Program for Day 1 10:00 a.m. ‒ 5:45 p.m., 31st Jan.

9:30 －Site Open

10:00 － 10:10

Takao Onoye (Osaka University)

Opening Remarks

10:10 － 10:25

Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University)

Session 1 “Cognitive Robotics”

10:25 － 11:10 Giulio Sandini (Italian Institute of Technology)“Developing Familiarity with Assistive Robots”

Takao Onoye

11:10 － 11:55

Alex Pitti (CNRS/University of Cergy-Pontoise)

11:55 － 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 － 14:30

Poster Session & Coﬀee Break

14:30 － 15:15

Minoru Asada (Osaka University)

15:15 － 16:00

Filippo Santoni de Sio (Delft University of Technology)16:00 － 16:15

Coﬀee Break“Understanding the Development of Embodied Cognition
with Brain-inspired Models and Robots”

Session 2 “Poster Presentation”

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Giulio SandiniAlex Pitti

Session 3 “Technology, Ethics, and Culture”“Artiﬁcial Moral Agents with Artiﬁcial Pain”“Meaningful Human Control and Moral Responsibilityfor Robots”

16:15 － 17:00

Giulio Mecacci (Delft University of Technology)“Operationalising Meaningful Human Control into
Technical and Institutional Design Requirements”

17:00 － 17:45

Minoru Asada

Filippo Santonide Sio

Fiorenzo Marco Galli(National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci)“Technologies for Glocal Solutions”

18:00 － 20:00 Banquet
Venue: Stella Maris, The Westin Osaka

Giulio Mecacci

Fiorenzo Marco Galli

Symbiotic Intelligence Systems Research Center,
Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University
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StationResearch Overview in SISReC
The Center comprises ﬁve, closely interacting

The intelligent robotics group, in coopera-

research groups, as is illustrated in the ﬁguretion with the cognitive and neuro-science group,1) the intelligent robotics group aims to build amodels of human beings—to fundamental prob-

below:

model of and constructively understand humanbeings and to develop humanlike androids andpartner robots capable of amicably engaging
with human beings;

2) the cognitive and neuro-science group aims topursue fundamental problems concerning intelligence, embodiment, etc. by using developed
intelligent robots and information systems;

will adopt a constructive approach—i.e., use robot
lems concerning intelligence, body, embodiment,

multi-modal integration, intention/desire, consciousness, sociality, etc. by using intelligent
robots and information systems.

The intelligent robotics group is supported by thesensing research and information network
research groups.

In pursuing fundamental problems con-3) the sensing research group aims to measurecerning human beings and societies, they will

intelligent systems including human beings andworld and test the functions of intelligent systems

and analyze complex social relationships amongrobots;4) the information network group aims to devel-

op tools for social-experimental studies of suchcomplex social relationships among intelligent
systems; and5) the sociology, ethics, and philosophy groupaims to study the mutual relationships among
human beings, societies, and technologies.

expand experimental environments to the real
in real-world experiments on the campuses ofOsaka University and in the city of Osaka.

The sociology, ethics, and philosophy group willplace the observations and experiments they conduct in cooperation with the other research groups

in social contexts, and address potential problems
in the society in which human beings and robots
cohabit.

Symbiotic Intelligence Systems Research Center,
Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University
https://sisrec.otri.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/