{"663040":{"#nid":"663040","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Defense by Hanqing Zhu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Design, Education and Evolution of a Robotic Baby\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;November 30, 2022 (Wednesday)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation: \u003C\/strong\u003EZoom (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/97318093429\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/97318093429\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHanqing Zhu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPh.D. Candidate in Robotics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Aerospace Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Eric Feron (Advisor) -\u0026nbsp;Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering,\u0026nbsp;King Abdullah University of Science and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Kyriakos Vamvoudakis (Co-Advisor) -\u0026nbsp;School of Aerospace Engineering,\u0026nbsp;Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Dimitri Mavris - School of Aerospace Engineering,\u0026nbsp;Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Jerome Hugues -\u0026nbsp;Software Engineering Institute,\u0026nbsp;Carnegie Mellon University\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Emmanuel Roche -\u0026nbsp;Clover.AI\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInspired by Alan Turing\u0026#39;s idea of a child machine, I introduce the formal definition of a robotic baby, an integrated system with minimal world knowledge at birth, capable of learning incrementally and interactively, and adapting to the world. Within the definition, fundamental capabilities and system characteristics of the robotic baby are identified and presented as the system-level requirements. As a minimal viable prototype, the Baby architecture is proposed with a systems engineering design approach to satisfy the system-level requirements, which has been verified and validated with simulations and experiments on a robotic system. The capabilities of the robotic baby are demonstrated in natural language acquisition and semantic parsing in English and Chinese, as well as in natural language grounding, natural language reinforcement learning, natural language programming and system introspection for explainability. Furthermore, the education and evolution of the robotic baby are illustrated with real-world robotic demonstrations. Inspired by the genetic inheritance in human beings, knowledge inheritance in robotic babies and its benefits regarding evolution are discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" The Design, Education and Evolution of a Robotic Baby "}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2022-11-09 18:34:59","changed_gmt":"2022-11-09 18:34:59","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-11-30T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2022-11-30T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-11-30T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-11-30 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-11-30 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-11-30 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}