Autonomous robots must operate in real-time within dynamic environments, requiring robust performance across diverse scales. To achieve this, roboticists are increasingly leveraging heterogeneous deployments across edge and cloud infrastructures, while integrating and co-designing robotics algorithms for various computing hardware, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, MCUs, and even custom accelerator ASICs (e.g., Neuromorphic processors). A key challenge […]

Robots navigating through uncontrolled human spaces face many challenges due to the uncertainty of human behavior and the unstructured nature of environmental context and social rules. Social robot navigation combines planning with human-robot interaction and communication strategies to provide acceptable, context-dependent robot behavior. With recent rapid transformations in AI, social robot navigation is changing, and […]