Hans Moravec

Hans Moravec is a permanent resident research professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing in on transhumanism. Among other work, Moravec has developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest in a scene. It should be noted that other ROI techniques exist, including the patents of Sherman de Forest (U.S.), and the machine vision / image processing articles by Sobel.

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Professor - Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) - Carnegie Mellon University - Robotics - Artificial intelligence - Technology - Futurist - Transhumanism - Machine vision - Region of interest - Sherman de Forest

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Moravec earned a PhD from Stanford University in 1980 for a TV-equipped robot which was remote controlled by a large computer. The robot was able to negotiate cluttered obstacle courses. Other achievements in the field of robotics has been the discovery of new approaches for robot spatial representation such as 3D occupancy grids.

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PhD - Stanford University - 1980 - TV - Computer - Obstacle course - Spatial representation - 3D occupancy grids

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Moravec was a cofounder of SEEGRID Corporation in 2003 which is a robotics company with one of its goals being to develop a fully autonmous robot capable of navigating its environment without human intervention.

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2003 - Company

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Moravec is a Canadian U.S. Permanent Resident.

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