Final Program

First International Symposium on
ROBOETHICS
The ethics, social, humanitarian and ecological aspects of Robotics

30^th - 31^st January, 2004
Villa Nobel, Sanremo, Italy

1^st Day, Friday 30^th January, 2004

• Gianmarco VERUGGIO
  School of Robotics
• Massimo DONZELLA
  Province of Imperia
• Francesco LAVEGLIA
  City of Sanremo
• Francesco TARRICONE
  Prefecture - U.T.G. of Imperia
• Piero GILARDINO
  Liguria Region
• Alessandro MUSUMECI
  Director General, Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research
• Francesco BELTRAME
  Representative of the Minister of Education, University and Research

• Jean-Pierre STROOT
  Geneva Pugwash Office & President of the Board of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute(GIPRI), Geneva, Switzerland
  The Russell-Einstein Manifesto and the partecipation of Science and Scientists in Society



• Jovan PATRNOGIC
  President, International Institute of Humanitarian Law
  Aspects of International Humanitarian Law



• José M. GALVÁN
  School of Theology, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy
  The Birth of Technoethics

Coffee Break

• Philippe COIFFET
  Member of the National Academy of Technologies of France
  Director of Research at CNRS, Laboratoire de Robotique de Versailles, France
  Machines and Robots: a Questionable Invasion in Regard to Humankind Development



• Henrik I. CHRISTENSEN
  Coordinator, EURON-European Robotics Research Network
  Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
  Autonomous Systems?



• Daniela CERQUI
  Institut d'Anthropologie et de Sociologie, Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
  A Human-Robot Symbiosis: the Perfect Interface?

Lunch

• Atsuo TAKANISHI
  Department of Mechanical Engineering & Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University, Tokio, Japan
  Humanoid Robotics and Japanese History, Religion and Society



• Raja CHATILA
  LAAS-CNRS, Groupe Robotique et Intelligence Artificielle, France
  Towards Cognitive Robot Companions



• Brian DUFFY
  MIT-Media Lab Europe, Dublin, Ireland
  Social Robots: Balancing Function & Form

Coffee Break

• Dario FLOREANO
  Autonomous System Lab, Ecole Polytecnique Federale di Lausanne, Switzerland
  Evolutionary Robotics



• Bruce STERLING
  Science Fiction Author, Austin, Texas, USA
  Robots: Myth and Reality



• Gianmarco VERUGGIO
  Head, CNR-Robotlab, Genova, Italy
  A Proposal for a Roboethics

Gala Dinner at the Sanremo Casino Luxury Restaurant

2^nd Day, Saturday 31^st January, 2004

• Paolo DARIO
  Director, ARTS-Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
  Bio Robotics



• Thomas CHRISTALLER
  Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS), Sankt Augustin, Germany
  Edutainment: Robotics for the Next Generation



• Hirochika INOUE
  Professor, Department of Mechano-Informatics, School of Information Science and Technology The University of Tokyo, Japan
  Humanoids for Elderly People Support

Coffee Break

• Kazuo TANIE
  Chairman, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
  Director, Intelligent Systems Institute/AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
  What is the Specific Ethical Problem in Robotics?



• Ronald ARKIN
  Regents' Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta, USA
  Bombs, Bonding, and Bondage: Human-Robot Interaction and Related Ethical Issues



• Roberto CORDESCHI & Guglielmo TAMBURRINI
  *Dept. of Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy
  **Dept. of Philosophy, University of Pisa, Italy
  Warfare Applications of Robotics and AI: Historical Debates and Epistemologically Motivated Concerns

Lunch

• Vincent RIGAUD
  Director, Underwater System Dept., IFREMER, Toulon, France
  Marine Robotics exploitation and social demand for environmental survey



• Tamaki URA
  Director, Professor, Underwater Technology Research Center, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  Underwater Robots Love Diving in Hostile Sea



• Massimiliano FUKSAS
  Architect, Rome, Italy
  More Ethics, More Ethics!

Coffee Break

• Gianmarco VERUGGIO

Co-chairs:

• Henrik I. CHRISTENSEN
• Philippe COIFFET
• Paolo DARIO
• José M. GALVÁN
• Hirochika INOUE
• Fiorella OPERTO
• Kazuo TANIE

Draft 29^th Jan '04