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PerspectiveROBOTICS
The grand challenges of Science Robotics
- Guang-Zhong Yang1,*,
- Jim Bellingham2,
- View ORCID ProfilePierre E. Dupont3,
- Peer Fischer4,5,
- View ORCID ProfileLuciano Floridi6,7,8,9,10,
- Robert Full11,
- View ORCID ProfileNeil Jacobstein12,13,
- Vijay Kumar14,
- View ORCID ProfileMarcia McNutt15,
- Robert Merrifield1,
- View ORCID ProfileBradley J. Nelson16,
- View ORCID ProfileBrian Scassellati17,18,
- View ORCID ProfileMariarosaria Taddeo7,8,9,
- Russell Taylor19,
- Manuela Veloso20,
- View ORCID ProfileZhong Lin Wang21 and
- View ORCID ProfileRobert Wood22,23
- 1Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, London, UK.
- 2Center for Marine Robotics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
- 3Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
- 4Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
- 5Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.
- 6Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- 7Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- 8Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- 9Data Ethics Group, Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
- 10Department of Economics, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
- 11Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
- 12Singularity University, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
- 13MediaX, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
- 14Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
- 15National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20418, USA.
- 16Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 17Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
- 18Department Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
- 19Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
- 20Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
- 21School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
- 22John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
- 23Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: g.z.yang{at}imperial.ac.uk
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Science Robotics 31 Jan 2018:
Vol. 3, Issue 14, eaar7650
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aar7650
Vol. 3, Issue 14, eaar7650
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aar7650
Guang-Zhong Yang
1Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Jim Bellingham
2Center for Marine Robotics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
Pierre E. Dupont
3Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Peer Fischer
4Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
5Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.
Luciano Floridi
6Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
7Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
8Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
9Data Ethics Group, Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
10Department of Economics, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
Robert Full
11Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Neil Jacobstein
12Singularity University, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
13MediaX, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Vijay Kumar
14Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Marcia McNutt
15National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20418, USA.
Robert Merrifield
1Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Bradley J. Nelson
16Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Brian Scassellati
17Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
18Department Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Mariarosaria Taddeo
7Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
8Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
9Data Ethics Group, Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
Russell Taylor
19Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Manuela Veloso
20Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Zhong Lin Wang
21School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Robert Wood
22John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
23Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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