
4 July 2024
Meet our researchers: George creates algorithms in search for life in space
George Nikolakopoulos is Professor and Head of Subject of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Luleå University of Technology. He and his team work with developing AI for robots with inspiration from movies and dreams.
What are you researching?
"My research is about developing AI in the form of autonomy for robots. The word autonomy means that the robotic systems should take decisions and act for completing a task or a mission without any human intervention. This objective becomes more challenging when we place the robots to operate in real environments, an area that is called Field Robotics and this is the main focus of our research."
What makes your research so interesting?
"Enabling autonomous operations to the robots is like giving life to machines. Transforming a set of mechanical and electrical components into a system that has intelligence that can mimic the human behavior is fascinating but very challenging at the same time since everything needs to be described in the world of mathematics. Thus, in our everyday job we take inspiration from movies and we make dreams in order to realise now the upcoming future."
What is your dream as a researcher?
"My dream is that our team manages to develop autonomy that would empower the future fully autonomous missions in other planets in search for life and supporting human collonisation. I dream that our algorithms will travel far away from our planet and will give intelligence to the future space robots to perform tasks and to explore worlds where no human has ever been."
About George Nikolakopoulos
Name: George Nikolakopoulos
What: Professor and Head of Subject of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Luleå University of Technology
Comes from: Athens, Greece
Lives: Luleå
Therefore Luleå University of Technology: Because it is highly connected to the industry and it is located in an amazing place close to the nature.
I like it here: Kulturens Hus, the place where I had my first dinner experience at Luleå with its amazing view all times of the year.
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