Slowly getting ready for the New Year. I thought it would be time to reflect on the past year. It has been an interesting year with many activities. I was on half-time leave from UCSD April 2025 - March 2026 to be the inaugural Temasek Fellow. I’m still working with a number of venture capital funds. For the most part I disengaged from other companies such as Calibrate Ventures, … Still an advisor to Robo-Global which by now is owned by VettaFi and TMX.
The 19th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics will take place in Santa Fe, NM 6-10 July 2025. The event is organized by Henrik Christensen, Oussama Khatib and Carlos Nieto. Check out the web site for details
40th Anniversary of ISRR in Long Beach, CA organized by Gaurav Sukhatme, Daniela Rus, Oussama Khatib and Henrik Christensen. An amazing celebration of robotics research from science to systems
It has been a year in the making, but finally the 2024 version of the ``US National Robotics Roadmap’’ is ready for public consumption. With an amazing team of collaborators from across the nation we have generated an update to the document. It takes a village to do the update. We had 100+ white papers submitted with input about research, business cases and opportunities. The roadmap is based on three workshops in Philadelphia, Austin and Phoenix. The world is rapidly changing. Artificial Intelligence is gaining traction and robotics is the embodiment of these systems. Progress in natural language system and computer vision allows design of easier to use systems and machine learning add a new dimension to learning by demonstration and robust autonomy over time.
The roadmap outlines - mega-trends (how the world is changing), major business opportunities, obstacles to progress, and issues to be addressed in terms of research, training, and translation.
We gratefully acknowledge the support by host universities, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Engineering Visioning Research Alliance (ERVA). Obviously, this work would not have been possible without the broad participation from the community.
The 2024 roadmap is available from our web site and shortly also from the CCC and ERVA websites.
