As a partner at the Second Skolkovo Robotics International Conference, which is going to begin on March 1-2, 2014 in the first Skolkovo Innovation City bulding «The Hypercube” and expected to achieve about 1,000 guests and participants, Skoltech holds a round-table discussion «The Great Unsolved Problems of Interaction between Humans and Robots” moderated by Maxim Kiselev, Director of Leadership Programs. The list of key speakers participated in the round-table includes: Aleksander Kaplan, MSU; Nadezhda Zilberman, TPU; Frank Tobe, the owner of Robostox company, who managed to develop robotics and automation tools into a market product quoted at the NASDAQ stock exchange; Dr. Gianmarco Veruggio, the creator of Roboethics – principles of humans behavior by constructing and using robots; and Kate Darling, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a world-class expert in legal issues of interaction between humans and robots.
Inivited by Skoltech the experts’ll also provide lectures in the framework of Skolkovo conference:
Frank Tobe
«Transition from Caged to Adjacent to Truly Collaborative»
1 March, at 12:30 – Hypercube, 4th Floor, main stage
Gianmarco Veruggio
“Roboethics: Philosophical, Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics”
1 March, at 14:30 – Hypercube, 4th Floor, main stage
Kate Darling
“Near-term ethical questions of social robots“
1 March, at 14:50 – Hypercube, 4th Floor, main stage
The owner and publisher of The Robot Report, a robotic news and business portal. In early 2013, with some entrepreneurial partners, he co-founded Robo-stox, the company that developed a tracking index reflecting the performance of robotics-related and/or automation-related companies worldwide: the Robo-stox Global Robotics & Automation Index. The index was created from a comprehensive database of robotics companies, gathered from The Robot Report’s proceedings. That turned robotics and automation tools into a market product quoted at the NASDAQ stock exchange.
On November 12, with a one-armed robot and a 3-fingered gripper (hand), along with friends and business partners, in a widely seen media event, the Robo-stox family used the robot to ring the closing bell of the NASDAQ exchange.
External links:
http://www.therobotreport.com/about
http://www.robostox.com/
Prof. Gianmarco Veruggio
Director of Research and Responsible for the operational unit of the Institute of electronics, computer and telecommunication engineering of Italian National Research Council in Genoa, Italy. The pioneer at internet use of robots. In 2002 roboticist Gianmarco Veruggio created the word roboethics, principles of humans behavior by constructing and using robots.
Prof. Veruggio – author of more than 150 scientific publications and more than a 100 of articles on Robotics in popular magazines.
External links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboethics
http://www.veruggio.it/
Kate Darling
Research Specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Yale Information Society Project. Kate is primarily interested in how the law intersects with technology. She writes about ways for the legal system to address robot anthropomorphism, holds robot ethics workshops, and lectures on some of the more interesting developments in the world of human-robot interaction, and where we might find ourselves in the coming decades. Kate is a contributor to the online platform Robohub.org.
External links:
http://about.me/katedarling
http://robohub.org/author/katedarling/
To register follow:
http://community.sk.ru/events/2134.aspx
See you all at Skolkovo Interntaional Robotics Conference!
Location:
The event will be held in the Hypercube, on the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, 1. Driving on the highway from Mozhayskoe center turn left on to the highway Skolkovskoe shosse, reaching it by The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO under the scheme.
Contact information:
Skoltech Communications
+7 (495) 280 14 81
