Where and When
Workshop will be held on June 11, 2005 at:
MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, Mass
02139
Schedule
The panel sessions are open to
group discussion.
| 9:00-9:20 | Talk: Giorgio Metta (U. Genova) Mirror neurons and cognition: from physiology to robotics.
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| 9:20-9:40 | Talk: Steve Massaquoi (MIT) The current understanding of brain control for reaching.
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| 9:40-10:00 | Talk: Francisco Valero-Cuevas (Cornell) Identifying the functional mechanism by which biological hands meet the necessary and sufficient physical requirements for dexterous manipulation. (abstract) |
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| 10:00-10:25 | Panel: Metta, Massaquoi, and Valero-Cuevas Embodied and human-like manipulation. |
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| 10:25-10:40 | Tea break | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Talk: Deb Roy (MIT)
Language and Manipulation
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| 11:00-11:20 | Talk: Robert Ambrose (NASA JPL)
TBD.
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| 11:20-11:40 | Talk: Roderic Grupen (U. Mass. Amherst) Discovering Teleological Expanations for Manual Interactions.(abstract)
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| 11:40-12:00 | Talk: Rodney Brooks (MIT) Manipulation: 25 years from now.
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| 12:00-12:30 | Panel: Brooks, Grupen, Ambrose, and Roy. Challenges for manipulation in unstructured environments. |
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| 12:30- 2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00- 5:00 | Video and poster session at MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robotics Lab, including robot demonstations of |
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