Building a Robotics Hub in San Diego
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UC San Diego is looking to build a world-class robotics hub in San Diego by leveraging its strengths in engineering, research funding, and partnerships with industry. The university has over 20 robotics research areas across different departments and over $40 million in annual robotics research funding. It aims to grow the robotics workforce through new education programs and common lab spaces bringing different groups together. San Diego is seen as primed to become a major robotics hub like the Bay Area due to its industry, universities, and supportive environment for partnerships and startups. Over 70 robotics companies have already formed in Southern California.
Building a Robotics Hub in San Diego
- 1. 1 Albert P. Pisano, Dean 16 December 2015 Building a Robotics Hub In San Diego
- 2. 2 World-Class Public Engineering School 1,600 Engineers Enter the Workforce Each Year $150M in Annual Research Funding Fuel Discoveries 20-30 Inventions Licensed by Spin-Outs or Corporate Partners per Year Engineering Leadership, Talent and Technology Look, Think and Act as a Top 10 Engineering School
- 3. 3 3 UC San Diego: World-Class University • We Are: • Student-centered • Research-focused • Service-oriented • Public university • One of the top 15 research universities worldwide. • #7 Among Public Engineering Schools in the U.S. • U.S. News ranking of Best Global Universities, 2014 • Largest Engineering School in California
- 4. 16 November 2015 4 PERSONALIZED, PRECISION MEDICINE With Health Sciences Initiatives to Address Grand Challenges CONTEXTUAL ROBOTICS FOR ASSISTED LIVING With Social Sciences MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY With Physical Sciences DATA ANALTYICS AND SECURITY FOR INTERNET OF THINGS With Physical Sciences
- 5. 5 Launched October 30, 2015Contextual Robotics Institute Industry Partners Engaged: Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, Leidos, IBM, Toyota, WowWee, Intel Two International Forums • October 2014 • October 2015 42 Faculty Participating • $40M-$50M in robotics research • $10m/year National Search for Institute Director, Three Additional Faculty Hires To Build: Core Labs, Joint Curricula, Integrative Research Projects
- 6. 6 Contextual Robotics Institute Mission: Advance leading edge research in contextual robotic systems and build a talent and innovation pipeline to fuel the emerging robotics industry sector.
- 7. 7 Recent Contextual Robotics Forum Meet world leaders developing ubiquitous consumer robotics for the benefit of society. Connect with San Diego's robotics community. Explore the technology showcase. Andrea Chiba Cognitive Sciences Prof. UC San Diego Todd Coleman Bioengineering Prof. UC San Diego Rob High VP & CTO, Watson Solutions IBM Software Group Todd Hylton Executive Vice President Brain Corporation Paolo Pirjanian Jonathan Sorger Senior Director of Medical Research Intuitive Surgical Mohan Trivedi Electrical Engineering Prof. UC San Diego Yulun Wang Chairman & CEO In Touch Health Matt Grob CTO Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Speakers Remarks Albert P. Pisano Dean Jacobs School of Engineering Tom Pieronek VP Basic Research Northrop Grumman Carol Padden Dean Social Sciences
- 8. 8 “We aim to grow San Diego into a world-class robotics hub. In addition to our research efforts, we are developing cross-disciplinary education programs, focusing on industry partnerships and strengthening our entrepreneurship programs. These efforts will converge in common lab spaces where we will inspire and prepare tomorrow’s robotics workforce.” Albert P. Pisano Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering Robotics Hub
- 9. 9 Why San Diego? Southern California is to robotics as the Bay Area is to computers San Diego: • High tech region • Bioengineering and biomedical companies • Cybersecurity • Wireless • Top ranked Universities and Colleges • Partnerships between Academia, Industry, Local Government • Cali-Baja industrial relationships and opportunities • Entrepreneurs tell us so: ~70 robotics related companies in Southern California
- 10. 10 Why UC San Diego? • Wide range of robotics expertise • Wide range of players to generate ecosystems for these fields • Neutral, open exchange of ideas • Investing in new faculty, laboratories • Committed to obtaining/expanding robotics research and research partners • Produces entrepreneurs of the future Leadership/Talent/Technology
- 11. 11 Jacobs School of Engineering Robotics Research Areas
