[Visinfo] Corina's IGERT write up

[Corina S. Schweller]

Corina Schweller
Week 1 IGERT

Ken Goldberg presented the topic of Network Robotics, namely 
telerobotics, at the Jan 13 IGERT seminar. In 1994 he and a team put a 
camera on a robot and built a robust system. It was the first network 
robot on the Internet and allowed people to control certain functions 
through the website. Users could click on a button that blows a gust of 
air into a sandbox to uncover items that have been buried in the sand. 
The next network robot he participated in creating was a robotic arm 
that allows people to water plants and to plant new ones in a garden 
via the Internet. At the turn of the century there was an increase for 
surveillance video for security due to world events. With this shift 
came a new project at the UC Berkley that employed a powerful camera 
that could zoom in with incredible clarity. This camera was controlled 
by a Website interface and utilized algorithms to find the area that 
would give the most user satisfaction in case there were too many users 
wanting to change views at the same time. His future project is a 
Collaborative Observatory for Natural Environments.