CS Colloquium Lecture: Rachid Alami

Title: A Robot That Aims to Serve Humans and Be Accepted By ThemProf. Rachid AlamiSenior Scientist at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France. Abstract:We are conducting research toward the construction of a cognitive robots able to act in close interaction with humans and to serve as a companion in their daily life.
I will present several results developed in COGNIRON, a collaborative research project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the 'Beyond Robotics' workprogramme.
Cogniron research teams contribute to the study of the perceptual, representational, reasoning and learning capabilities of embodied robots in a human centred perspective.
More particularly, I will focus on issues that involve decisional interaction between a human and a robot that acts and moves in his close vicinity.Bio sketch:Prof. Rachid ALAMI is Senior Scientist at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France. He received an engineer diploma in Computer Science in 1978 from ENSEEIHT, and a Ph.D in Robotics in 1983 from the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). He contributed and took important responsibilities in several national, European and international research and/or collaborative projects (EUREKA, ESPRIT, IST). His main research contributions fall in the fields of robot architectures, task and motion planning, manipulation, multi-robot cooperation and more generally robot decisional autonomy. He has also a substantial experience in robotics system integration and transfer operations.Host: Dr. Adriana Tapus

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Nancy Levien