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Abstract:
(Invited Talks)
In this talk, Ms. Greiner's experience of developing robotic
technology is intertwined with experiences in founding a high tech
start-up company, IS Robotics (ISR). ISR is in business to bring
robotic technology into the mainstream. Already in use by the
thousands worldwide, the next few years will see our robotic
creations become commonplace - taking on boring tasks, providing
entertainment and education, going into places where humans can't
or shouldn't go. In the next ten years, they will become an
integral part of your everyday life in the home, office, stores,
and schools. Topics will include working with Universities, US
government funding for R&D, and working with industry
leaders.
Ms. Greiner is responsible for all day-to-day operations at IS
Robotics and sets the research direction of the company. In the
past two years, she has concentrated on establishing IS Robotics as
a world class research organization. This technology base and
emphasis on innovation allows ISR to compete effectively with much
larger corporations and labs such as Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Stanford Research Institution, Carnegie Mellon University, Draper
Labs, Sandia National Laboratory, and Northrop. She supervises
teams of engineers that have delivered microrovers that push the
state-of-the-art in mobility and intelligence such mine
countermeasures, hazardous environment mapping, museum
entertainment robots, and other proprietary commercial
applications. As a principal system designer for IS Robotics, Ms.
Greiner led many successful design projects for ISR including the
T-2 and Pebbles tracked robots and walking robots Nero, Grendel,
and Hermes. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S.
in Computer Science, both from MIT. Her 10 years of experience in
robotic technology includes work at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Ms.
Greiner has authored and co-authored several robotics papers and
has received the following honors:
-- Presenter for Discover Magazine Awards for Science and
Technology Discover Magazine Award Committee,
-- Robotics Charles Rowzee Award for best overall technical
paper, Second Symposium on Technology and the Mine Problem,
Monterey, CA
-- 1996 Program Chair SPIE, Robotic and Semi-robotic Ground
Vehicle Technology (OR037), Portable Robotics Session,
-- 1996 Porterhouse Award for Small Business, Chamber of
Commerce, Somerville, MA 1998
-- 1999 ISR selected as Fortune Magazine's Hip Hop Happening
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