Peripersonal space - Multisensory integration & the iCub robot
Abstract: The iCub is a humanoid robot designed to support research in embodied AI. At 104 cm tall, the iCub has the size of a five-year-old child. It can crawl on all fours, walk, and sit up to manipulate objects. Its hands have been designed to support sophisticate manipulation skills. The iCub is distributed as Open Source following the GPL licenses (http://www.iCub.org). More than 50 robots have been built so far which are available in laboratories across Europe, US, Korea, Singapore, and Japan. It is one of the few platforms in the world with a sensitive full-body skin to deal with the physical interaction with the environment including possibly people. In this talk, I will speak about embodied intelligence – in the brain and machines alike, visuo-tactile integration and, more specifically, on some past work on iCub’s concept of peripersonal space.
Bio: Giorgio Metta is Scientific Director of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology). An internationally-renowned roboticist and an expert in artificial intelligence, after obtaining a degree in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Robotics from the University of Genoa, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the prestigious AI Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA (USA), where he worked with Rodney Brooks.
Later, he was a researcher at the University of Genoa, he held the position of professor at the University of Plymouth (UK) and, as a senior researcher at IIT, in 2004, he launched and coordinated, together with Giulio Sandini and David Vernon, the European RobotCub project, which gave rise to the humanoid robot iCub. Giorgio coordinated the development of the iCub robot for more than a decade, making it de facto the reference platform for research in the field of humanoid robotics and embodied artificial intelligence at an international level. There are currently around 50 iCub robots worldwide, used in the laboratories of universities and research centres in countries such as Japan, China, Singapore, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA. The work performed by the scientific community on the iCub robot, partly due to the project's open-source approach, enables the advancement of research in the field of Artificial Intelligence and humanoid robotics on a global scale.
Giorgio Metta's research interests have focused on the study of bioinspired systems and humanoid robotics, with specific reference to the design of machines that can learn from experience. In addition, Giorgio Metta is author or co-author of more than 300 scientific publications, and he has worked as Principal Investigator in a dozen international and industrial research projects.
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- Date: 01 Mar 2024
- Time: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
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- Franklin Room, Level 11 Connexis South Tower, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138632
- Singapore , Singapore
- Singapore 138632
- Starts 01 March 2024 03:00 PM
- Ends 01 March 2024 03:30 PM
- All times are (UTC+08:00) Singapore
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