AGSTC 2020
Session 2
Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Sensing in Seafood Processing.
Panelist 1
Taskin Padir
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Founding Director, Institute for Experiential Robotics
Northeastern University
Taskin Padir is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. He is the Founding Director of Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential Robotics. His research interests include supervised autonomy for humanoid robots, shared autonomy for intelligent vehicles, and human-in-the-loop control systems. His projects have been sponsored by NSF, ARM, NASA, DOE-EM, DARPA, and numerous industry partners, including Toyota, Mathworks, and Intel. Professor Padir led project teams for the NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge, SmartAmerica Challenge and the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Title: Advances in Seafood Processing Through Automation
Appropriate development and deployment of collaborative robots will transform profitability, productivity, safety, sustainability, and worker quality of life in the seafood processing industry, where harsh conditions and demanding and dangerous tasks challenge the capabilities of humans and robots alike. This talk will go over our designs, tools, methods, and data sets to facilitate seamless human-robot collaboration for a globally competitive and domestically underserved industry.
Panelist 2
Alicia Sasser Modestino
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Associate Director, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
Northeastern University
Alicia Sasser Modestino is an Associate Professor with appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Since 2015, Dr. Modestino has also served as the Associate Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and an invited researcher of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT.
Dr. Modestino’s current research focuses on labor and health economics including changing skill requirements, youth development, healthcare, housing, and migration.
Modestino holds both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where she also served as a doctoral fellow in the Inequality and Social Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government.
Title: Economics of Automation in Seafood Processing
While New England is known as a key source of lobster and other seafood, much of the processing is outsourced to other countries due to a lack of local manpower. The introduction of cobots or collaborative robots, has the potential to increase productivity and improve safety in the seafood industry with robots performing much of the inspection and handling of fish and humans completing the more complicated processing tasks. This talk will focus on the economic impact of automation on both employers and workers as well as the future of the seafood processing industry.
Panelist 3
Tom Ryden
Executive Director
MassRobotics
MassRobotics is an independent non-profit that supports the robotics, AI and IoT community in Massachusetts. Tom Ryden joined the organization as it Executive Director in 2016 and has overseen its growth and the recent expansion of its Robotics Innovation Center in Boston, MA. MassRobotics now supports over 250 companies and houses over 30 start-ups in its facility. Prior to MassRobotics, Mr. Ryden held senior executive roles in a number of robotics companies.
Title: Future of Robotics in Food Processing – Seafood Highlights
Emerging robotics technology can be used in many industries, including seafood processing. Mr. Ryden will speak to some of these new trends, such as autonomous mobile robots for goods movement and collaborative robots for human robot interactive tasks, and to the growth and impact this technology is projected to have.
Taskin Padir
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Founding Director, Institute for Experiential Robotics
Northeastern University
Taskin Padir is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. He is the Founding Director of Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential Robotics. His research interests include supervised autonomy for humanoid robots, shared autonomy for intelligent vehicles, and human-in-the-loop control systems. His projects have been sponsored by NSF, ARM, NASA, DOE-EM, DARPA, and numerous industry partners, including Toyota, Mathworks, and Intel. Professor Padir led project teams for the NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge, SmartAmerica Challenge and the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Title: Advances in Seafood Processing Through Automation
Appropriate development and deployment of collaborative robots will transform profitability, productivity, safety, sustainability, and worker quality of life in the seafood processing industry, where harsh conditions and demanding and dangerous tasks challenge the capabilities of humans and robots alike. This talk will go over our designs, tools, methods, and data sets to facilitate seamless human-robot collaboration for a globally competitive and domestically underserved industry.
Panelist 2
Alicia Sasser Modestino
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Associate Director, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
Northeastern University
Alicia Sasser Modestino is an Associate Professor with appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Since 2015, Dr. Modestino has also served as the Associate Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and an invited researcher of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT.
Dr. Modestino’s current research focuses on labor and health economics including changing skill requirements, youth development, healthcare, housing, and migration.
Modestino holds both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where she also served as a doctoral fellow in the Inequality and Social Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government.
Title: Economics of Automation in Seafood Processing
While New England is known as a key source of lobster and other seafood, much of the processing is outsourced to other countries due to a lack of local manpower. The introduction of cobots or collaborative robots, has the potential to increase productivity and improve safety in the seafood industry with robots performing much of the inspection and handling of fish and humans completing the more complicated processing tasks. This talk will focus on the economic impact of automation on both employers and workers as well as the future of the seafood processing industry.
Panelist 3
Tom Ryden
Executive Director
MassRobotics
MassRobotics is an independent non-profit that supports the robotics, AI and IoT community in Massachusetts. Tom Ryden joined the organization as it Executive Director in 2016 and has overseen its growth and the recent expansion of its Robotics Innovation Center in Boston, MA. MassRobotics now supports over 250 companies and houses over 30 start-ups in its facility. Prior to MassRobotics, Mr. Ryden held senior executive roles in a number of robotics companies.
Title: Future of Robotics in Food Processing – Seafood Highlights
Emerging robotics technology can be used in many industries, including seafood processing. Mr. Ryden will speak to some of these new trends, such as autonomous mobile robots for goods movement and collaborative robots for human robot interactive tasks, and to the growth and impact this technology is projected to have.