Transfer learning, the ability to use knowledge previously gained from one context in another, could teach cheap robots to perform as well as expensive ones.
PhD candidate Ryo Suzuki, advised by CS professors and IRT members Tom Yeh and Mark Gross, recently won a Best Paper award for "MorphIO" research at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems conference.
Project TORUS–or Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells–is a two-year partnership between CU Boulder, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (which is leading the work), Texas Tech University, the University of Oklahoma and the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
Assistant Professor Majid Zamani said opportunities for collaboration were a huge factor in his decision to join the Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering and Applied Science this spring.
The chief salesman for Airbus says his company already has the technology to fly passenger planes without pilots at all — and is working on winning over regulators and travelers to the idea.