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Top14: Social Robots: Challenges for Machine Intelligence

Thursday 26 August

Room

Ariane 2

Organisers

Raja Chatilaand and Georges Giralt (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Programme

10h30 - 12h: Overview and Challenges

Chair: Georges Giralt (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Development of Humanoids and New Business Structure - Hirochika Inoue (Digital Human Research Center, AIST, Japan)

Towards Robot Companions - Raja Chatila (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Roles of Robots in Human Society: Challenges and Case Studies - Kerstin Dautenhahn (U. Hertfordshire, UK)

 

13h30 - 15h: Human Robot Interaction

Chair: Roland Siegwart (EPFL, Switzerland)

Human-like Motion from Physiologically-Based Potential Field - Oussama Khatib (Stanford U., USA)

A Dialog Based Interactive Robot - Gerhard Sagerer (Bielefeld U., Germany)

Tracking Humans - Ben Krose (U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

15h30 - 17h30: Learning and Cognition

Chair: Rachid Alami (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Learning and Cooperative Multimodal Humanoid Robots - Ruediger Dillmann (Karlsruhe U., Germany)

From Geometric to Cognitive Maps - A Key Element for Personal Robots - Roland Siegwart (EPFL, Switzerland)

Centibots: Very Large Scale Distributed Robotic Teams - Kurt Konolige (SRI International, USA)

Concluding Panel

 

 

 

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The overall schedule of sessions and the social events have been designed to facilitate fruitful interactions between attendees.

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         Jean Claude Laprie

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