Toward a More Human Robot

From businessweek.com:

"Carnegie Mellon's Takeo Kanade explains why making smarter systems requires better understanding about how people really act

As director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001, Takeo Kanade has been one of the pioneers in the field of robotics. Besides helping to oversee research, Kanade's technical contributions range from the areas of mobile robots and computer vision to sensors.

Kanade developed the multicamera technology dubbed EyeVision by CBS. It's used for Matrix-like replay of dynamic events such as football games. Still teaching at CMU, he's part-time director of the Digital Human Research Center at Advanced Industrial Science & Technology in Tokyo. Kanade spoke with BusinessWeek Correspondent Cliff Edwards about robotics, the state of innovation in the U.S., and research."