REMINDER: Robotics Seminar Series, Dr. Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples 2pm MEM Seminar Room

[M. Ani Hsieh]

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Title: Robots Moving Closer to Humans
Speaker: Dr. Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples Federico II
Date: Thu, Mar 28 @ 2pm
Location: MEM Seminar Room (162 Curtis)

Abstract
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Robots! Robots on Mars and in oceans, in hospitals and homes, in
factories and schools; robots fighting fires, making goods and
products, saving time and lives. Robots today are making a
considerable impact on many aspects of modern life, from industrial
manufacturing to healthcare, transportation, and exploration of the
deep space and sea. Tomorrow, robots will be as pervasive and personal
as today's personal computers. The dream to create machines that are
skilled and intelligent has been part of humanity from the beginning
of time. This dream is now becoming part of our world's striking
reality. Beyond its impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge
robotics has produced is revealing a much wider range of applications
reaching across diverse research areas and scientific disciplines,
such as: biomechanics, haptics, neurosciences, virtual simulation,
animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return, the
challenges of the new emerging areas are proving an abundant source of
stimulation and insights for the field of robotics. It is indeed at
the intersection of disciplines that the most striking advances
happen. Today, new communities of users and developers are forming,
with growing connections to the core of robotics research. A strategic
goal for the robotics community is one of outreach and scientific
cooperation with these communities. Future developments and expected
growth of the field will largely depend on the research community's
abilities to achieve this objective. This talk revisits 50 years and
more of research and development in robotics and provides the active
trends and perspectives of the field.

Speaker Bio
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Bruno Siciliano is Professor of Control and Robotics, and Director of
the PRISMA Lab in the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering
at University of Naples Federico II. His research interests include
force and visual control, human-robot interaction and service
robotics. He has co-authored 7 books, 70 journal papers, 170
conference papers and book chapters. He has delivered 100 invited
lectures and seminars at institutions worldwide, and he has been the
recipient of several awards. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME and IFAC. He
has served on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals
and has been chair of program and organizing committees of several
international conferences. He is Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in
Advanced Robotics, and of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which
received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences &
Mathematics and was also the winner in the category Engineering &
Technology. His group has been granted eleven European projects.
Professor Siciliano is the Past-President of the IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society.