Opening Keynote archived Martin Haegele Chair of the Service Robotics Group International Federation of Robotics Head of Department, Robot Systems Fraunhofer IPA Institute E-mail 1st International Advanced Robotics E-Symposium Opening Keynote Presentation Title The New Age of Advanced Robotics Contact Fraunhofer IPA Institut Nobelstr. 12 D-70569 Stuttgart Germany T. +49 (0)711 970 1203 www.ipa.fraunhofer.de Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Martin Haegele received his degree as Diplom-Ingenieur in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1989 and his degree of Master of Science in Engineering Science (Solid Mechanics and Materials Science) from the George Washington University in Washington DC, USA. In 1989 he started working at Fraunhofer IPA in robotics development and application. In 1993 he was promoted to Head of Department ”Robot Systems” and has been appointed a member of the Fraunhofer IPA managing board in 2001. Martin Haegele holds 4 patents and several awards such as the ”Award of the German Association of Machine Tools Manufacturers (VDW)” in 1990, the ”Innovation Award of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA)” in 1995 and the ”Grand Prix Europeen de l’Innovation et des Technologies Nouvelles” in 1998.

Speaker archived Sukhan Lee Professor, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University Director, Intelligent Systems Research Center Vice President IEEE Robotics & Automation Society E-mail Presentation Category Service Robotics - Robot Navigation Session Type technical Presentation Title Navigation for Home Service Robots Contact Information & Communications Security Laboratory School of Information and Communication Engineering, Natural Science Campus Sungkyunkwan University 300 Cheoncheon-dong Jangan-gu Suwon-si Gyeonggi-do 440-746 KOREA T. +82 31 290 7150 Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Since March 2003 Dr. Sukhan Lee is a Professor of the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, one of the top ranked private universities in Korea, owned by Samsung. He is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Research Officer of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) which carries out research in future technologies to establish new frontiers through technological innovations and to provide Samsung-affiliated companies with the seeds for new business development. Dr. Lee has joined SAIT in 1998. Before that he has worked 15 years in USA in different responsible positions e.g. at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) and at the University of Southern California (associate and full professor). University in Korea and is a member of Korean National Academy of Science. Dr. Lee has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea. He owns several US Patents and has written more than 250 papers in professional journals and conference proceedings. He has got numerous awards e.g. from NASA (12 Awards on Technical Innovations) and IEEE, and has a remarkable list of professional activities and responsible positions in different organizations, committees and societies.

Speaker archived JO Gray Director of the Centre for Robotics and Automation Salford University Chairman, IEE Robotics & Mechatronics Group E-mail Presentation Category Service Robotics - Human-Friendly Robots Session Type technical Presentation Title Biomimetics and Soft Systems Contact Centre for Robotics and Automation School of Computing, Science and Engineering, Newton Building, Salford University, Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT UK T. +44 (0) 161 2955952 F. +44 (0) 161 295 5975 Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Prof. John O Gray is Director of the Centre for Robotics and Automation and Professor at the Faculty of Science, Engineering and the Environment Research Institute at the University of Salford in the UK. He is well known for his research in Architectures for advanced robotic operation, Aspects of Concurrent Engineering, Control Systems,Sensors, Architecture for Advanced Robotic Operation, Robotics and Automation in Food Manufacturing and Medical Robotics.

Sponsor archived Albert Van Breemen Senior Scientist Philips Research E-mail Presentation Category Personal Robotics - Human-Robot Interaction Session Type sponsorship Presentation Title iCat User-Interface Robot Contact Philips Research Prof. Holstlaan 4 Eindhoven NL-5656 AA Netherlands T. +31 40 2743440 F. +31 40 2745033 Corporate Homepage iCat flyer Technical Sponsor Showcase Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Since 2002, Albert Van Breemen has been working as Senior Scientist on the topic of user-interface robots at Philips Research. A user-interface robot is a mediator between a user and its home environment. It should be convient for a user to communicate with the robot. Therefore, he is focussing on robots that are able to show facial expressions. The software foundation of these robots is a dedicated robot middleware layer called Dynamic Module Library. DML is based on my PhD research on agent-based multi-controller systems. It extends Mr Van Breemen's PhD work by adding runtime interactivity. This means: Runtime extendability: Algorithms of software modules can be changed at runtime, the robot application can be extended with new modules at run-time, and ingoing and outgoing data of modules can be probed at runtime. Runtime robustness: Stopping (or crashing) one or more modules of a running robot application should not result into an overall stopping (or crashing) of the robot application. Runtime configurability: New configurations of modules can be made at runtime (that is, the connections between the modules can be changed at runtime). DML has been developed together with Dennis Taapken, who implemented major part of the software. Albert van Breemen is actively involved in setting up the European Robotics Platform EUROP. Further Reading http://users.pandora.be/vanbreemen/publications.html

