One of the grand challenges in artificial intelligence is to create
truly "general-purpose" autonomous robots for home, hospital, and
office environments. This talk will discuss some of the challenges of
motion autonomy and present an overview of some practical automatic
motion planning methods for biped navigation, and object grasping and
manipulation. Experimental results on several humanoid robot
platforms around the world will be shown, along with some new efforts
in mobile manipulation. Finally, the long-term prospects for the
future development of robot autonomy as it relates to search-based AI
and the rise of high-performance cloud computing will be discussed.
