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CATHI presented at HRI 2019
HRI 2019 is the 14th annual conference for basic and applied human-robot interaction research.
The HRI conference is a highly selective annual international conference that aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in and broad participation from communities that include but not limited to robotics, human-computer interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, engineering, and social and behavioral sciences.
Shonan meeting on “Learning to communicate: Challenges in language learning by AI, robots and humans”
This week I will participate my first Shonan meeting with many wonderful colleagues from all around the world. Hope to learn a lot! 🙂
Robotics in Paediatrics and Child Health Showcase
Robotics in Social Care –
POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) has published an interesting note that reviews evidence on the impact of robotics on the costs and quality of social care and its workforce, and explores the main ethical, social and regulatory challenges to its use in social care. Full text here.
“According to the National Audit Office, between 2012 and 2020, the UK Government has, or plans to, invest over £300 million in RAS research. The European Commission is also investing €700 million between 2014-2020 in partnership with the robotics industry and academia, which is expected to yield a total investment of €2.8 billion.
It has been suggested that robotics can provide social and cognitive assistance to care receivers, as well as physical assistance to both caregivers and care receivers. Evidence on the effectiveness of this technology shows some positive findings, although the newness of the technology means that current research is limited. Questions have also been raised over the ethical, social and regulatory challenges to its use.”
CATHI has received the IBM SUR Award!
CATHI has won the international Shared University Research Award by IBM Corporation (PI Alessandro Di Nuovo – IBM responsible John McNamara).
The award included a cash donation of $40,000 to Sheffield Hallam University and free access to IBM Watson and staff training.
About the program
The IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Awards is a world wide monetary, cloud and equipment award program to promote research and innovation in strategic areas of mutual interest and to build skills in ‘New Collar’ jobs. Nominations for these awards must be initiated by someone within IBM.
The SUR Awards program strives to connect the research and researchers at universities with personnel in IBM: in organizations such as IBM Research, IBM Life Sciences, IBM Global Services and our development and product labs. This program is not aimed at supporting a single individual or research project. Rather, the intent is to support and have an impact in an area of significant interest to the university and IBM.
The SUR Awards program is designed to:
- Promote collaborative research projects that bring value to IBM, the technology community, and our world.
- Increase access to IBM technologies for research and in curriculum.
- Provide opportunities within IBM for undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students.
More at: https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/shared_univ_research.shtml
BBC Radio Interview on Robots and Video Games for Old People
Use this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswgwk My interview starts from minute 14.
Robots and Loneliness
Article for the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/robot-carers-could-help-lonely-seniors-theyre-cheering-humans-up-already-106181
Republished by the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/robot-carer-elderly-people-loneliness-ageing-population-care-homes-a8659801.html
NUMBERS Presented @ NVIDIA GTC Europe 2018
CATHI won an Award
CATHI won the Silver Best Application Paper award presented by the IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science) for the article “IBM Cloud Services Enhance Automatic Cognitive Assessment via Human-Robot Interaction” – 6th International workshop on New Trends in medical and Service Robotics – MESROB 2018.
