Call for Contributions: 2009 Mobile Manipulation Challenge

In conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a robotics exhibition is being held, called the Mobile Manipulation Challenge, from July 13-16 in 2009 in Pasadena, CA.
They need contributions, and are looking for demonstrations of physically embodied robots performing mobile manipulation tasks. Areas of interest include: Point-and-fetching, assembling structures, and searching for [...]

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Symposium: New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction

A fascinating symposium will be held April 8-9 in 2009 about human-robot interaction (HRI) in Edinburgh, Scotland:
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a growing research field with many application areas that could have a big impact not only economically, but also on the way we live and the kind of relationships we may develop with machines. Due [...]

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Performing Medicine

Without question, hospital environments need to be kept as biologically sterile as possible to prevent the spread of disease and infection among patients and medical practitioners. But does that mean hospitals need to be kept culturally sterile too?
That’s a question being asked by folks in Performing Medicine, a movement and organization dedicated to treating [...]

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Call for Papers: ECAP – European Computing and Philosophy Conference

In years past, the ECAP has been a welcome and informative forum for embodied computation, AI and embodied cognitive science papers. This year’s conference will he held near Barcelona, Spain, from July 2nd to July 4th in 2009.
Abstracts of around 400 words will be accepted until February 23rd, and the best presented papers will be [...]

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