Event Details
Saturday, March 24, 2018, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
1216 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106
Far beyond sweeping rooms or “echoing” answers to your questions, useful—even necessary --robots that interact with us psychologically are emerging and will grow in a big way, if only driven by the increasing demographic of elderly, disabled or temporarily limited people. But elegant laboratory demo’s beg the question: can truly useful robots be cost effectively provided for other than the rich, i.e., at prices affordable to large numbers of people or acceptable to insurers or the Government. Might one solution be a “meals on wheels”-like offering to the elderly where a visiting robot is one of many tele-guided by a remote human controller? On the other hand, what about robots to teach, watch, and interact with children?
All of these implicate a 2-way psychological dimension in human-robot ecosystems – our reactions to robots and robotic perception of our state of mind. Unsurprisingly, socially assistive robotics (SAR) has emerged as a field for machines assisting via social interaction where a robot’s physical appearance induces people to engage with it. Our program will delve into the uniquely different problems and the entrepreneurial opportunities “psycho-active, economically accessible robots” introduce compared to impersonal industrial or service applications. Get Tickets.
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Maja Mataric
Chan Soon-Shiong Chair in the Computer Science Department, Neuroscience Program, and the Department of Pediatrics
University of Southern California
Speakers:
Ross Mead, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Semio AI, Inc.
Adrian Kaehler, Ph.D.
CEO, Giant.AI Inc.
Author “Learning OpenCV 3”
Producers:
Michael (Mickey) Krieger
Attorney at Law
Willenken Wilson Loh & Delgado LLP
UCLA Computer Science Department
Andy Tomat
Managing Director
Four Pillars, Inc.
Julie-ann Pina
Managing Partner
CFOrganizers
Networking with refreshments from 8:00 - 9:00 AM / Program: 9:00 - 11:30 AM
- Saturday — March 24, 2018
9:00AM - 11:30AM - Caltech � Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
1216 E California Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91125
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