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, and why a human-shaped robot was the right approach to help make riders safer.
By recycling carbon dioxide into methanol, this science supports U.S. climate goals and helps reduce greenhouse gases.
SRI is spearheading a way for autonomous systems, such as self-driving vehicles and drones, to effectively operate in evolving and adversarial environments such as war zones.
The U.S. Department of Education issues a third five-year cooperative agreement to SRI to lead The DaSy Center.