Invited presentation by Jeremy Fishel, Founder Tangible Research, Principal Researcher Sanctuary AI, USA: From High-Dexterity Tactile Telerobots to General-Purpose Robots with Human-Like Intelligence
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Jeremy Fishel is the founder of Tangible Research which developed advanced haptic technology for telerobotics and was acquired by Sanctuary AI, where he is currently a Principal Researcher. He also has an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Mechatronic Engineering at California State University, and was a co-founder of SynTouch makers of biomimetic tactile sensing and characterization equipment. Jeremy received his PhD from the University of Southern California (’12) for his work on tactile sensing and material characterization, which formed the foundation of SynTouch’s core business in quantifying touch. He has been recognized by Popular Mechanics as one of the 2013 Innovators of the year, and accepted as a delegate of the Academy of Achievement under the personal recommendation of General David Petraeus for his efforts developing prosthetic hands with tactile reflexes. Under his technocal leadership, SynTouch was recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, an RBR50 company by the Robotics Business Review. Through Tangible Research he has lead a coalition of interdisciplinary teams across multiple high-tech companies to create the world’s first high-fidelity tactile-telerobot capable of in-hand manipulation. Jeremy’s professional interests are in pioneering applications of robotic dexterity and perception using the sense of touch. |
The ability to record and replay sound and video has led to tremendous advancements in human connectivity, interaction, collaboration, and productivity. More recently, an AI renaissance has emerged catalyzed by the significant amount of text, audio, and video training data that has been collected over the years. In contrast, the commercial success of remote physical interaction, dexterity, and haptics have lagged significantly behind their visual and auditory counterparts. We assert this is largely due to the overwhelming complexity required to reproduce the fidelity of human dexterity and touch at an acceptable level of performance, cost, and robustness. In this talk we will present on Tangible Research's collaboration with Shadow Robot Company, Haptx, SynTouch, and Universal Robots to develop the Tactile Telerobot, the first system to bring together high-performance dexterity and humanlike-haptics, and our experiences in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE. Tangible Research has subsequently been acquired by Sanctuary AI to continue these efforts and we will close this talk with details on Sanctuary AI's launch of Phoenix, our sixth-generation humanoid general-purpose robot, and the innovative workflow process to accelerate the creation of human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots powered by our pioneering AI control system, Carbon.