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
