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Jean-Paul Laumond "Robotics: Hephaistos reoffends"
venerdi 29 aprile 2011 ore
14.30
Aula Magna, Dipartimento di Informatica
e Sistemistica Antonio Ruberti - Via Ariosto, 25 Roma
Robotics is today celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Robotics was born out of a need to improve
production systems in manufacturing industry. In the 70’s robots became supports for research in artificial
intelligence. The 90’s saw major successes
for Robotics in spatial exploration and in
medicine. With the advent of the new millennium, robots aim at sharing
our own environment. What foundations is Robotics built on? The purpose of this talk is to address this question both from
the point of view of the ancient myth of
Hephaïstos, and with the support of recent
research results in humanoid robotics. After a brief reminder of Hephaïstos’ attempted rape of Athena,
we will see how Robotics today equips
Hephaïstos with modern weapons of seduction.
In the quest to provide machines with action autonomy, Robotics makes use of all possible ruses. The purity of some
problems is compromised by the vulgarity of
the approaches. The empirical approaches
imposed by the requirement of technological effectiveness (Hepthaistos) give the illusion of understanding (Athena).
Nevertheless, a corpus of mathematical
methods and approaches is emerging from Robotics. While its object remains centered on computational
machine autonomy, the questions Robotics asks
today find a strange resonance with human and
life science.
To conclude, we will oppose
our western mythology-based perspective to eastern animism. Such a comparison helps in better understanding the
role attributed to technology by our
societies.
Jean-Paul Laumond
Jean-Paul Laumond is a researcher in Robotics. He is the
chair of the Gepetto research group at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse,
France. He has been a member of the French Comité National de la Recherche
Scientifique from 1991 to 1995. From 2005 to 2008, he has been a co-director of
JRL-France, a French-Japanese laboratory on humanoid robotics. In 2001
and 2002 he created and managed Kineo CAM, a spin-off company from LAAS-CNRS
devoted to develop and market motion planning technology. Kineo CAM
was awarded the French Research Ministery prize for innovation and enterprise in
2000 and the third IEEE-IFR prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in
Robotics and Automation in 2005. His current research deals with Human Motion studies along three perspectives: artificial motion for humanoid
robots, virtual motion for digital actors and mannequins, and natural motions of
human beings. He teaches Robotics at Ecole Normale Supérieure in
Paris. He has edited three books. He has published more than 100 papers in
international journals and conferences in Computer Science, Automatic Control
and Robotics. He is 2006-7 IEEE
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Fellow and
member of the IEEE RAS AdCom
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