Schedule

Where and When

Workshop will be held on June 11, 2005
at: MIT Stata Center 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, Mass 02139

Morning Session

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.

Afternoon Session

From 2:30pm to 5pm, there is a video and poster session at MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robotics Lab, followed by demonstation of the humanoid robots in the lab.