ABC Robotics – Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive Robotics Monthly Seminars
Last Monday of the month
Alon Building 37 room 202 | 10:10-11:00
Spring semester 2022
March 28
Time: 10:10-11:00
Will be given on Zoom
Thinking inside of the box – Exploring Research methods in HRI during a Global Pandemic
Shanee Honig, PhD students in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Abstract
Between Fear and Trust: Factors Influencing Older Adults' Evaluation of Socially Assistive Robots
Oded Zafrani, PhD students in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Abstract
April 25
Seminar time: 10:10 - 11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, Room 202
Adversarial Robotics: From Teamwork to Swarms
Prof. Noa Agmon, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Abstract
May 9
Speaker: Prof. Hod Lipson, Engineering & Data Science Columbia University, New York
Automating discovery: From cognitive robotics to particle physics
Seminar time: 10:10 - 11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, Room 202
Abstract
May 11-12
Creative Collaborations 2: Art, Design and HRI Conference
The conference is a collaborative project between the Department of Arts (Nea Ehrlich), and the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management (Tal Oron-Gilad, Yael Edan) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the graduate program in Industrial Design at Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
May 11: 15:00-18:30, W. A. Minkoff Senate Hall Building #71
May 12: 9:30-17:30, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev Building #41
Registration is mandatory » Full Program
May 16
Speaker: Prof. Susanne Boll, Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Humans, vehicles, and AI - tensions and opportunities
Seminar time: 10:10 - 11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, Room 202
Abstract
May 30
Speaker: Prof. Lars Oddson, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
A Wearable Sensory Prosthesis Improves Balance and Gait Function in Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy
Seminar time: 16:10 - 17:00
Location: Zoom
Abstract
June 27
Speaker 1: Michal Rottem-Hovev, Yazamut 360, BGU
‘THE LAB’ Experience
Speaker 2: Shimon Regev, Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering , BGU
Optimal Solutions with Multi-objective Considerations in a Non-cooperative Multi-agent Environment
Seminar time: 10:10-11:00
Location: Alon Building 37, room 202
Abstracts
Fall semester 2021/22
February 28, 2022
on zoom
The
recording of the
seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only
Social Robots in Education: Promoting 21st Century Skills
Dr. Goren Gordon, head of the Curiosity Lab in Tel-Aviv University
Abstract
January 31, 2022
on zoom
The
recording of the seminar will be available upon request to ABC researchers and students only
Hyper Redundant articulated robot for NDT of closed complex structures
Shmulik Edelman, PhD student, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers
Tair Sela, MSc. student, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Abstract
December 27, 2021
Upcoming EU Calls
Guest Speaker: David Spivak, Coordinator for Research Funding Opportunities at the Research & Development Authority, BGU
📢 Please note one-time change in location:
Nano Building 51, room 015
Time: 10:10-11:00
Seminar is intended for researchers only
November 29, 2021
Development of novel robotic platforms for mechanical stress induction, and their effects on plant morphology, elements, and metabolism
Speaker: Dr. Polina Kurtser, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Mobile Robots and Olfocation (MRO) Lab
at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, Sweden
Abstract
October 25 , 2021
ABC Robotics Scholars Abstract
The roads to walking stability
Yogev Koren, PhD student - Department of Physical Therapy
Judging a socially assistive robot (SAR) by its cover:
The effect of SARs’ visual qualities on users’ perceptions and attitude
Ela Liberman Pincu, PhD student - Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