- 12. 12 Medical Robotics Designing surgical robotic systems for robot-assisted, image-guided surgery Flexible Robotics Design and control of snake-like robots for medicine, manufacturing, military Biomimetic Actuators Artificial muscles design, modeling and control for active prostheses and orthoses Medical and Flexible Robotics Dexterous, snake-like robot for navigating within the vessels of the human body for minimally-invasive surgery Michael Yip Electrical and Computer Engineering: Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab
- 13. 13 Goal: Real-time classification of 1,000,000 image windows per second Efficient classifiers that optimize trade-off between object detection accuracy and speed Applications Robotics, smart vehicles, state of the art pedestrian detection Methods Cascades of deep learning classifiers learned with boosting Real-time Object Recognition Video: real-time pedestrian detection Nuno Vasconcelos Electrical and Computer Engineering: Statistical Visual Computing Lab
- 14. 14 Hundreds of Sensor Balloons • communicate via cellphones • release into a developing hurricane; self- distribute; and track the storm over several days while sending data back to forecasting centers Robotics Controls Challenges • Balloons steer by using buoyancy control, leveraging winds’ strong stratification Real-time environmental info Environmental Sensing Swarms Thomas Bewley Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering: UCSD Flow Controls Lab
- 15. 15 iRat Collaboration Cognitive scientists + bioengineers Social neuroscience for robotics Robot-Mammal Interactions How does interacting with iRat trigger responses from rats equipped with heart rate, brain function and breathing monitors? Animal Model for Contextual Robotics Andrea Chiba Cognitive Sciences Todd Coleman Bioengineering Janet Wiles U. of Queensland
- 16. 16 Autonomous Soft Systems Functional after getting run over by a truck. Self-assembly by Folding Design and control of snake-like robots for medicine, manufacturing, military Rigid Core to Soft Exterior Human friendly 3D-printed body Biologically-inspired Robotics Michael Tolley Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering: Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab
- 17. 17 Understand Driver Intention Algorithms and sensorized vehicles make it possible for an onboard computer to figure out whether the motorist intends to make a left turn, change lanes, etc. — even before the driver starts to do it In 2017 Vehicles Intelligent assistance features built in Trivedi lab are planned for rollout in the Audi A8 in 2017 Humanizing Robotic Vehicles Variations in light make detecting hand movements of a car driver difficult Mohan Trivedi Electrical and Computer Engineering: Lab for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles
- 18. 18 Humans to Specify Swarm Behaviors for: • Creating safety perimeters • Urban search • Traffic re-routing • Egress paths for victims • Situational awareness Human-Swarm Interactions Jorge Cortes and Sonia Martinez Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Multi-Agent Robotics Laboratory
- 19. 19 Student design Two nested tetrahedra interconnected by actuatable tendons Tensegrity Duct-Climbing Robot DucTT the tensegrity robot Batteries, electronics, motors and sensors are embedded within aluminum tubes to shield them from gas or liquid that may be flowing within ducts during the inspection. Jeffrey Friesen (graduate student) Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Tom Bewley’s Lab
- 20. 20 UC San Diego Robotics Related Start-ups
- 21. 21 UC San Diego startup: Bioengineering + Electrical Engineering + Cognitive Science Cognionics Mobile, real-time, non-invasive human bioelectric sensing
- 22. 22 Emotient Image credit: Emotient Startup from UC San Diego’s Machine Perception Lab Emotient is a leader in emotion detection and sentiment analysis based on facial expressions. Marian Bartlett (alumna/Prof) Ian R. Fasel (alumnus) Javier R. Movellan (researcher) Gwen Littlewort (researcher) Jacob Whitehill (alumnus)
- 23. 23 Accel Robotics Marius Buibas | CEO, Software Engineer and Neuroscientist, PhD Brain Corp, HP, UC San Diego bioengineering PhD Nick Morozovsky I CTO, Hardware Robotics Engineer, PhD WowWee, HP, UC SD mechanical engineering PhD Developing a robot photographer Co-founded by:
- 24. 24 WowWee + UC San Diego
- 25. 25 EcoATM UC San Diego startup • The only automated kiosk that collects unwanted or used cell phones, tablets and MP3 players for instant cash
- 26. 26 RoboLink UC San Diego robotics education startup Develops/provides robotic kits and instruction to students in grades 4-12
- 27. 27 Conclusion We can build a world class robotics hub in San Diego • World class universities • Outside world recognizes our effort • San Diego has all the components to host the ecosystem • Entrepreneurs agree! • The innovation is happening here • New start-ups happening all the time • Local major industry supports the hub The future looks bright!
- 28. 28 Thank you!