This TransAIR workshop will bring together leading experts to address the challenges of developing cognitive architectures for robot agents. The primary goal of the workshop is to open a discussion on possible interdisciplinary collaborations and the identification of prospects for collaborative development, ideally in an open-source open-systems framework.
The agenda will contain discussions on what can be done in practice today, the innovations we can expect in the short term, and the advances that require longer-term research. We will also address the possibility of community-wide collaboration for consolidating operational cognitive architectures through joint development and common frameworks or interfaces. Invited experts will illustrate current capabilities by making reference to practical demonstrations of robot applications using their own cognitive architecture or their cognitive architecture of choice.
The workshop addresses a wide range of topics in cognitive architectures for robot agents, particularly addressing:
Date: 22nd – 28th March 2021
Time: Due to the virtual workshop format and the attendance of international audiences, we will schedule live sessions from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) / 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Central European Time (CET).
Due to the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the well-being of participants, the workshop will be held virtually. We will use a virtual venue tool to offer a workshop experience which targets a composition of pre-recorded video presentations of invited talks accompanied with live Q&A session, live tutorials or interviews and live panel discussions.
We are providing a complete virtual experience where you can customize your virtual avatar, explore the workshop by walking around our venue, listen to or join the invited talks, live Q&A and panel discussions or have group conversations while enjoying the virtual coffee break or private conversations.
Leading experts are brought together to present their research and perspectives on the topic of the workshop.
We have an excellent line-up (in alphabetical order by surname):
Michael Beetz, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Giulio Sandini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, University of Genoa
David Vernon, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Christian A. Mueller, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Alexander Wich, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Jörn Syrbe, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Maria Hedblom, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen: Moderation
Gayane Kazhoyan, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen: Moderation
Ana Tanevska, CONTACT Research Line, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia: Moderation
Lisa Frerichs, University of Bremen: Communication
Kelvin Okenye, University of Bremen: Webdesign, Social Media
Lisa-Marie Wei-Qing Liu, University of Bremen: Graphic Design
EASE is an interdisciplinary research center at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (University of Bremen) that investigates everyday activity science and engineering. Its core purpose is to advance our understanding of how human-scale manipulation tasks can be mastered by robotic agents. To achieve this, EASE establishes the research area “Everyday Activity Science and Engineering” and creates a research community that conducts open research, open training, open data, and knowledge sharing.
The Cognitive Architecture Scientific Initiative – iCog – an open source initiative started at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) with the goal of advancing our knowledge of human cognition by designing, building, and sharing a common cognitive architecture for an embodied artificial system such as iCub.
