Workshop on RoboCom++ FET-Flagship-Proof-of-Concept Project at RO-MAN 2017

Posted by RoboCom++ Team
On 10 September 2017

August 28, 2017 – Lisbon, Portugal

Europe is facing major problems and a number of challenges threatening the future quality of life and prosperity of EU citizens. Robots can be a solution to some of these challenges. Robots based on the current technological and scientific paradigm, although successful, encounter serious problems to perform daily life activities and complex tasks in real-world poorly structured environments. In fact, in the mechatronic paradigm adopted in current robots system complexity increases and robustness decreases more than linearly when complexity in the desired behaviours and application environments increases.

The main objectives of this workshop is to offer new insights on the next generations of Robot Companions for citizens, capable of overcoming the inherent limitations of current robots. It aims at identifying new design paradigms, grounded on Nature principles in order to develop the Robots of the future which will interact and co-operate with humans in disruptively new ways.

List of topics

Robotics

Soft Robotics

Bioinspired Robotics

Morphological Computation

Cognitive Robotics

Intelligent Materials

Artificial Muscles

Flexible electronics

Collaborative Robots

Robot Companions and Social Robots

Limits of current approaches

Beyond mechatronics paradigms

Life science vs Robotics vs cognition

Deep Learning applications for Robotics

Neuromorphic chips for Robot brains

Reproducible Research

Robotics as a science

Ethical, Legal, Economic and Social Aspects

Workshop Programme

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Call for papers

We welcome prospective participants to submit abstracts (up to 300 words) or extended abstracts (up to 2 pages). We especially encourage abstracts on new ideas or research that the authors plan to conduct; feedback can be given during coffee breaks or during discussions.
Abstract format should be according to the RO-MAN 2017 paper guidelines (IEEE format).
Submissions should be in PDF format via email.

Submission System

Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 10, 2017
Acceptance notification: July 15, 2017

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secretariat@robocomplusplus.eu

Main Organiser

Paolo Dario
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Italy
+39 050 883401; +39 348 8863117
paolo.dario@sssup.it

Co-organisers

Dario Floreano
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
dario.floreano@epfl.ch

Philippe Souères
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/LAAS (CNRS-LAAS), France
soueres@laas.fr

Barbara Mazzolai
Istituto Italia di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
barbara.mazzolai@iit.it

Cecilia Laschi
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Italy
cecilia.laschi@santannapisa.it

Fabio Bonsignorio
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Italy
fabio.bonsignorio@santannapisa.it

Stefano Mazzoleni
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Italy
stefano.mazzoleni@santannapisa.it

Clementina Cruceli
The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Italy
clementina.cruceli@santannapisa.it