加州大学圣地亚哥分校校友动力圣地亚哥机器人生态系统-新东方前途出国

　　UC San Diego Alumni Power San Diego Robotics Ecosystem

　　加州大学圣地亚哥分校校友动力圣地亚哥机器人生态系统

　　Computer engineering student Sheila Pham demonstrates a smart wheelchair developed by a group of undergraduate students at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications 在线咨询

　　计算机工程系学生希拉·范演示了雅各布斯工程学院一群本科生开发的智能轮椅。Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego出版物提供的照片

　　Local companies, alumni took part in the San Diego Robotics Forum on campus

　　当地公司、校友参加了圣地亚哥大学校园机器人论坛

　　San Diego, Calif., November 14, 2019 -- From companies worth billions of dollars to startups employing a small number of people, UC San Diego engineering alumni are at the core of the robotics ecosystem here in San Diego County.

　　加州圣地亚哥，2019年11月14日——从价值数十亿美元的公司到雇佣少量员工的初创企业，加州大学圣地亚哥分校的工程校友是圣地亚哥县机器人生态系统的核心。

　　This robot developed by mechanical engineering professor Nicholas Gravish and colleagues can walk over rough and varied terrain.

　　这个机器人由机械工程教授尼古拉斯·格雷维什和他的同事开发，可以在崎岖多变的地形上行走。

　　This was clearly evident at the sixth annual robotics forum organized by the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute Nov. 7. The forum focused exclusively on local companies this year and was dubbed the San Diego Robotics Forum for the occasion. The goal was to showcase the breadth and depth of the region’s robotics strengths, and solidify San Diego’s reputation as Robot Beach. 在线咨询

　　这在11月7日由加州大学圣地亚哥分校情境机器人研究所组织的第六届年度机器人论坛上表现得非常明显。今年，该论坛专门针对当地公司，并被称为圣地亚哥机器人论坛。目标是展示该地区机器人技术优势的广度和深度，巩固圣地亚哥作为机器人海滩的声誉。

　　“We have an important mission here to showcase how strong San Diego is in the area of robotics,” said Henrik Christensen, director of the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute. “We have all these amazing companies in San Diego.”

　　加州大学圣地亚哥分校情境机器人研究所（UC San Diego Contextual robotics Institute）所长克里斯滕森（Henrik Christensen）说：“我们在这里有一个重要的使命，就是展示圣地亚哥在机器人领域的实力。“我们在圣地亚哥拥有所有这些令人惊叹的公司。”；

　　UC San Diego plays an important role in the local economy, both by providing engineers and computer scientists for the workforce, and by making discoveries that can be licensed by industry, said Denine Hagen, assistant dean at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego.

　　加州大学圣地亚哥分校雅各布斯工程学院助理院长丹尼·哈根（Denine Hagen）说，加州大学圣地亚哥分校在当地经济中发挥着重要作用，既为劳动力提供工程师和计算机科学家，也能通过获得行业许可证的发现。

　　“We are very proud of our role of delivering talent, leadership and technology that fuels our local economy,” she said.

　　她说：“我们非常自豪自己发挥的作用是提供人才、领导力和技术，为当地经济提供动力。”。

　　In order to best prepare students to meet the demands of the local and global robotics industry, the Jacobs School is launching a new robotics master’s degree program in summer 2020. 在线咨询

　　为了让学生做好充分准备，以满足本地和全球机器人行业的需求，雅各布学院将于2020年夏季推出一项新的机器人学硕士学位课程。

　　The robotics community in San Diego is already thriving and growing, forum speakers said. Many companies are led by or employ UC San Diego alumni.

　　论坛发言人说，圣地亚哥的机器人社区已经蓬勃发展。许多公司由加州大学圣地亚哥分校的校友领导或聘用。

　　Postdoc Cedric Girerd shows how a prototype for a new tool for robotic surgery could be used. Girard works with mechanical engineering professor Tania Morimoto.

　　博士后塞德里克·吉雷德展示了如何使用机器人手术新工具的原型。吉拉德与机械工程教授森本坦尼亚合作。

　　The San Diego Robotics Club has 1,600 members, making it the fourth largest robotics club in the nation. It is led by UC San Diego alumnus Hansol Hong, who is also the CEO of Robolink. The startup builds robotics kits that teach students programming and artificial intelligence skills. The kits are used by about 1,000 schools across the nation, and many of Robolink’s instructors in San Diego are UC San Diego engineering students. Robolink’s goal is to help teachers give students the STEM skills they need, starting in elementary school. “We are trying to hand down skills that are needed in industry,” Hong said.

　　圣地亚哥机器人俱乐部拥有1600名会员，是美国第四大机器人俱乐部。由加州大学圣地亚哥分校校友韩索尔（Hansol Hong）领导，他也是Robolink的首 席执行官。这家初创公司生产机器人工具包，教授学生编程和人工智能技能。这些工具包被全国大约1000所学校使用，而Robolink在圣地亚哥的许多导师都是加州大学圣地亚哥分校的工程系学生。Robolink的目标是帮助教师从小学开始向学生提供他们需要的STEM技能。洪磊说：“我们正在努力传授工业所需的技能。

　　At TuSimple, a company with more than one billion dollar valuation, dozens of UC San Diego student interns and full-time engineers have worked on the firm’s autonomous trucking platform. The company’s senior director of technology is UC San Diego alumnus Chuck Han, who earned bachelor’s degrees in computer engineering and economics and a master’s degree in computer science here.

