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Episode 116: Evolved behaviour for robot teams - Tanja Katharina Kaiser

Robot Talk · 4 Apr 2025 · 23m · Episode 116

What this episode covers

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, a senior researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), explains how her Multi-Robot Systems Satellite Lab uses evolutionary algorithms to develop adaptive multi-robot teams. She details their work on object transport, utilizing vision language models to handle unknown objects and non-uniform weight distributions without prior knowledge. Kaiser discusses the trade-offs between centralized and decentralized communication, the challenge of evolving heterogeneous robot behaviors, and potential applications in logistics, warehouse automation, and future home robot swarms.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

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Companies
University of Technology Nuremberg, Amazon
Products
Schwarz Robot System
Tools
vision language models
Also
Multi-Robot Systems Satellite Lab

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