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Science Cafe - Robots and Cyborgs
Sphères, 8 March 2013
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Programme
Time Slots
Speaker Name
Talk Title
09:00 – 09:15
Rolf Pfeifer
Welcome Address
09:15 – 09:40
Rodney Brooks
The Robot Revolution
Coffee Break
09:40 – 09:50
09:50 – 10:10
Minoru Asada
Constructive Developmental Science from
neuro-dynamics to social interaction
10:10 – 10:30
Andy Ruina
The path to walking robots: bicycles, gliders and toys
Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:40
10:40 – 10:45
Giorgio Metta
the iCub project: investigating embodied cognition
10:45 – 11:00
Giulio Sandini
Social interaction and cognitive humanoids
11:00 – 11:20
Wolfram Burgard
Obelix – A robot on tour
Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:30
11:30 – 11:50
Gordon Cheng
Interacting with Robots
11:50 – 12:10
Max Erick Busse Grawitz
Drives for Robots
Lunch Break
12:10 – 13:10
13:10 – 13:30
Masayuki Inaba
Tendon Driven Humanoids
13:30 – 13:45
Rüdiger Dillmann
Anthropomatics
13:45 – 14:00
Tamim Asfour
Towards Humanoids for Every Body
Coffee Break
14:00 – 14:10
14:10 – 14:40
Miguel Nicolelis
On Brain Machine Interfaces
14:40 – 15:00
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Human Support System in real world
Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:10
15:10 – 15:30
Rob Spence
Man Machine Symbiosis
15:30 – 15:50
Hugh Herr
On Neuroprosthetics
15:50 – 16:00
Francesco Ferro
PAL Robotics
16:00 – 16:10
Oliver Wolf
Telenomies : an Aleotoric Robotic Composition
16:10 – 16:20
Coffee Break
Gregoire Courtine, Robert Debates on : Will, in 10 years time, robots take over
Riener, Rob Spence,
care for the elderly? - Personal service robots for
16:20 – 17:30
everyone in the near future : myth or reality? - Ethical
Hugh Herr, Silvestro
implications of home robots, personal robots and
Micera, Takanori Shibata,
human sexuality
Adrianne Wortzel
Chairperson : Naveen Kuppuswamy, AI Lab, University of Zürich
Debate Moderator : Silvestro Micera, EPFL, Lausanne and SSSA, Pisa
Speaker Profiles
Rolf Pfeifer
Professor of Computer Science,
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Deputy Director, Swiss National Center of
Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics, Switzerland
Rodney Brooks
Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics
(formerly Heartland Robotics).
Minoru Asada
Professor of Adaptive Machine Systems,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Osaka University, Japan.
Research Director, JST ERATO Asada
Synergistic Intelligence Project
Andy Ruina
Professor at Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Cornell University, USA
Giorgio Metta
Assistant professor,
University of Genova, Itay.
Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics (LIRA-Lab),
Senior Researcher at the Robotics, Brain and
Cognitive Sciences Department,
Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy.
Giulio Sandini
Director of Research,
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, Italy
Professor of Bioengineering,
University of Genoa, Italy
Founder, Laboratory for Integrated
Advanced Robotics (LIRA-Lab)
Gordon Cheng
Professor and Chair of Cognitive Systems.
Founder and Director of the Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS),
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology,
Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany.
Wolfram Burgard
Professor for Computer Science,
University of Freiburg, Germany.
Director, Research Lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems
Max Erick Busse Gravitz
Maxon Motors,
Switzerland
Masayuki Inaba
Professor, Graduate School of Mechano – Informatics,
University of Tokyo, Japan
Director, Jouhou System Kougaku (JSK) Lab
Rüdiger Dillmann
Director, Humanoids and Intelligent Systems Lab,
Institute for Anthropomatics.
Karsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Tamim Asfour
Institute for Anthropomatics
Chair for Humanoid Robotics Systems
High Performace Humanoid Technologie Lab (H2T)
Karsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Miguel Nicolelis
Professor of Neurobiology,
Biomedical Engineering and Psychology and Neuroscience
Co-Director, Center for Neuroengineering,
Duke University, USA
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Professor, Faculty of Engineering,
Division of Mechanical Engineering
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Director, KobaLab
Hugh Herr
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor, MIT-Harvard Division of
Health Sciences and Technology
Director of the Biomechatronics Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Rob Spence
Documentary Filmmaker, Canada
Grégoire Courtine
Associate Professor and lab director,
IRP Chair in Spinal Cord Repair,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Robert Riener
Professor,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich,
Switzerland
Director of Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory
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Silvestro Micera
Associate Professor,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Director, Translational Neural
Engineering Laboratory
Takanori Shibata
Professor, Waseda University, Japan
Director of Shibata Research Group
Adrianne Wortzel
Professor of Entertainment Technology,
New York City College of Technology, USA