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 E-Mail Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and theyre powerful," says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often dont move quickly. "The hang up is whats going on in the robots head," she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a "boatload of computation," which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a PhD from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). ...

Designing customized “brains” for robots January 21, 2021MIT A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots’ response time. Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and they’re powerful,” says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don’t move quickly. “The hang up is what’s going on in the robot’s head,” she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a “boatload of computation...