Caltech's Aaron Ames (IMAGE)
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Aaron Ames, Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, and Aerospace and the Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair and director of Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST), is developing the safety layer for humanoid robots – a way of mathematically guaranteeing such robots will operate safely in the real world, avoiding people and even objects that are thrown at them.
"It's truly amazing what we can have robots do now, from a motion perspective," says Ames. "But if you don't think about safety, none of that is going to matter."
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