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Special Guest Lecture: Humanoid Robots Creator Hiroshi Ishiguro

Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro, a visionary who made a copy of himself and heads the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University will give two guest lectures at Skoltech.

Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro, a visionary who made a copy of himself and heads the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University will give two guest lectures at Skoltech.

Actroid. Telenoid. Gemenoid. These are only three of the many android brainchildren of Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro.

Renowned worldwide for his humanoid robots, the Japanese visionary who made a copy of himself and heads the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University – is coming to Skoltech.

Hosted by Prof Dzmitry Tsetserukou, head of Skoltech’s Space Lab, Ishiguro will give two guest lectures at the Beijing auditorium (Moscow School of Management).

May 14, 14:00-15:30  Androids and Our Future Life

May 15 12:00-14:00  Adaptation to Tele-operated Anthropomorphic Robots

Registration (in Russian): https://skoltech-2015.timepad.ru/event/206268/notify=new_event/

Lectures’ abstract:

Personal computers and smartphones have changed our lifestyle. After the rise of information media, the next generation of technology, i.e. interactive robots that provide various communication services, may change our life again. In the near future we may live in the robot society.

Prof. Ishiguro, one of the pioneers of interactive robot research and the creator of the very first humanlike androids, will talk about the possibility of a ‘robot society’ and introduce various androids that are can and will be integrated into our daily life.

 

Colloquium: Smart Robots and Robo-ethics

Our guest speakers at the Skoltech Colloquium will discuss smart robots- applications and the implications for society.

Our guest speakers at the Skoltech Colloquium will discuss smart robots- applications and the implications for society.

We are pleased to invite you to the Skoltech Colloquium with guest speakers Professor Kazuhiko Terashima (Toyohashi University of Technology) and Gianmarco Veruggio (Scuola di Robotica, Genoa). The guest speakers will present various applications and discuss the ethical aspects of ‘smart’ robots.

When: March 19, 4 pm

Where:  Moscow School of Management, Beijing-1 Auditorium – China cluster

Guest speaker:  Professor Kazuhiko Terashima, System and Control Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

What: Smart Robotic Hospital to Lead a Rich Life in Super Aging Society – Innovative Nursing and Rehabilitation Robot.

Abstract: We have developed a robot that accompanies healthcare professionals making rounds in wards at hospitals. This novel robot mainly executes two tasks: carrying armamentarium and recording data on rounds. An omnidirectional mobile mechanism and a human tracking control system to follow a specified medical professional realize smooth transfer movement from a nurses station to wards. Data on rounds is automatically recorded by a CCD camera and a voice recorder. When the robot is connected via a cable to a medical data server, the robot transmits patients’ data to the server and receives new patients’ information.

Guest speakers: Gianmarco Veruggio, Chair of the Scientific Committee, Scuola di Robotica, Genoa, Italy

What: Roboethics: ethical, legal and social aspects of robotics

Abstract: Roboethics is ethics applied to robotics, i.e., the human-centered ethics guiding the design, construction and use of robots.  It deals with the study of the ethical, legal and social aspects of the introduction and use of robots in our daily lives.  Progress in the field of computer science and tele-communications allows us to endow machines with enough intelligence so that they already can act autonomously (to some degree).  However, as the application domains for robots are increasing and robots are coming out of the factory halls, robotics research is increasingly raising ethical implications, related to the emerging interactions between robots and human beings.  Roboethics shares many “sensitive areas” with computer ethics, information ethics, bioethics and not only roboticists, but also.

 

We are looking forward to seeing you.

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Seminar May 21: The wearable robots that make you feel love. Or a tickle

Think of the following situations:

* Wearing a robot that makes you feel as happy – or sad – as your friend while you’re instant messaging.

* Nurses train in life saving techniques by carrying external skeletons that weigh exactly like a real patient.

* Putting on a technology that makes your body sensitive to faraway objects.

It all does sound a bit like sci-fi.   But wearable haptic technology, or haptics, is very real.

Originally it meant ‘to touch’ in Greek. Nowadays it is described as “doing for the sense of touch what computer graphics did for vision”. And what’s revolutionary about this hot research topic is that is has serious real world applications.

In this week’s Skoltech Seminar, Dr. Dzmitry Tsetserukou explores, explains and demonstrates some of the most amazing – and very real – applications of wearable tech.

May 21, 2014
13.30 – 15.00
Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster (Skolkovo School of Management)

Title: «Nanoscale simulations for clean renewable wearable haptic technologies for telexistence, telecommunication, and medical applications»

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

Wearable haptic technology is a category of devices incorporating electronic technology and haptic actuators for presentation of tactile stimuli (force, vibration, pressure, temperature) to the wearer. The talk will focus on four mainstream projects employing wearable interfaces with haptic feedback: NAVIgoid, NurseSim, LinkTouch, and iFeel_IM!.

NAVIgoid consists of a master wearable robot and intelligent mobile robot. The developed interface allows the operator to use their body posture and gestures for controlling the mobile robot and at the same time to feel remote objects through sense of touch.

NurseSim is a novel VR simulator for nurses who become better at carrying an unconscious persons and maintain their posture correctly by wearing a haptic exoskeleton. Nurses lift the ‘body’ of care-receiver in simulated 3D environment. The haptic display generates a sensation of the patient’s weight.

LinkTouch is an innovative wearable haptic device with a five-bar linkage mechanism for presentation of 2-DoF force feedback at the finger pad. The application of Link-Touch for a wrist-worn device capable of online blood pressure measurement will be demonstrated.

iFeel_IM! is an intelligent system for feeling enhancement. It is powered by affect sensitive Instant Messenger which intensifies feelings and reproduces the emotions felt by a partner during online communication. The system elicits emotions by rich haptic and visual stimuli.

Photo-2SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:

Dzmitry Tsetserukou received the Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he was a JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Toyohashi University of Technology. He is a member of the IEEE since 2005, VRSJ and the author of over 70 technical publications, 3 patents and a book .

He received Best Paper Award at Augmented Human 2010, and Best Student Presentation Award at I RAGO 2013 as coauthor. Dzmitry was an organizer of the first Workshop on Affective Haptics at IEEE Haptics Symposium 2012.

 

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

 

 

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

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