Thinking Robots
About
About Thinking Robots
Thinking Robots develops a layered software architecture for robots that can receive spoken instructions, ask questions and learn unfamiliar objects or actions through dialogue and demonstration. TRADE provides fault-tolerant, introspective middleware for connecting existing distributed systems, while TRUST handles natural-language understanding, dialogue management and instruction-based learning.
TRACS adds planning and reasoning for cooperation among multiple people and robots. Knowledge learned by one machine can be shared with other robots, IoT devices and automation tools, allowing heterogeneous systems to coordinate on a task. The approach targets open-world environments where operators cannot pre-program every action and may need to teach or revise behaviour during operation.
Team
- Matthias Scheutz - President and Chief Executive Officer - Leads Thinking Robots and its language, cognition and multi-robot control work.
Timeline
Events
- 2022-07-22 - Contract Award - NASA awards Thinking Robots Phase I TRACS contract
The award start date is 22 July 2022. The project applies the TRACS cognitive architecture to deep-space support. The amount is recorded from the federal award record.
Source - 2021-01-01 - Contract Award - NSF awards Thinking Robots Phase I disinfection-robot contract
The award start date is 1 January 2021. The project covers complementary disinfection robots. The amount is recorded from the federal award record.
Source - 2010-10-18 - Contract Award - U.S. Navy awards Thinking Robots Phase I dialogue-control contract
The award start date is 18 October 2010. The project concerns dialogue-based supervisory control. The amount is recorded from the federal award record.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- NASA
Sbir Phase I Awarding Agency - NASA awarded Thinking Robots a Phase I SBIR to evaluate TRACS for deep-space cognitive-agent support.
Context
Comparable profiles
- Breaker
stack adjacency - Autonomous Mission Execution · Natural Language Robot Command
Context tags
- Robot learning - Capability - TRACS is described as supporting teachable robot behaviour: https://thinkingrobots.ai/Technology.html
- Autonomous mission execution - Capability - TRACS and TRADE coordinate task execution across robot systems: https://thinkingrobots.ai/Technology.html
- Natural language robot command - Capability - TRUST supports natural-language dialogue for robot instruction: https://thinkingrobots.ai/Technology.html
- Cognitive AI robotics research - Peer Group - The company's software is built around cognitive architectures for robots: https://thinkingrobots.ai/Technology.html
- Human-robot interaction - Capability - Thinking Robots develops dialogue and cognitive systems for human-robot collaboration: https://thinkingrobots.ai/Technology.html
Commercial
- NASA awards Thinking Robots Phase I TRACS contract
2022-07-22 · Order / contract · NASA awarded Thinking Robots a $149,945 Phase I SBIR contract to develop a TRACS-based cognitive agent for deep-space operations.
Source - NSF awards Thinking Robots Phase I disinfection-robot contract
2021-01-01 · Order / contract · The National Science Foundation awarded Thinking Robots a $253,836 Phase I SBIR contract for coordinated disinfection robots.
Source - U.S. Navy awards Thinking Robots Phase I dialogue-control contract
2010-10-18 · Order / contract · The U.S. Navy awarded Thinking Robots a $69,972 Phase I SBIR contract to research natural-language dialogue for supervisory control of robot systems.
Source