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Modern Robotics: Resistance is Futile.3:00 pm July 18, 2002
Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
For well over fifteen years Carl Leonard has watched the development and evolution of robotics technology. This electrical and computer engineer has built homemade award-winning mobile robots out of commodity components from his basement workshop. In this talk, Carl shares his insights on the development and capabilities of today's modern robotic systems. Take a look at how student competitions are contributing to the development of robotic systems. How have biological systems influenced the design of modern robots? What can the biosciences learn from these developments? What efforts are being made to connect machines to humans with prosthetics and other enhancements? What implications does this merging of human and machine have for the future? Is this Science or Sci-Fi? Join the musings of this robotics enthusiast as he ushers you into the 21st Century with an overview of the progress of intelligent mechanisms and predictions of what's to come.
Carl Leonard, Roboticist
Carl Leonard has been a robotics enthusiast from a very early age. As one of the youngest participants to win the state science fair, his learning mobile robotic pet won him a trip to the International Science Fair in Puerto Rico. As a freshman in college he coordinated and maintained George Mason's robotics lab. Graduating with a degree in in computer and electrical engineering, he was hired as an adjunct at George Mason, where he taught a course on the design principals of mobile robots, and is invited to speak regularly, on learning machines and computer architecture. His projects have been profiled in newspapers and on TV, and have won numerous awards including an AFCEA undergraduate research grant, and special acknowledgment from MIT, NASA, the Army, and Navy. At present, Carl is a computer security specialist, a hacker for hire, where he bides his time until he can create the next generation of thinking machines.
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