Speaker archived Henrik I Christensen Director, Centre for Autonomous Systems Royal Institute of Technology E-mail Presentation Category Advanced Robotics - Trends & Markets Session Type technical Presentation Title Current & Emerging Applications Contact Kungl Tekniska Högskolan SE-100 44 Stockholm Tel. +46 8 790 6792 Fax +46 8 723 0302 GSM +46 70 670 6240 Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Henrik I Christensen is the director of the Centre for Autonomous Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, and a chaired professor of computer science specialising in autonomous systems, with the Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis. He does research on mobile robotics, autonomous systems, computer vision, and biologically inspired robot systems. The overall emphasis is on a holistic approach to design of systems, including mathematically well defined methods for design, analysis and implementation of systems. A fundamental idea is that methods should be evaluated in realistic settings which involved an interesting scenario and a full systems context. He is the co-founder of the company Intelligent Machines and serves as a scientific advisor to Evolution Robotics. Research cooperation involves research labs and companies on three continents. In addition he is actively involved in a number of community efforts in particular as the coordinator of the EU network of excellence in Robotics - EURON, that coordinates research, education, industrial links and publishing across Europe. Henrik is a fellow of the International Foundation of Robotics Research and serves as an IEEE RAS distinguished lecturer (2004-2006). He also serves on the board of trustees of the STINT foundation. Henrik teaches a course on behaviour based robotics, and a graduate course on general robotics. In addition he supervises a number of M.Sc. projects and PhD students.

Round Table archived Moderator The Panel Christoph Bartneck Assistant Professor Eindhoven University of Technology E-mail Cynthia Breazeal Ass. Prof. Media Arts & Sciences Director of the Robotic Life Group MIT E-mail Aude Billard SNF Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL E-mail Alan Schultz Director Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence E-mail Debate: How to make robots interact with the general public « View Archived Round Table

Speaker archived Raja Chatila Research Director Robotics and Artificial Intelligence LAAS-CNRS E-mail Presentation Category Personal Robotics Session Type technical Presentation Title Towards The Cognitive Robot Companion Contact LAAS-CNRS 7, avenue du Colonel Roche 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4 - France Phone: +33 (0)5 61 33 63 44 Fax: +33 (0)5 61 33 64 55 Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Raja Chatila is Director of Research at the french national research center (CNRS), received his Ph.D. in control science from the University of Toulouse in 1981. He was one year with the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1982. Since 1983, he has been a research scientist at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, where he leads presently the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group. He performs research on mobile robotics, architectures for planning and control, and perception and environment representation. He lead projects on intervention robots and planetary rovers. He has over 90 international publications on several aspects of mobile robotics. He is currently chair the computer and control science section of the french National Committee of Scientific Research which evalutes french research laboratories.

Sponsor archived Walid Norris Marketing Coordinator Sony Entertainment Robot Europe E-mail Presentation Category Personal Robotics - Robotic Toys - Trends & Developments Session Type sponsorship Presentation Title The AIBO Robot - Present & Future Contact Sony Entertainment Europe Da Vincilaan 7 - D1 B-1935 Zaventem Belgium T. +32 2 708 56 87 F. +32 2 708 56 70 Corporate Homepage Technical Sponsor Showcase Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Having joined Sony Europe from business school, Walid Norris has been managing the European marketing operations of Sony Entertainment Robot Europe since August 2002. Walid Norris, Marketing Coordinator of Sony Entertainment Robot Europe will be discussing the entertainment robot projects that Sony has been leading since 1993. The initial part of the presentation will cover the origin of the AIBO concept which will shed light on the motivations and goals that drove Sony to invest in the conception of AIBO and once again become the brave pioneers of an entirely new field. Spanning from 1993 to 1999, Walid will be covering the evolution and challenges of the first AIBO prototypes right up until the launch of the very first commercially available entertainment robot, the ERS-110. From here, the second generation of AIBO will be uncovered to finally bring the latest and greatest entertainment robot created to date, the third generation AIBO ERS-7, into the limelight. The customer-centric focus of the AIBO product and concept development will also be touched upon by showing the steps Sony has taken to build an intricate and fruitful relationship with AIBO customers. In this area, Sony has also pioneered a new aspect of CRM marketing.

