Robociety workshop Interactive robots in everyday life: Status, Challenges and Perspectives

While robots have been employed in industrial contexts since the 1960s and have since extended their sensorial and intelligent capabilities, the operation of today’s robots in everyday life is still very limited. Whether it be public places, work environments, or life at home, physical robots are in general not yet capable of meaningfully interacting with humans. Human Robot Interaction (HRI) – in contrast to HCI – did not yet make it to commercially successful applications relevant for everyday life.At our workshop, we will discuss the current status and technical challenges in relevant subdisciplines such as Speech Recognition and Dialogue Processing, Dexterous manipulation, Computer Vision, Mobile Robots and HRI as a discipline integrating all these fields. At the end of the workshop, we will discuss perspectives for the development of interactive robots that have the potential to intrude public life.  

Agenda 
10:00 Prof. Norbert Krüger: Welcome and Introduction
10:05 Prof. Ulrik Schultz: Autonomous Drones in Danish Society - Status and Challenges
10:30 Prof. Lazaros Nalpantidis (DTU): Computer Vision on Robots: Status and Challenges
10:55 Søren Udby (OUH): Learnings & Challenges in Developing and Implementing Robots in a Hospital
11:25 Prof. Henrik G. Petersen (SDU): Dexterous Manipulation: What is the application potential and what are the challenges
11:50 Assoc. Prof. Chen-Li (AAU): Conversational AI: Where We Are and What's NextFrom Chatbots to Embodied Agents
12:15 Discussion 

12:30 Lunch 

13:15 Jakob Sand (Hive Robotics): Deploying Humanoid Robots in Real-World Applications: Lessons from the Field
13:40 Assoc. Prof. Leon Bodenhagen (SDU): Status and Challenges in Human-Robot-Interaction
14:05 Assoc. Prof. Mika Yasuoka Jensen (RUC): Where Society Needs Telepresence Robots: Roles, Use-Cases, and Open Challenges 
14:30 Break
14:45 All: Moderated Discussion

• What are the use-cases that could make it?
• What are the obstacles on the way?
• What are appropriate steps in terms of fundraising and investments?

16:00 End