The theme of the workshop is: The confluence of humans and robots


The meeting will have three parts.
   Part 1: Presentations and round table  (9:00-12:30)
   Part 2: Focused discussion - invitees only (14:00-16:00)
   Part 3: Panel with public audience (approx 20:00-21:30)

Participants (invited, several more to be determined to a target of ~20):
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA (Honorary Chair)
Rachid Alami, LAAS-Toulouse, France
Karsten Berns, University of Kauserslaten, Germany
Mohamed Chetouani, ISIR-UPMC, France
Geert De Cubber, Military Royal Academy, Belgium
Daniel David, Univ Babes-Bolyai, Cluj, Romania
Ioan Doroftei, TUI, Romania
RĂ¼diger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Mustafa Sufi Erden, ENSTA, France
Anna Esposito, Sec. Univ of Naples, Italy,
Paolo Fiorini: University of Verona, Italy
Dirk Lefeber,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Javier Minguez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Julian Savulescu, Oxford University, UK
Adrian Stoica, NASA-JPL, Caltech, USA (Chair)
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu,TUI, Romania


 Morning and early afternoon at RAMADA Hotel, (Paris Saloon)
9:00-9:30 Introductions - all
9:30-12:30 Short presentations and round table discussion
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University,USA
Rachid Alami, LAAS-Toulouse, France
Geert De Cubber, Military Royal Academy, Belgium
Daniel David, Univ Babes-Bolyai, Cluj, Romania
Mustafa Sufi Erden, ENSTA, France
Anna Esposito, Sec. Univ of Naples, Italy,
Paolo Fiorini: University of Verona, Italy
Dirk Lefeber,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Adrian Stoica, NASA-JPL, Caltech, USA

  Part 2: Focused discussion - (14:00-16:00)
2:00 - 2:30 Theme 1:  State of the art and trends in social and cognitive robotics
2:30 - 3:00 Theme 2: Confluence of humans and robots: physical colocation/interaction
3:00 - 3:30 Theme 3: Confluence: psychical/cognitive interactions
3:30 - 3:00 Theme 4: Confluence: cyborgs, networked world, transuhmanism

  Part 3: Evening Public Lecture at the Main Conference Room of the Technical University of Iasi (Rectorat, Bd Mangeron)
18-19:30 Oussama Khatib, Stanford University,USA
Robots and the Human

 This is an invitation-only meeting.  Please contact Adrian Stoica if you are interested in attending.
Adrian.Stoica@JPL.NASA.GOV

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