Plenary Speaker 1: Professor Henrik Hautop Lund (Center for Playware, Technical
University of Denmark, Denmark)Title: Robotics for Growing LifeHenrik Hautop Lund, Ph.D., Professor, Center for
Playware, Technical University of Denmark.
Education: 1995: MSc Computer Science. 2000: Ph.D.
Computer System Engineering.
Employment:
1992-93 & 1994-95: The National Research Council,Rome, Italy.
1996-1997: Research associate (Post Doc). Departmentof AI, University of Edinburgh, UK.
1998-2000: Head of LEGO Lab. Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus,Denmark.
2000-2008: Full Professor. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller Institute for Production
Technology, SDU.
2009-present: Full Professor. Technical University of Denmark (DTU Elektro). Head ofCenter for Playware.
Distinctions and awards (selected):
RoboCup Humanoids Free Style World Champion 2002.
FIRA KheperaSot World Champion 2002.
Winner: Product Innovation of the Year, Asia-Pacific Eldercare Industry Awards 2018.
Winner: Innovation of the Year - Dementia Solution, Asia-Pacific Eldercare Awards,
2019.
Winner: SilverEco Ageing Well International Award, 2019.
Winner: Most Outstanding Healthcare Innovator in the World, The Globals Awards,
2019.

Title: Robotics for Growing Life
Abstract:
We present a novel direction of artificial life robotics in which we use robotics tocontrol the growth of real, natural life. The concept of using robotics to grow life
present itself as a potential sustainable solution for food production, allowing anoptimization of food quality and outcome. The design of these artificial life robotic
system allow for urban farming where food production happens in the close vicinity
to the consumer, avoiding the long transportation of food to the consumer. We
illustrate this concept with our development of the Growbot, which is a tabletop size
robotic green house for growing edible food plant. The GrowBots use sensors suchas humidity, CO2, temperature, water level and camera sensors, and actuators suchas full spectrum LEDs, IR LEDs, UV LEDs, fertilizer and water pumps, air change and air
circulation fan. The software acts as recipes for the plant growth in the robotic
greenhouse adjusting the environmental condition for the growth of the living plants
such as salad, parsley and basil. Changing the recipes, one may experiment andinvestigate easily to search for optimization for volume production, taste, etc. We
illustrate this novel concept and implementation of artificial life robotics with thegrowth of Italian basil, Ocimum basilicum.

Plenary Speaker 2: Professor Hidehiko Yamamoto (Gifu University, Japan)
Title: Road to Cyber Physical Factory (Application Examples of Intelligent Factoryand its Technology)
Hidehiko Yamamoto,Specially Appointed Professor, Gifu University
Education: 1980 year Master's Degree ofMechanical Engineering (Nagoya Institue ofTechnology)
1991 year Docter’s Degree of Engineering (NagoyaInstitue of Technology).
Employment:
1980-1992: Toyota Industrial Coorporation Ltd.
1992-2000: Associate Professor, Wakayama
University, Japan.
2000-2021: Professor, Gifu University, Japan.
2021-present:Specially Appointed Professor, Gifu
University, Japan.
2021: Honarary Professor of Gifu University.
Awards (selected):
・ Manufacturing Systems Academic Achievement Award, The Japan Society ofMechanical Engineers, 2012.
・The Fellow of The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014.
・ Best Paper Award, Autonomous decentralized FMS that adopts priority order
structure based on AGV’s lie, The 2019 International Conference on Artificial Life andRobotics (ICAROB2019),

Title: Road to Cyber Physical Factory (Application Examples of Intelligent Factoryand its Technology)
Abstract:
Since 1980, Computerized machine tools and robots have been developed. I talk aboutthe history of the Intelligent manufacturing systems and their technology including
Artificial Intelligence and GA. For example, Future Factory by using AutonomousSystem, we call Autonomous Decentralized Flexible Manufacturing Systems, ispresented. Virtual Factory and several kinds of simulations for production systems andscheduling problems is presented. IoT production and Cyber Physical Factory which isthe near future manufacturing model are presented.

Plenary Speaker 3: Professor Takao Ito (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Title: Robot Technology, and it’s Development Trend –Developing a New
Networking Robot System-Takao Ito, Professor, Hiroshima University
Education: 1990 year Master's Degree of Economics(Kyushyu University)
2005 year Docter’s Degree of Economics (KyotoUniversty).
2008 year Docter’s Degree of Engineering(University of Miyazaki)
Employment:
1995-1996: Lecturer, Department of Business
Administration, Aso Fukuoka Junior College (1998-,
Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences), Japan.
1996-2004: Associate Profesoor, Department ofBusiness Administration, Ube National College ofTechnology Japan.
2004-2008 & 2009-2014: Full Professor,
Department of Business Administration, Ube
National College of Technology Japan.
2008-2009: Visiting Research Professor, School ofManagment, New Jersey Institute of Technology,USA.
2014-2020: Full Professor, Graduate School ofEngineering, Hiroshima Univeristy, Japan.
2020-Present: Full Professor, Graduate School of
Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima
Univeristy, Japan.
Distinctions and awards (selected):
Winner: Best Paper Award, The Eleventh International Symposium on Artificial Lifeand Robotics, Oita, Japan, 2006.
Winner: Best Paper Award, The twentieth International Conference on Artificial Lifeand Robotics, Oita, Japan, 2015.

Title: Robot Technology, and it’s Development Trend
Abstract:
Robot technology has been changed dramatically with massive development ofinternet environment. The author reviewed a plethora of literature and investigatedadvanced robot technologies. Today, most of typical robot technologies are used insingle-cause-oriented products, such as robot vacuum cleaner and Asimo, a humanoid
robot invented by Honda. These advanced products played important role in ourmodern society. For further development, a networking robot system with advanced
technologies of internet and artificial intelligence is required in order to copy with theuncertainty in the future. Different technology should be combined and linked
together for multiple-goal-oriented approach in the networking robot system. Forevaluating the validity of our new system, a centrality index is introduced in thisresearch.