Round Table archived Moderator The Panel Paul Johnston President & CEO Precarn Incorporated President, IFR E-mail Peter Meekin Managing Director Trident Capital E-mail Adele Newton Director, Industry and Government Relations Institute for Quantum Computing University of Waterloo E-mail Neena Buck Vice President of Emerging Frontiers, Strategy Analytics E-mail Debate: Technology Transfer & Investment - From Lab To Market « View Archived Round Table

Speaker archived William Red L. Whittaker Fredkin Research Professor Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University E-mail Presentation Category Mobile Robotics - Field Robots Session Type technical Presentation Title Racing for the Future - The DARPA Grand Challenge Contact The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA http://www.ri.cmu.edu Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Dr. William L. "Red" Whittaker is a Principal Scientist with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Field Robotics Center which he founded in 1986. His research centers on mobile robots in field environments such as work sites and natural terrain; computer architechtures to control mobile robots; modeling and planning for non-repetitive tasks; complex problems of objective sensing in random or dynamic environments; and integration of complete robot systems. Projects u nder Dr. Whittaker's direction include unmanned robots to explore planetary surfaces and volcano interiors, automation of mining machines and farm equipment, remote worksystems for nuclear facility decommissioning, mobile robots for hazardous waste site investigation, and autonomous land vehicle navigation. Dr. Whittaker has also been thesis advisor for six Ph.D. recipients. Dr. Whittaker has recieved numerous awards, includiong Pittsburgh's 1994 Man of the Year for Technology and Carnegie Mellon's Te are Award for Teaching Excellence. Science Digest named him on of the top 100 U.S. innovators in 1985 for hos work in robotics. He has served on several select review panels, including the National Academy of Sciences Peer Review Committee on DOE Environmental Management Technologies; the National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board; and the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Provide Interim Oversight of the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex. He is a member of the Center for the Commercial Development of Space, the Space Studies Institute, The American Nuclear Society Robotics and Remote Systems Division and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Round Table archived Moderator The Panel Neena Buck Vice President of Emerging Frontiers, Strategy Analytics E-mail Walid Norris Marketing Coordinator Sony Entertainment Robot Europe E-mail Jeanne Dietsch CEO, ActivMedia Robotics E-mail Andrew Silverthorne President PALSrobotics E-mail Debate: Mass Commercialisation of Robots - The Challenge « View Archived Round Table

Closing Keynote archived Val-Pierre Genton Managing Director e-symposium Ltd AdRob E-Symposium Co-Chair E-mail 1st International Advanced Robotics E-Symposium Closing Keynote Presentation Title Continued International Dialogue: The Seed for Market Growth Contact e-symposium Ltd 131 Curtain Road London EC2A 3BX United Kingdom T. +44 (0)20 7613 0800 W. www.e-symposium.com Download Presentation » Join Presentation « View Archived Presentation Speaker Bio & Further Reading Val-Pierre Genton is an experienced specialist within the field of B2B Internet. Val-Pierre has an established and recognised background in Business-to-Business Strategic Marketing, Business Development and Research & Development within the fields of conferences, publishing and vortals (vertical portals). After a string of appointments in middle- and senior management with companies such as the IIR (International Institute of Research) and Reed Business Information he co-founded e-symposium Ltd in 1999 and has grown the company to one of the world's leading B2B New Media companies. The company is internationally renowned for its clear, user-friendly and cutting edge web conferences, as well as their objective, professional content. The e-symposium concept is a revolutionary format designed to create a unique industry intelligence platform for industry professionals in selected niche industries (Robotics, Biometrics, Cybercrime, Homeland Security and New Energy to name a few). This innovative formula facilitates industry intelligence gathering and stimulates knowledge sharing amongst industry professionals. The e-symposium concept has attracted international interest and acclaim from industry. Val-Pierre Genton is a member of the Internet Society, a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a member of the Institute of Directors and he is also on the advisory council of numerous communication and Internet committees. He is in demand as a speaker and is a regular writer for numerous newsletters and industry publications on topics surrounding the business-to-business new media landscape.