Date and time:
August 27 at 7:00am-8:30am (PDT) 10:00am (EDT) 4:00PM (CEST) 11:00pm (JST)
Live Stream: Zoom Webinar (https://zoom.us/j/96576651841)
Live questions and discussion: Slido (https://app.sli.do/event/lrbzbq1n)

Speaker: Danica Kragic
Professor, School of Computer Science and Communication
Director, Centre for Autonomous Systems
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Moderator: Bruno Siciliano
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Director, ICAROS Centre
University of Naples Federico II

Video on Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oK411N7jd/
Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GQTVev5KCEI

Title: Perceiving, Acting and Collaborating

Abstract:
In this talk, 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.

 


Danica Kragic (Speaker Bio)

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. She chaired the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Computer and Robot Vision, and served as an IEEE RAS AdCom member. Her research is in robotics, computer vision and machine learning. She is a recipient of ERC Starting and Advanced Grants. Her research is supported by the EU, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and Swedish Research Council.