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<p class="isSelectedEnd"><span>Dear all,</span></p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd"><span>We are pleased to announce an invited
talk by <b>Paulo Drews Jr.</b> on May 27 at 14:30, at the ISR
Amphitheater.</span></p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd"><span>Below you can find the title,
abstract, and short bio of the speaker. We look forward to
seeing you there!</span></p>
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<div><font face="monospace"><b>Title</b>: Robotics and its
Challenges in the World of Artificial Intelligence</font></div>
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<div><font face="monospace"><b>Abstract</b>: Robotics brings
important challenges from both a scientific and technological
point of view. The relevance and practical applications make
efforts necessary. Within an extremely interdisciplinary
robotics context, autonomy presents important and relevant
challenges and opportunities that align with recent advances in
artificial intelligence. Practical examples developed in
projects by the Automation and Intelligent Robotics group –
NAUTEC and the Embrapii Center for Robotics and Artificial
Intelligence – iTEC, both from the Federal University of Rio
Grande – FURG, Brazil, will also be discussed. These robotics
examples include aerial, underwater, hybrid aerial-underwater,
logistics, oil <span aria-invalid="spelling" class="LI ng"
style="border-style:none;background:none">&gas</span> and
agriculture, among other applications. </font></div>
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<div><font face="monospace"><b>Short bio</b>: </font><font
face="monospace">Paulo Drews-Jr holds a D.Sc. and M.Sc. in
Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais
(UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His doctoral dissertation
focused on restoring images acquired using participating media
in robotics. His master's thesis was focused on change detection
and shape retrieval in 3D Maps. He graduated in Computer
Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG),
Rio Grande, Brazil. His main research interests are robotics,
computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and
machine learning. He was a researcher at the ISR Coimbra's
Mobile Robotics Lab, collaborating as a research fellow on the
FP projects Prometheus and IRPS. He was also a visiting
researcher at the Autonomous System Lab at QCAT-CSIRO in
Brisbane, Australia, and a Guest Professor at the Robot Learning
Lab of the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is an Associate
Professor of the Center for Computational Science - C3 at the
Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG and the Director of the
iTec/FURG EMBRAPII Unit in Robotic Systems and Automation. He is
also a CNPq Research Fellow of Productivity in Technological
Development and Innovative Extension.</font></div>
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<p><span>Best regards,</span></p>
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David Portugal, Ph.D.
Institute of Systems and Robotics
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Coimbra - Polo II
3030-790 Coimbra, Portugal
Tel: +351 239 796 213</pre>
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