Conference/Collaborative Research: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence; Alexandria, Virginia; late 2023/early 2024

会议/合作研究：机械智能跨学科研讨会；

• 批准号: 2335476
• 负责人: Victoria Webster-Wood
• 金额: $ 8.78万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2335476&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Collaborative; Research; Interdisciplinary; Workshop

This award supports an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence. Mechanical intelligence is an umbrella term that is used to refer to all forms of physical intelligence and morphological computations in biological and engineered systems. The workshop will bring together 40 participants, covering expertise in robotics, biomechanics, neuroscience, applied math, physics, machine learning, mechanics, and materials. The presentations and discussions will address a path for finding a common language, formulating theory, and developing quantifiable metrics for mechanically intelligent systems that translate across disciplines, with an additional underlying goal of facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to mechanical intelligence. After the workshop, a report will be generated to summarize the findings, which will be shared with the general research community. Despite ample evidence of the application of mechanical intelligence in biological and robotic systems, this topic has received less attention in the current era of cognitive and electronic intelligence. The activities of the workshop are designed to bring together researchers with expertise in mathematics, physics, computational science, materials science, robotics and biology to discuss plans to develop (1) a shared vocabulary that facilitates fruitful interaction and exchange of perspectives and ideas on mechanical intelligence across disciplines, and (2) theory, methods, and quantifiable metrics of mechanical intelligence to enable comparison across diverse instantiations of mechanical intelligence. Addressing both of these gaps is expected to catalyze advancement in the field of mechanical intelligence and moving it forward.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持有关机械智能的跨学科研讨会。机械智能是一个伞术语，用于指代生物和工程系统中的所有形式的物理智能和形态计算。该研讨会将召集40名参与者，涵盖机器人技术，生物力学，神经科学，应用数学，物理，机器学习，机械师和材料的专业知识。演讲和讨论将介绍找到一种通用语言，制定理论并为机械智能系统开发可量化的指标的途径，以跨学科转化，并具有促进机械智能跨学科方法的附加基础。研讨会结束后，将生成一份报告来总结发现，并将与一般研究社区共享。尽管有足够的证据表明机械智能在生物和机器人系统中的应用，但在当前认知和电子智能时代，该主题受到了较少的关注。研讨会的活动旨在将数学，物理，计算科学，材料科学，机器人学和生物学方面具有专业知识的研究人员汇集在一起​​，以讨论制定计划的计划（1）共享词汇，以促进融合的互动和交换的融合和思想以及关于机械智能的机械智能的机械智能的跨越理论，方法，以及（2）机制的机制，以及（2）机制，以及（2）机制，（2）机制，（2）机制，（2）机制，（2）机制，（2）机制，（2）机制，（2）机制，（2）机械智能，（2）机械智能，（2） 智力。解决这两种差距都有望促进机械智能领域的进步并将其前进。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。