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PERSPECTIVES ON ROBOTS: A Reality Check of Imagined Futures

REELER end-conference with webinar December 11 in Copenhagen

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 11 December 2019,  at 13:00 - 16:00

Location

Danish School of Education, AU, Campus Copenhagen. Room 220.

REELER end-conference: technology has never been more invasive and disruptive than in present day Europe. Robotization, coupled with artificial intelligence, is transforming both homes, public institutions like schools and hospitals, as well as workplaces at a pace that can only be described as accelerating.

The REELER project will present results based on extensive ethnographic and economic research into robot design, development, implementation and related ethical challenges conducted by the interdisciplinary team of researchers in REELER. We show how robots a typically developed within an inner circle of robotics with very little involvement of the people being affected by robots.

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AGENDA:

  • 13.00-13.10: Check-in live and online
  • 13.10-13.20: Welcome to REELER and webinar by Prof. Cathrine Hasse, Project Coordinator
  • 13.20-13.40:  Ethnographic research in robotics by research assistant Jessica Sorensen and postdoc Karolina Zawieska
  • 13.40-13.50: Mentimeter responses
  • 13.50-14.10: Experimental approaches: Socio drama and Mini-Publics by Prof. Kathleen Richardson and Prof. Cathrine Hasse
  • 14.10-14.20: Mentimeter responses
  • 14.20-14.40: Coffee break
  • 14.40-14.50: Development of robots: coping with uncertainty, bounded rationality, and complexity by Prof. Andreas Pyka
  • 14.50-15.00: Economic impact of robotization: Just the usual structural change? by postdoc Ben Vermeulen
  • 15.00-15.10: Mentimeter responses
  • 15.10-15.20: REELER Toolbox, BuildBot and BRICKSTER by R&D Director Maria Bulgheroni
  • 15.20-15.40: Summing up on perspectives on robots by REELER partners
  • 15.45-16.00: Fairground. Opportunity to play BuildBot or BRICKSTER, surf the REELER Toolbox and REELER Roadmap and get a copy of New Perspectives on Robots for conference guests.

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REGISTRATION:

Please register as conference participant or webinar participant via this link: https://events.au.dk/REELER/signup.

Participation is free, but registration is necessary and binding.