Vijay Kumar Professions : Scientist Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Vijay Kumar Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot. Vijay Kumar yourpersoneyescoffee Robots are good at things that are structured. Vijay Kumar structuredthingsgoodrobots The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match. Vijay Kumar flychallengerobotsdoors If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically. Vijay Kumar downsmallmomentyou When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide. Vijay Kumar youryoubrainhands We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways. Vijay Kumar mazemakenavigate I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women. Vijay Kumar eyesyouwomenlaw Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications. Vijay Kumar needyourobotscommunication If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me. Vijay Kumar picturesaymepainting Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously. Vijay Kumar flypossiblerobotshalf Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away? Vijay Kumar willyoulawwant Similar Authors Bruce Ellis scientist Brian O'Leary scientist Amanda Feilding scientist Astro Teller scientist Arvid Carlsson scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scientistAll Authors
