Building a Future with Robots The University of Sheffield

Peter Gray from Team Gray Matter tells us how he controls machines with his mind.  Part of our free online course Building a Future with Robots:

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/robotic-future/3

Meet the educators from Sheffield Robotics who contribute to the free online course 'Building a Future with Robots.'

Each of our educators has a vision for a future with robots. We ask, has learning about the current research and development and where it’s potentially going given you some insight into why flying cars, Robocops and Iron Men don’t exist yet?

Our experts share what the future will look like for team working robots.First up, Dr Jonathan Aitken gives us a glimpse into the factories of the future, explaining how the Kuka iiwa robot arm will work alongside workers on the factory floor. We’ll then hear from Professor Noel Sharkey about robot surgeons and from Dr Roderich Gross about swarms of exploratory robots.

Who might be working with robots in the future? Could the study of robotic systems be the key to unlocking your future career?In this video, academics and students from The University of Sheffield give us their view on how, in a growing industry, there are many careers options for those who can work with robots.

As we have seen in previous videos, a human-robot team, the robot knows how to act because the human controller is telling it what to do. However, in a robot-robot team, the robots must interact and co-operate with each other to decide what to do next.In this video, Dr Michalis Smyrnakis explains how game theory provides a mathematical framework for robots (in the example he uses UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to work together to achieve a common goal. We’ll look at game theory in a bit more detail in the next step.