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<td>IFRR Global Robotics Colloquium on Perceiving, Acting
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<td>Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:39:49 -0700</td>
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<td>Oussama Khatib <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ok@cs.stanford.edu"><ok@cs.stanford.edu></a></td>
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<td>Oussama Khatib <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:khatib@cs.stanford.edu"><khatib@cs.stanford.edu></a></td>
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are pleased to invite you to a new presentation of the
IFRR Robotics Global Colloquia:</span><span
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style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN">A
Colloquium on Perceiving, Acting and Collaborating <span></span></span></b></p>
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times:<span></span></span></strong></p>
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August 27 at 7:00am-8:30am (PDT) 10:00am (EDT) 4:00PM (CEST)
11:00pm
(JST)<span></span></span></p>
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Stream:</span></strong><span
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href="https://zoom.us/j/96576651841" target="_blank"
style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Zoom
Webinar (https://zoom.us/j/96576651841)</span></a><span
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<strong><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Live
questions and
discussion:</span></strong> </span><a
href="https://app.sli.do/event/lrbzbq1n" target="_blank"
style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Slido
(https://app.sli.do/event/lrbzbq1n)</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN">Speaker:
</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN">Danica
Kragic<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN">Danica
Kragic is a Professor at the School of Computer
Science and Communication at the Royal Institute of
Technology, KTH and the
Director of the Centre for Autonomous Systems. Danica
received the 2007 IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award.
She is a member of
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy
of Engineering
Sciences and Young Academy of Sweden. She holds an Honorary
Doctorate from the
Lappeenranta University of Technology and she is an IEEE
Fellow. Her research
is in robotics, computer vision and machine learning. Danica
Kragic will
discuss the development and open problems in robot
perception and interaction.
The integral ability of any robot is to act in the
environment, interact and
collaborate with people and other robots. Interaction
between the agents builds
on the ability to engage in mutual prediction and signaling.
The focus will be
on physical interaction with objects and modelling of
multisensory data.<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Moderator:</span></strong><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Bruno
Siciliano, University of
Naples Federico II</span><span
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style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN">IFRR
Robotics Global Colloquia Series: The Colloquia, a
new series of online events organized by IFRR, has been
conceived to provide a
platform for open discussion and interaction on diverse
themes in robotics -
from research and applications to the field’s social impact
and its ethical
issues. The series alternates between panels and speakers on
specific topics.
Past colloquia are accessible through the IFRR YouTube
channel.</span><span
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN">We
hope you join us for this special event.</span><span
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN">Oussama
Khatib,</span><span
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President<span></span></span></p>
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href="http://ifrr.org/field-robotics"
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style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ifrr.org</span></a><span
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