NSF-US/Europe Workshop on Personal Robotics

该奖项资助将于1998年5月14日和15日在法国图卢兹举行的NSF-美国/欧洲个人机器人研究规划讲习班。 该研讨会将汇集来自美国和欧洲的领先研究人员，研究机器人研究的新融合中心，以“人类在回路中”问题为中心。 会议将确定需要进行哪些研究来改善人和计算机与真实的物理世界的连接。 这为机器人技术作为一种“个人”技术的出现带来了新的挑战和机遇。 个人机器人适用于可以在专业，家庭，人类辅助和面向公众的使用中直接为人们服务的机器人，包括新的和新兴的概念，如触觉界面，远程呈现，可穿戴和界面机器人，丰富和支持人们与世界的联系。 研讨会的结果和结论将于下周在比利时鲁汶举行的IEEE机器人与自动化国际会议上的一次小组会议上发表，报告将随后发布在万维网上。

This award funds an NSF-US/Europe Research Planning Workshop on Personal Robotics, to be held in Toulouse, France, May 14 and 15, 1998. The workshop will bring together leading researchers from the US and Europe to examine a new center of convergence in robotics research, centered on "human in the loop" problems. The meeting will undertake to identify the research needed to improve the connectivity of people and computers to the real physical world. This presents new challenges and opportunities for the emergence of robotics as a "personal" technology. Personal robotics applies to robots that can serve people directly in professional, domestic, human-assistance, and public-oriented use, and includes new and emerging concepts such as haptic interfaces, telepresence, wearable and interface robotics that enrich and support the connection of people to the world. The results and conclusions of the workshop will be presented at a panel session the following week at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Leuven, Belgium, and a report will later be posted on the World Wide Web.