SRI International
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Thomas Low: A discussion of the world’s first fully autonomous robot
Thomas Low talks about Motobot, a collaborative project that sent a robot from the lab to the race track. Thomas Low is Director of SRI Robotics in Menlo Park, CA. In this interview, he discusses how SRI worked with Yamaha to develop the world’s first fully autonomous robot to ride and race a factory-stock motorcycle,…
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Stress, Sleep, and Autonomic Function in Healthy Adolescent Girls and Boys: Findings from the NCANDA Study
We investigated sex differences in the effect of stress on sleep and ANS activity in adolescents, using the first night in the laboratory as an experimental sleep-related stressor.
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Restructuring the physical and virtual workspace
Distribution of physical and virtual presence: Teleservices will increase, especially in education and health.
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Wideband Spectral Monitoring Using Deep Learning
We present a system to perform spectral monitoring of a wide band of 666.5 MHz, located within a range of 6 GHz of Radio Frequency (RF) bandwidth, using state-of-the-art deep learning approaches.
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Brian Foster: Meeting the client’s needs
Brian foster talks about RoboMiner, a collaborative project SRI completed with client Enaex.
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Lifelong learning using Eigentasks: Task separation, skill acquisition, and selective transfer
We introduce the eigentask framework for lifelong learning. An eigentask is a pairing of a skill that solves a set of related tasks, paired with a generative model that can sample from the skill’s input space.





