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Top14: Social Robots: Challenges for Machine Intelligence
Thursday 26 August
Organisers
Raja Chatila (LAAS-CNRS, France), chatila@laas.fr
Georges Giralt (LAAS-CNRS, France), giralt@laas.fr
Overview
Front-line current developments in Robotics concern a vast spectrum of domains where close human-robot interaction plays a paramount role. These domains encompass Service (public-oriented, tour guide,...), Assistive (medical care, elderly care-taking, physically impaired,...) and Personal Robots (household, companions, entertainment,...).
Usually referred as Human Friendly Robotics and Human Centered Robotics, all those application cases emphasize the crucial aspect, well captured by Social Robots, of Human-Robot interaction issues where humans are most often non-expert users and by-standers. The very nature of this interaction brings to the forefront machine-intelligence central research issues of advanced Cognitive Robotics with key themes blending a large range of topics from embodiment and appearance to open-ended learning and decisional autonomy.
Overviews and focused presentations will address in particular the European IST FET project COGNIRON.
Programme
 10h30 - 12h:
Overview and Challenges
Chair: Georges Giralt
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
Human-Like Motion from Physiologically-Based Potential Field - Oussama Khatib (Stanford U., USA)
A Dialog Based Interactive Robot - Gerhard Sagerer (Bielefeld University), Germany
Tracking Humans - Ben Krose (U. Amsterdam, Netherlands)
15h30 - 17h30:
Learning and Cognition
Chair: Rachid Alami
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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