Schedule

Where and When

Workshop will be
held on June 11, 2005 at:

MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, Mass
02139

Tentative Schedule

Note: the speakers, talks, and subjects listed here are tentative.

The panel sessions are open to group discussion.

 9:00- 9:05 Welcome: The Organizers
9:05-9:25 Talk: Giorgio Metta (U. Genova)
TBD.
9:25-9:45 Talk: Steve Massaquoi (MIT)
TBD.
9:45-10:05 Talk: Deb Roy (MIT)
TBD.
10:05-10:35 Panel: Roy, Metta, and Massaquoi
Embodied and human-like manipulation.
10:35-10:50 Tea break
 10:50-11:10 Talk: Rodney Brooks (MIT)
TBD.
 11:10-11:30 Talk: Roderic Grupen (U. Mass. Amherst)
TBD.
 11:30-11:50 Talk: Robert Ambrose (NASA JPL)
TBD.
11:50-12:20 Panel: Brooks, Grupen, and Ambrose.
Challenges for manipulation in unstructured environments.
12:20- 2:00 Lunch
 2:00- 5:00 Video and poster session at MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robotics Lab, including robot demonstations of
  1. Domo
  2. Obrero
  3. Mertz
  4. The Barrett WAM Arm
  5. The Shadow Hand