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My name is Nicola Bezzo.

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I'm a faculty in
system engineering.

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And this is my lab, the
autonomous mobile robots

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lab at UVA.

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Our work focuses on
creating [INAUDIBLE]

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resilient autonomous systems
that can occur from mistakes

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and even cyberattacks.

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One of our research
areas is marketing.

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We are now sending one of our
robots, the Jackal, underground

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to map the Blue Ridge Tunnel.

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With this historic
tunnel, now abandoned,

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rocks are falling
from the ceiling.

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There is water dripping.

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The ground is uneven.

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The Jackal is moving on its
own, working autonomously

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to probe space.

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As it's moving, it's
collecting point cloud data

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to stitch together
and create a 3D

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reconstruction of the tunnel.

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This kind of the
autonomous robot

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will be more and more deployed
in environments that are

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very unsafe to human beings.

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These robots are operating at
the edges of new possibilities,

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creating a future whose outlines
are beginning to emerge as we

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create a map of what's next.

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