Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG) is a division of the
Ames Research Center
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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in California's
Silicon Valley
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Description
The 2009 Director of the Intelligent Robotics Group Terry Fong stated in an interview that
See also
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
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Programming
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History of robots
The history of robots has its origins in the ancient world. During the industrial revolution, humans developed the structural engineering capability to control electricity so that machines could be powered with small motors. In the early 20th cen ...
References
External links
gigapan of the IRG By:Rich Gibson (Rich) on October 29, 2008 (system developed by Carnegie Mellon University) interactive internal view of laboratory at IRG retrieved 19:47(GMT) (''in situ'')24.10.2011
* Kristen Stubbs and Illah Nourbakhs
Mission," BibTeX Reference : @techreport { CMU-RI-TR-04-45 Stubbs_2004_4777 (September "2004") ] Abstract: IRG at
Carnegie Mellon University
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(Pittsburgh, PA) aiding mission processes for Mars exploration
Robotics organizations
History of artificial intelligence
Ames Research Center