#ROBOTOKAUST21
March 31 to April 1, 2021
CEMSE
Wednesday, March 31, from 12:00 – 11:45 p.m. (GMT+3)
Thursday, April 1, from 11:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. (GMT+3)
The KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy will bring together leading international and in-Kingdom robotics experts as well as government and industry representatives to discuss robotics and its applications.
Visit the conference website to view the complete program and agenda.
Conference topics include
- Research on foundational robotics topics
- Planning and learning
- Locomotion
- Assured autonomy
- Human-robot interaction
- Swarm robotics, and the application areas of modern robotics, such as urban mobility, agriculture, marine, wearable robotics.
Robots: applications, challenges and opportunities
For several decades, robotic systems have been widely adopted in manufacturing, particularly in the execution of tasks not suited to humans because of their repetitive, unpleasant, or hazardous nature.
Typically, manufacturing robotic applications are controlled, structured, and isolated from humans, allowing for efficient and highly reliable automation.
Another long-standing area of robotic applications is unmanned vehicles (rovers, drones, etc.) for civilian or military use in hostile and dangerous environments, like space and the deep sea. Although these applications involve unstructured environments, unmanned vehicles are typically remotely operated by humans and require limited to no autonomy.
Enabled by advances in computation, sensing, materials, energy efficiency, and communication, robots are now being deployed in unstructured and dynamic environments, with close proximity to humans and with higher levels of autonomy.
As noted by the NSF National Robotics Initiative 2.0 call [NSF2019], we are entering an era of “ubiquity, which in this context means seamless integration of co-robots to assist humans in every aspect of life.”
Make sure to join us from Wednesday, March 31 to Thursday, April 1, 2021, as we explore the many significant, exciting challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the field of robotics.
This event is brought to you by Professor Eric Feron and the RISC Research Team in collaboration with Professor Xiangliang Zhang and Professor Bernard Ghanem.
Short story competition
The Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control (RISC) lab at KAUST is pleased to announce a short story competition inspired by our favorite mechanical friends!
The concept is simple: write an original short story, no more than 200 words, based on robotics — any topic is allowed!
Here are some examples to get your imaginations racing:
- Robots and humans
- Robots and animals
- Robots and space exploration
- Robots and healthcare
- Or anything you like!
All competition entries will be judged by a team of experts from the RISC Lab. The competition winner will receive a personalized KAUST MOVA Globe. Not only that, the collection of stories will be published during the KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy.
Send your stories (up to three per participants) to Renzo.Caballerorosas@kaust.edu.sa
Deadline: April 1, 2021 by 4:00 p.m.
The winners will be announced on April 8, 2021
