The Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
cordially invites you to a one day seminar on:
AI and Robotics: Towards Autonomous Service Robotics
Sponsors:
Israel Ministry of Science and Technology
The Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University
The Frankel Center for Computer Science Research
ABC — the initiative for Agricultural, Biological, and Cognitive Robotic at BGU
Recent advances in AI and related fields are bringing us closer to the creation of service robots that can assist in household chores. Such assistance is much needed given the large increase in the aging population in the western world and the difficulty of providing quality care for all.
This seminar will highlight some of work carried out in Israel on the use of AI-based methods for autonomous service robots. The seminar will focus on three topics: Greater Autonomy for Robotics, NLP for robotics and grounded language understanding, and Human-Robot interaction.
We will also have invited speakers from industry and a representative from the ministry of science and technology.
Confirmed Speakers:
AI and Robotics: Ronen Brafman (BGU), Erez Karpas (Technion), Gal Kaminka (BIU)
Natural Language Processing: Jonathan Berant (TAU), Michael Elhadad (BGU)
Human Robot Interaction: Avi Parush (Technion), Oren Zuckerman (IDC)
Industry: Intuition Robotics, TBA
Some practical Information:
• Registration is free, but required. The registration site will open soon
• Lunch will be provided to registered participants
• The auditorium is a short walk from Beer-Sheva North train station and the train schedule will be taken into consideration.
