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Workshop on Cognitive Robotics and AI - SETN 2024

Dates
2024-09-12 15:00 - 19:00
Location: Department of Informatics | University of Piraeus | 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Str. | 18534, Piraeus
Official website: https://robotics.pme.duth.gr/workshop_cogrob/

About the workshop: 
The field of Cognitive Robotics is experiencing unprecedented growth in our days. Because an intelligent robot is a physically situated intelligent agent, the tools and techniques for designing purposive, intelligent, and adaptive robot capabilities significantly overlap with Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) methodologies and approaches. These range from older symbolic mechanisms for knowledge representation, reasoning, and planning to current techniques in reinforcement learning, transformers, and Large Language Models. This field of combining AI and Robotics is referred to as “Intelligent Robotics,” “Robotics & AI,” or “Cognitive Robotics.” As defined in the 1998 AAAI Winter Workshops, Cognitive Robotics is “concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action within a uniform theoretical and implementation framework”. Cangelosi and Asada, in the recent book Cognitive Robotics, define the field as combining insights and methods from AI and cognitive and biological sciences to robotics.
Message from the organizers
In this spirit, we are organizing a half-day workshop on Cognitive Robotics and AI that will take place during the 13n Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN) in Piraeus, Greece, on the 12th of September 2024. The workshop will feature invited talks from distinguished scholars and a poster session with contributed papers.
Motivation & Goal
The scope of this workshop is to gather researchers from different research areas across several sections. This way, we will range the discussion from previously experienced problems to contemporary solutions while focusing on the future trends that remain an open problem in the community. Talks from highly recognized scholars/researchers in the field and questions and answers during the workshop session will enable the interaction of the audience with the pioneers. Furthermore, we will host a poster session where the young and upcoming participants in the field will be able to interact with esteemed scholars, thereby exchanging ideas and further enhancing their research philosophies.
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Confirmed Speakers  
  • Katia Sycara, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Giorgio Metta, Scientific Director, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
  • Petros Maragos, Professor, National Technical University of Athens & Athena Research Center
  • Gordon Cheng, Professor, Technical University of Munich
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Organizers
  • Yiannis Aloimonos, Professor, University of Maryland
  • Antonis Gasteratos, Professor,  Democritus University of Thrace
  • Antonis Argyros, Professor, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH
  • Katerina Pastra, Senior Researcher, Athena Research Center
  • Konstantinos A. Tsintotas, Postdoctoral researcher,  Democritus University of Thrace
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Acknowledgment

This workshop is financially supported by:
       -  Archimedes & Institute for Robotics (IRO)-EU Horizon Europe "PILLAR-Robots" project, Athena Research Center
       -  Institute of Computer Science (ICS) - Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) 
 
 

Vision

To position Greece as a leading player in AI and Data Science

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Mission

To build an AI Excellence Hub in Greece where the international research community can connect, groundbreaking ideas can thrive, and the next generation of scientists emerges, shaping a brighter future for Greece and the world

 

Welcome to ARCHIMEDES, a vibrant research hub connecting the global AI and Data Science research community fostering groundbreaking research in Greece and beyond. Its dedicated core team, comprising lead researchers, affiliated researchers, Post-Docs, PhDs and interns, is committed to advancing basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and its supporting disciplines, including Algorithms, Statistics, Learning Theory, and Game Theory organized around 8 core research areas. By collaborating with Greek and Foreign Universities and Research Institutes, ARCHIMEDES disseminates its research findings fostering knowledge exchange and providing enriching opportunities for students. Leveraging AI to address real-world challenges, ARCHIMEDES promotes innovation within the Greek ecosystem and extends its societal impact. Established in January 2022, as a research unit of the Athena Research Center with support from the Committee Greece 2021, ARCHIMEDES is funded for its first four years by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

 
 

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