The Past and Future of Robotics & Machine Intelligence: 250 Years of Research Experience

The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences invites you to a special panel on AI led by Distinguished Professor Emerita Ruzena Bajcsy, joined by colleagues Claire Tomlin, Shankar Sastry, Jitendra Malik, Rodney Brooks, and Ken Goldberg.

Are robots on the verge of becoming human-like and taking over most jobs? When will self-driving cars be cost-effective? What challenges in robotics will be solved by Large Language Models and generative AI?

Robots have been a topic of fascination since the word “robot” was coined in Czechoslovakia in 1920. Since the 1940s, the fields of robotics, control theory, computer vision, machine intelligence, machine learning, and AI have evolved with related but different terminologies, notations, and conferences.

Although renowned roboticist Ruzena Bajcsy recently retired from Berkeley, she will return to discuss her insights on how robotics research has evolved over the past half-century with five senior colleagues who have combined research experience of over 200 years.