What if robots and humans, working together, were able to
perform tasks in surgery and manufacturing that neither can do alone?
That’s the question driving new research by UC Berkeley
robotics experts Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel and colleagues from four other
universities, who were awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Science
Foundation.
Their work is part of the first $50 million in funding for
the National Robotics Initiative, announced in 2011 with the goal of exploring
how robots can enhance the work of humans rather than replacing them,