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- Program of the WS on Service Robotics - - Nov 08, 2009
| Date | 8 November 2009 |
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| Venue | Waseda University, Tokyo
bldg.#63, conference room 2-04/05, Nishi-Waseda Campus |
| Organize | Embassy of Italy in Japan
"Italia in Giappone 2009" http://www.italia-in.jp/event/science.html |
| Co-Organize | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) |
| Entrance Fee |
Free
Open for public and no need to register in advance |
| Program Download | Italy-Japan_WS-Robot_Program.pdf |
| 9:00-9:10 |
Welcome by Alberto MENGONI
(Attache for Science and Technology, The Embassy of Italy) |
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| 9:10-9:45 |
Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda) What can Robot Technology do for us and for our society ? |
| 9:45-10:20 |
Cecilia Laschi (SSSA) Service Robotics in Urban Environments: the experience of the European DustBot Project |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40-11:15 |
Yoichi Takamoto (tmsuk Co., Ltd. ) Business Plan of tmsuk |
| 11:15-12:30 | Student Presentations |
| 12:30-13:20 | Lunch Break & Poster Session |
| 13:20-14:10 |
Service Robot demos: DustBot & RODEM
Poster Session |
| 14:10-14:20 | Break |
| 14:20-14:50 | Welcome address by Katsuhiko Shirai(President, Waseda) and Alfredo Maria DURANTE MANGONI(Minister-Counsellor, The Embassy of Italy) |
| 14:50-15:00 | Presentation of the students to Prof. Shirai |
| 15:00-15:35 |
Eugenio Guglielmelli (Universita Campus Bio-Medico)
Structural embodied intelligence for safe physical interaction in rehabilitation and assistive robotics |
| 15:35-16:10 |
Tatsuya Matsui (Flower Robotics, Inc.)
The Role of design for new robot industry development |
| 16:10-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30-17:05 |
Barbara Mazzolai (SSSA)
Service Robotics and Biorobotics for the Quality of the Environment |
| 17:05-17:40 |
Hiroshi Gonaikawa (Unify Research Inc.)
Perspective of the service robot industry |
| 17:40-18:40 |
Panel Discussion and Conclusion
(Chair: Paolo Dario and Atsuo Takanishi) |
Report
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The Italy-Japan Workshop on Service Robotics was organized in the framework of the "Italy in Japan 2009" initiative "The art of living and creating", and as a joint activity of the "Summer School in Autumn WSK-TNg 2009" coordinated by: Waseda University, Japan; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA), Italy; The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea; The University of Tsukuba, Japan; Nagoya University, Japan. This workshop followed the long tradition of joint events between Italy and Japan, beginning with the Year of Italy in 2001 with the workshop on "HUMANOIDS - A Techno-Ontological Approach" up to the more recent Italian Spring in 2007 with the symposium on "Robots are already among us!". This year Workshop was chaired by Prof. Cecilia Laschi of SSSA and by Prof. Atsuo Takanishi of Waseda. Several leading researchers from Italy and Japan both in academia and industry kindly accepted to present their point of view on service robotics and its role in current and future society, aiming at creating new collaborative activities in research, industry and services, as well as to motivate young students based on better understanding of state-of-the-art technologies of Italy/EU and Japan. The Panel discussions addressed the "practical issues and problems for the introduction of service robots in everyday life", aiming to propose research topics scientifically interesting and truly feasible, and concrete actions for Italy-Japan collaboration in education, research and industrial development. 
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