The workshop is in the San Marino room. For parking information refer to the venue & location tab on the left.

Each presentation should be 15 minutes long. Five additional minutes are allocated per talk for questions and transition to the next talk.
To save time lunch will be served in the workshop room.

Dinner is at Cafe Santorini in old town Pasadena.
64 West Union St, Pasadena, CA 91103
Parking information is availalbe here. You can also walk from the Hilton. Google map

• TBD – Robert Ambrose
  NASA Johnson Space Center
  
  
• Variable Impedance Actuation: Agonistic-Antagonistic Design Revisited – Antonio Bicchi
  Antonio Bicchi is Professor of Systems Theory and Robotics in the Department of Electrical Systems and Automation (DSEA) of the University of Pisa, and Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center ``E. Piaggio'' of the University of Pisa, where he has been leading the Automation and Robotics group since 1990. His main research interests are in Dynamics, kinematics and control of complex mechanical systems, including robots, autonomous vehicles, and automotive systems; Haptics and dexterous manipulation; and Theory and control of nonlinear systems, in particular hybrid (logic/dynamic, symbol/signal) systems. He has published more than 200 papers on international journals, books, and refereed conferences. Antonio Bicchi is a Fellow of IEEE , and has been appointed to chair the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  
  
• Socially Assistive Robotics for Extending the Physical, Cognitive, and Social Healthspan – Maja Mataric
  Maja Mataric' is a professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, founding director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (cres.usc.edu), co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab (robotics.usc.edu), Senior Associate Dean for Research in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the immediate past president of the USC faculty and the Academic Senate. She received her PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from MIT in 1994, MS in Computer Science from MIT in 1990, and BS in Computer Science from the University of Kansas in 1987. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and recipient of the Okawa Foundation Award, NSF Career Award, the MIT TR100 Innovation Award, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Service Award and Junior Research Award, the Provost's Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship, and is featured in the documentary movie "Me & Isaac Newton." She is an associate editor of three major journals and has published extensively in various areas of robotics. Her Interaction Lab's research into socially assistive robotics is aimed at endowing robots with the ability to help people through individual assistance (for convalescence, rehabilitation, training, and education) and team cooperation (for habitat monitoring and emergency response).
  
  
• Human-Friendly Robotics – Oussama Khatib