What's Next For Robotics: In The Field, Inferencing On The Edge - AI Trends

Robots are a key application for AI and in addition to an excellent plenary talk by Julie Shah of MIT, a whole track was dedicated to AI in robotics applications. Dan Kara, VP of robotics and intelligent systems for WTWH Media, outlined some of the challenges in building robots--not chatbots, he clarified, but robots that act in the physical world. "It seems like every year it's just around the corner," he said, but this year the tailwinds are picking up. Robotics is the foundation for much of our work thus far in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Kara argued. "It's only been fairly recently that you've started getting artificial intelligence or machine learning moving off into different labs," he said.