Houston, Texas March 10/11, 2005

Oliver Brock

Sense of Urgency

• Japan: $30 billion over 5 years

• Korea: major national priority

• Europe: several large research initiatives

• Industry: Honda, Sony, Toshiba, …

• In the US:– arguably leadership in several areas– lack of integrated research initiatives

Questions we would like to answer

• How should integrated research efforts be structured?

• What are critical technology milestones?

• What are important applications?

• How should funding agents get involved?

• How to get industry involved?

• Safety, Ethics, Social Implications

Work Turing Test

A robot passes the Work Turing Test if it can carry out any set of instructions by autonomously performing physical work such that the resulting state of the world is indistinguishable from the one which would result from a cooperative, capable, non-expert human carrying out the same instructions.

Areas

• Platforms and Intl. Initiatives (Rob Ambrose)

• Grasping and Manipulation (Rod Grupen) • Control and Representation (Vijay Kumar) • Perception (Greg Hager)

• Embodiment (Ken Salisbury)

• Teaching, Learning, Developmental Programming (Stefan Schaal)

• Reasoning

Program for Today8:30 – 9:15 Platforms and International Initiatives

9:15 – 10:00 Grasping and Manipulation

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:15 Control and Representation

11:15 – 12:00 Perception

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:45 Embodiment

13:45 – 14:30 Teaching and Learning

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 15:30 Goals Discussion

15:30 – 17:30 Break-Out Groups

18:00 Departure for Dinner

Program for Tomorrow

8:00 – 10:00 Plenary Session

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Break-Out Groups

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:15 Plenary Session

14:15 – 14:30 Closing Remarks

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break

15:00 – 17:30 NASA Tour

Break-Out Sessions

1. Identify Scribe

2. In the context of integration with other components, identify solutions, recommendations, etc. (PostIt Pads)

3. Make 2–3 slides for plenary session

4. Email notes of break-out session toamm-workshop@cs.umass.edu