Robots are already among us! Italy-Japan 2007 Symposium

PROGRAM OF THE SYMPOSIUM

March 23, Friday

Registration

08:20 - 08:40

Opening

08:40 - 08:45

Ambasciata d'Italia - Welcome to the Primavera Italiana 2007

Introductory session: the dream and the birth of robotics in Japan and in Italy

08:45 - 10:15

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

08:45 H. Inoue

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

09:30 P. Dario

Award ceremony

10:15 - 10:30

Waseda University

K. Shirai

Coffee Break

10:30 - 10:50

Robots with human beings: the development of humanoid robots with human-like bodies, brains, and emotions

10:50 - 12:30

Synergistic Intelligence: Towards Emergence of Communication - A Preliminary Study on Vowel Acquisition by Maternal Imitation -

10:50 M. Asada

Nagoya University

11:10 T. Fukuda

Humanoid Robots for Emotional Neuroscience

11:30 A. Takanishi

University of Genova

11:50 G. Sandini

Waseda University

12:10 S. Hashimoto

Lunch

12:30 - 13:30

Robots for human beings: robotic systems for biomedical applications

13:30 - 14:50

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

13:30 P. Dario

Intelligent Robotics Based Medicine

13:50 M. G. Fujie

Waseda University

14:10 K. Iwasaki

Environmental Robot Systems for human beings

14:30 T. Sato

Robots in the service of human beings: robots in space, underwater, and in other hazardous scenarios

14:50 - 15:50

Space Robot

14:50 M. Oda -

University of Verona

15:10 P. Fiorini

Development of GRYPHON: humanitarian mine searching and neutralizing robot

15:30 S. Hirose

Coffee Break

15:50 - 16:20

Industrial perspectives of robotics

16:20 - 17:20

Safety Standardization Activities on Service Robots

16:20 Y. Ota

TELEROBOT: a typical small Italian company story

16:35 D. Corsini

TMSUK

16:50 Y. Takamoto

STMicroelectronics for Robotics Solutions

17:05 N. Abbate

Round Table: Educating humans and robots to co-exist

17:20 - 18:30

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

H. Inoue

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

C. Laschi

Tokyo Metropolitan University

K. Tanie

Nagoya University

K. Ikuta

Videoconference: Invited Lecture on Leonardo da Vinci

18:30 - 19:00

The Leonardo Museum in Vinci

R. Nanni

Videoconference: Opening Ceremony of Robot-An, the Japan-Italy Joint Laboratory on Humanoid & Biomedical Robotics

19:00 - 19:15

Conclusion

19:15 - 19:30

More information

Robots are already among us! - Official Web Site
www.robocasa.net/workshop/2007/?page=program

Waseda University
Ookubo 3-4-1 55S-706A,
Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

Waseda University
www.waseda.jp/top/index-e.html

E-mail: massimiliano AT kurenai DOT waseda DOT jp

Scuola Superiore Santanna Pisa
www.sssup.it

Primavera Italiana 2007
http://sedi.esteri.it/primaveraitaliana2007