The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has officially opened the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST), where researchers from Caltech’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS), and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will collaborate on a number of fields.
Priority is the interaction between machines and researchers, which will work together and learn from one another by working on autonomous systems, drone research, autonomous exploration, and bio-inspired systems.
“The goal is to teach autonomous systems to think independently and react accordingly, preparing them for the rigors of the world outside of the lab,” says CAST Director Mory Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering.
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