| 9:00-9:05 |
Welcome: The Organizers |
| 9:05-9:25 |
Talk: Rodney Brooks (MIT)
Manipulation in unstructured environments
|
| 9:25-9:45 |
Talk: Roderic Grupen (U. Mass. Amherst)
Mobile manipulation and grasping.
|
| 9:45-10:15 |
Panel: Brooks, Grupen, Tomas Lozano-Perez
Discussion: Are behavior-based approaches appropriate for humanoid manipulation?
|
| 10:15-10:30 |
Tea break |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Talk: Robert Ambrose (NASA JPL)
Primate design tips.
|
| 10:50-11:10 |
Talk: Deb Roy (MIT)
Grasping and grounding.
|
| 11:10-11:40 |
Panel: Ambrose, Roy
Embodied and human-like manipulation. |
| 11:40-1:20 |
Lunch |
| 1:20-1:40 |
Talk: Giorgio Metta (U. Genova)
Lessons from neuroscience.
|
| 1:40-2:00 |
Talk: Steve Massaquoi (MIT)
Cerebellar involvement.
|
| 2:00-2:30 |
Panel: Massaquoi, Metta
Manipulation from a biological perspective. |
The panel sessions are open to
group discussion.