09/05/2011 - Lectures, Events, News
The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011) takes place from May 9 to 13, 2011, in Shanghai, China.
Reading time: 1 minuteThe 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011) takes place from May 9 to 13, 2011, in Shanghai, China. The theme of the conference is "Better Robots, Better Life", an xpectation that the ever growing technology in robotics and automation will help build a better human society. The School of Robotics has submitted two papers, which are to be presented on May 13th.
Fourth Workshop on Roboethics: "Better Robots, Better Life"
The Workshop is organized in the framework of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2011), to be held in Shanghai, China, from 9 to 13 May 2011.
It will be a whole day event, at the Shanghai International Conference Center and the Shangri-La Hotel Shanghai Pudong in Shanghai, China.
The Workshop is on the initiative of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Roboethics.
You can find the program at: www.roboethics.org (and in pdf below), here.
The Full Day Workshop on Roboethics is the fourth biennial event, organized by the Technical Committee on Roboethics in the framework of ICRA 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Roboethics is the ethics applied to robotics, that is the human-centered ethics guiding the design, construction and use of the robots. It deals with the study of the ethical, legal and social aspects of the introduction of robotics in our daily lives.
Progress in the field of computer science and tele-communications allows us to endow machines with enough intelligence so that they may act autonomously. However; as the application field for robots is widening, and the robot is coming out of the factory halls, Robotics research is increasingly raising ethical implications, related to the emerging interactions between robots and human beings.
Roboethics shares many "sensitive areas" with computer ethics, information ethics, bioethics and not only roboticists, but also sociologists, psychologists and philosophers are discussing the potentialities and the limits of robotics to help building a better human society.
To this aim, this workshop will increase robotics researcher’s ethical awareness, in the context of the ever growing interdisciplinarity that will characterize the new generation of robotics research.
Furthermore, on May 13th, Gianmarco Veruggio talks at the workshop "A New Generation of Educational Robots" with a paper on "The methodological continuum in Educational robotics, from Kindergarten to College", developed in collaboration with the School of Robotics.