Robotics Debate for the Ingenuity Labs Robotics and AI Symposium (RAIS2024) on August 7, 2024.
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RAIS2024 was held in conjuction with the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2024).

According to Web of Science, there have been 1,147,069 publications from 2003 to 2023 that fell under their category of "Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence." During the same time period, 217,507 publications fell under their "Robotics" category, about 1/5th of the volume. This disparity in research volume is reflected in Jacob Stern's Atlantic article "AI is Running Circles Around Robotics." On top of that, Canada's published Science, Technology, and Innovation Priorities has AI at the top of the "Technology Advanced Canada" list, but robotics is not even listed. AI has also engaged the public's imagination more so than robotics with "AI" dominating Google Search trends compared to "robotics." This has us questioning: "Is AI Skyrocketing while Robotics Inches Forward?"

Our debate panel includes:

Dr. Yue Hu, University of Waterloo
Dr. Jonathan Gammell, Queen's University
Dr. Inna Sharf, McGill University
Dr. Matthew Pan, Queen's University

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