2004
Asia Broadband Symposium on Digital City Collaboration
Robots as New Media for Supporting Interaction and
Collaboration in
Digital City
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Professor,
Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka
University,
Japan
Many
robotics researchers are exploring new possibilities of intelligent robots in
our everyday life. Humanoid robots, which have various modalities, can
communicate with humans as new information media. In this talk, we argue how to
develop the interactive humanoid robots and how to evaluate them as introducing
several robots developed in ATR and Osaka University. Especially, we focus on a
constructive approach to developing the interactive robots, cognitive studies
using the humanoid robots and android robots for evaluating the interactions,
and long-term field experiments in an elementary school. I hope that attendees
catch a new wave in robotics research and our feature life.
He is a professor of Department of Adaptive Machine
Systems, Osaka University, Japan and a group leader of 2nd laboratory of ATR
Intelligent Robotics and Communications (www.irc.atr.jp). He received D.Eng.
degree from Osaka University, Japan, in 1991. In 1991, he started working as a
research assistant of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Yamanashi University, Japan. Then he moved to Department of Systems
Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, as a research assistant in 1992. From
1991 to 1994, He developed several vision-guided mobile robots and studied on
active and omnidirectonal vision. In 1994, He was an associate professor of
Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, Japan, and started
research of distributed vision using omnidirectional cameras. From 1998 to
1999, He worked in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego, USA, as a visiting scholar. From 1999, he
was a visiting researcher in ATR Media Integration and Communications Research
Laboratories and he stared a project of interactive humanoid robots. He also
established a venture company Vstone Co. Ltd. (www.vstone.co.jp). In 2000, he
moved to Department of Computer and Communication Sciences, Wakayama
University, Japan, as an associate professor and became a professor in 2001.
Then he moved to Osaka University as a professor in 2002. He started working on
social robots, android robots, and perceptual information infrastructure. Contact him at ishiguro@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp. His homepages is http://www.ed.ams.eng. Osaka-u.ac.jp.