Abstract
According to the World Robotics report (2022), robot installations hit a new record level in 2021 (31% increase from 2020 to 517,000 units). There are about 2.7 million industrial robots in use across the globe and roughly 400,000 new robots enter the market every year. More robots can be found in our daily lives, from cleaning robots at home, delivery robots in stores and restaurants to surgical robots in hospitals.
Digital transformation, global technology competition, and social changes, due to demographic shift associated with an aging population and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, have been driving the growing demand for robotics across industries and in all business sectors.
This presentation consists of two parts. The first part will cover the timeline of innovation in the field of robotics highlighting technological milestones. It will also note critical areas for further development, which could help significantly expand the range of robotic applications. The second part will summarize the speaker’s research achievements during his time in Hawaii as well as current R&D activities at Korea Institute of Robotics and Technology Convergence (KIRO).
Biography
Dr. Yuh currently serves as the President of Korea Institute of Robotics and Technology Convergence (KIRO). He also served as the Founding Director of Robotics and Media Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and the 5th, 6th President of Korea Aerospace University. Prior to arriving in Korea, he worked for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) as the Head of NSF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office in Tokyo, Japan and as a Program Director of Information and Intelligent Systems specializing in Robotics and Computer Vision in the NSF Headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. His program at NSF, along with NASA and NIH, co-sponsored a study on Assessment of International Research and Development in Robotics in 2004. He also organized the first U.S. Interagency Working Group Meeting in Robotics in 2005 which included representatives from 15 federal government agencies. These efforts helped successfully launch the U.S. National Robotics Initiative (NRI) in 2011. Prior to NSF, he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering as well as Information & Computer Science at the University of Hawaii (UH), Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A, and also the Founding Director of Autonomous Systems Laboratory at UH, where the most advanced autonomous underwater robot technology was developed, especially for intervention missions. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8574000)
Dr. Yuh is an Elected IEEE Fellow and has received various prestigious awards including NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from former President George Bush. He served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, Editorial Board Member of Journal of Intelligent Automation and Softcomputing, Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, Program Co-Chair of the IEEE 2001 and 2006 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and Program Chair of the IEEE 2003 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). He currently serves as a member of IEEE Fellow (Judge) Committee, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Advisory Board Member of Journal of Autonomous Robots, and VP of Korea Robotics Society. He has published 12 books and over 120 papers in Robotics, including Introduction to Autonomous Manipulation (G. Marani and J. Yuh) by Springer, 2014.
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