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New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

Fri 24 March 2017

Department of Engineering

A one day inderdisciplinary scientific meeting covering Robotics in its different aspects and its varied applications. OPEN TO ALL who are interested:

Organisers: Fumiya Iida, Jim Woodhouse

PROGRAMME

Morning sessions :

9.10 Introduction

9.20 Brad Nelson (ETH Zurich) Microrobots and their future in medicine

10.10 Robert Full (Berkeley) The challenges of bioinspired robotics

11.00 Coffee

11.20 Martin Riedmiller (DeepMind) Learning machines

12.10 Hatice Gunes (Cambridge, Computer Laboratory) Socio-emotional human-robot interaction

13.00 Lunch

Afternoon sessions :

14.00 Noel Sharkey (Sheffield) Robot ethics

14.50 Alan Winfield (Univ West England) Experiments with simulation-based internal models: the first steps towards self-aware robots

15.40 Tea

16.10 Fumiya Iida (Cambridge, Engineering) Embodied intelligence toward self-organizing machines

17.00 End

A buffet lunch will be available at a cost of £5 in advance or £6.50 on the day. Numbers for the luncheon are limited and an advance purchase is recommended to guarantee a place. Please contact the Executive Secretary for a voucher.

The first 120 Fellows of the Society to apply will be offered a complimentary luncheon voucher.

Cost: Free

Enquiries and booking

No need to book.

A buffet lunch will be available at the cost of £5.00 in advance or £6.50 on the date. Numbers for the luncheon are limited and an advance purchase of a luncheon voucher is recommended to guarantee a place. Please contact the Cambridge Philosophical Society for details and vouchers.

The first 120 Fellows of the Society to apply will be offered a complimentary luncheon voucher.

Enquiries: Beverley Larner Website Email: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223 334743

Timing

All times

Fri 24 March 2017 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Venue

Address: Department of Engineering
Lecture Room 0
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 1PZ
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