Chairs: Erica Baffelli, Minoru Asada and Angelo Cangelosi
Speakers and Topics:
Minoru Asada (Osaka University): Cognitive Robotics and AI
Erica Baffelli (The University of Manchester): Robots, Religion, Buddhism
Paolo Benanti (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome): Ethics, Technology, Religion
Angelo Cangelosi (The University of Manchester): Cognitive Robots, Human-robot Interaction
Antonio Chella (Università di Palermo): Machine and Robot Consciousness
Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge): Embodied Intelligence and Bio-robotics
Scott Midson (The University of Manchester): Robot, Religion, Ethics
Yukie Nagai (Tokyo University): Human-robot Interaction
Beth Singler (University of Zurich:) Digital Religion and AI
Gabriele Trovato (Shibaura Institute of Technology): Robots and Religion
Agenda:
9.15-9.30am Welcome greetings (Baffelli and Cangelosi)
9.30-11am Roundtable 1 Robots and Religion
Chair: Baffelli
Speakers: Midson, Benanti, Trovato
11-11.30am Coffee break
11.30am-1pm Roundtable 2 Ethics and AI human-robots Interactions
Chair: Midson
Speakers: Chella, Asada, Singler
1-2.30pm Lunch
2.30-4pm Roundtable 3 Human-robots Interactions
Chair: Cangelosi
Speakers: Nagai, Iida, Huang
4-4.30pm Final discussion
Chair: Asada
Organisers: FeRN (Fear Research Network) and Centre for Robotics and AI
Sponsor: JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