　　在市值超过10亿美元的TuSimple公司，数十名加州大学圣地亚哥分校的学生实习生和全职工程师在该公司的自主货运平台上工作。该公司的高级技术总监是加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UC San Diego）的校友Chuck Han，他在这里获得了计算机工程和经济学学士学位和计算机科学硕士学位。 在线咨询

　　The company is working toward self-driving trucks and has revenue-generating projects in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas today. TuSimple uses cameras predominantly with AI to allow its truck to navigate roads and highways without driver input. “The goal is to have driverless vehicles by 2021,” Han said.

　　该公司正致力于自驾卡车，并在亚利桑那州、新墨西哥和德克萨斯等有收入项目。TuSimple主要使用带有人工智能的摄像头，使其卡车能够在没有驾驶员输入的情况下导航道路和高速公路。韩寒说：“目标是到2021年实现无人驾驶汽车。

　　Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Saurabh Jadhav shows off a robot built without any electronic components and developed by the Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab.

　　机械工程博士生Saurabh Jadhav展示了一个由仿生机器人和设计实验室开发的没有任何电子元件的机器人。

　　VectorZero is led by computer science alumnus Steven Rotenberg, and provides software that allows car companies, for example, to build 3D road simulations to train autonomous vehicles. The company, headquartered in Carlsbad, has 14 employees, more than half of whom are UC San Diego alumni. It also has more than 50 customers in the autonomous vehicle space.

　　VectorZero由计算机科学校友Steven Rotenberg领导，并提供软件，例如，允许汽车公司建立3D道路模拟来训练自主车辆。这家总部位于卡尔斯巴德的公司有14名员工，其中一半以上是加州大学圣地亚哥分校的校友。在自主车领域也有50多家客户。

　　“The road to autonomous vehicles will involve millions and millions of hours of simulations,” Rotenberg said. Many of those hours will be performed on Vector Zero maps.

　　Rotenberg说：“通往自动驾驶汽车的道路将需要数百万小时的模拟。其中许多时间将在矢量零地图上进行。

　　Lytx provides machine vision and artificial intelligence-powered video telematics solutions to help commercial and public sector fleets improve safety, efficiency and productivity. Stephen Krotosky is a UC San Diego alumnus and manager of applied machine learning for the company. About 80 percent of Lytx’s AI engineers were educated at UC San Diego, he said, as was the firm’s CEO Brandon Nixon, a computer engineering alumnus.

　　Lytx提供机器视觉和人工智能视频远程信息处理解决方案，帮助商业和公共部门车队提高安全性、效率和生产力。史蒂芬·克罗托斯基是加州大学圣地亚哥分校的校友，也是该公司应用机器学习的经理。他说，Lytx公司约80%的人工智能工程师在加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UC San Diego）接受教育，该公司首 席执行官布兰登•尼克松（Brandon Nixon）也是一名计算机工程校友。 在线咨询

　　“We want to comprehensively understand what the driver is doing and how they interact with the road so we can give the driver feedback that will help them understand and improve their driving behavior,” Krotosky said.

　　克罗托斯基说：“我们希望全面了解驾驶员正在做什么，以及他们如何与道路互动，这样我们就可以向驾驶员提供反馈，帮助他们了解和改善驾驶行为。”。

　　Other alumni taking part in this year’s San Diego Robotics Forum included engineering alumna Gioia Messinger, a board member and executive consultant at Kelzal, a leading developer of third-generation neural network-powered vision sensors for high performance object and activity recognition with applications in surveillance, autonomous vehicles and mobile robots.

　　参加今年圣地亚哥机器人论坛的其他校友还包括工程校友乔亚·梅辛格（Gioia Messinger），他是Kelzal的董事会成员和执行顾问，是第三代神经网络驱动视觉传感器的主要开发人员，用于高性能目标和活动识别，并应用于监控、自动车辆等领域还有移动机器人。 在线咨询

　　Companies with alumni in leadership positions also took part, including NXT Robotics, which provides service robots to support security needs. Accel Robotics, cofounded by bioengineering alumnus Marius Buibas, builds check-out free convenience stores and employs many alumni.

　　有校友担任领导职务的公司也参加了会议，其中包括NXT Robotics，该公司提供服务机器人以支持安全需求。Accel Robotics由生物工程校友Marius Buibas共同创办，建立免费的便利店，雇佣了许多校友。

　　This year’s event included talks and panels on empowering people; drones for security and defense; autonomy in transportation; and artificial intelligence at the edge.

　　今年的活动包括关于赋予人民权力的会谈和小组讨论；用于安全和防卫的无人机；交通自主；以及边缘的人工智能。

　　Graduate students from many robotics labs demoed various technologies in a wide range of fields, from healthcare robotics, to soft robotics, to drone and autonomous vehicles.

　　来自许多机器人实验室的研究生演示了广泛领域的各种技术，从医疗机器人到软机器人，再到无人机和自主车辆。