ROBO Global Strategic Advisor Raffaello D'Andrea discusses the trends in robotics and artificial intelligence.

1. 11/27/18
Raffaello D’Andrea, PhD
Confidential – internal document & not to be shared externally

2. The Robotics and AI Revolution
Raffaello D’Andrea
professor, ETH Zurich
founder, Verity Studios
co-founder, ROBO Global
co-founder, Amazon Robotics

3. A Brief History: the Digital Revolution (70s)
COMPUTATION
The Digital Revolution was heralded by low cost digital computers. The input was provided by
people (typically via keyboards), and the output was interpreted by people (in the form of computer
monitors or printed reports).
PEOPLEPEOPLE

4. A Brief History: the Big Data Revolution (00s)
The Big Data Revolution saw the input to computation (previously provided by people) replaced by big
data sets obtained and collected through various means. The resulting analysis was still interpreted,
and acted upon, by people.
COMPUTATION DATAPEOPLE

5. A Brief History: the Robotics & AI Revolution (now)
DISTRIBUTED
COMPUTATION
DISTRIBUTED
SENSING
DISTRIBUTED
ACTUATION
WORLD
Central to the Robotics & AI Revolution is real-time autonomous decision making and ubiquitous closed
loop control. This is being enabled by a multitude of factors: inexpensive sensors, high performance
distributed computation, pervasive communication, and novel algorithms & system architectures.
Main bottleneck to widespread implementation is robustness and reliability

6. Kiva Systems Rebrands As Amazon Robotics
Peter Wurman Mick Mountz Raffaello D’Andrea
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Amazon.com Paying $775 Million to
Acquire Kiva Systems

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