PROGRAMME

12:00     Welcome and Introduction
Antonio Bicchi, Università di Pisa

12.10     Mechanical-Impedance and Brain-Dynamics Matching between Human and Robot
Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Japan

12:30     Interacting brains: involuntary sensorimotor mechanism of physical interaction between humans 
Etienne Burdet, Imperial College London, UK

12:50     Belief-Space Manipulation
Roderic Grupen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

13:10     Lunch Break

14:30     Biologically Inspired Periodic Motion Control for Efficient Manipulation and Locomotion
Alin Albu-Schaeffer, Robotics and Mechatronics Center, DLR, Munich, Germany

14:50     Grasping, Regrasping, and Not Grasping
Matthew Mason, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, POA, USA

15:10     Sensorimotor learning and transfer of dexterous manipulation
Marco Santello, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

15:30     Coffee Break

16:00     How the mechanics of the fingertip impact the tactile and gripping function of the hand
Vincent Hayward, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris, France

16:20     Neuroscience for robotics – what do we need to know?
Henrik Jorntell, Lund University, Sweden             

16:40     Challenges and Methods for Robust Anthropomorphic Grasp Planning
Kostas Kyryakopoulos, National Technical University Athens, Greece

17:00     Haptic search for salient features
Astrid Kappers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

17:20     Coffee Break

17:40     Towards new paradigms of human-robot integration
Domenico Prattichizzo, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy

18:00     Illusions in Multisensory Integration: What can we learn from them?
Marc Ernst, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany

18:20     Robots for humans
Sami Haddadin, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany

18:40     Closing Remarks
Darwin Caldwell, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia