A meeting of great interest, the one scheduled Monday 17 November (21) at Collegio Nuovo, which features the humanoid robot “Pepper”, engaged in the health and social fields, the robotics researcher ofUniversity of Genoa, Lucretia Grassi, in dialogue with Paul of the Beard, director of the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering (University of Pavia), Giovanni Ricevuti, professor of Geriatrics at our University, and Chiara Toffanin, professor of Fundamentals of Automatic Control and Industrial Control at our University.
Lucrezia Grassi, winner last year of the Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, will present the Pepper robot and illustrate the projects conducted at the laboratory RICE (Robots and Intelligent Systems for Citizens and the Environment) of the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), in particular with professors Antonio Sgorbissa and Carmine Recchiuto.
The aim of the evening is to illustrate the potential of humanoid robots, used in the health and social sectors, from hospitals – as in an experiment conducted at the San Martino Hospital in Genoa with assistants robot in the lane - to retirement homes, to schools, where Pepper is also used for student support activitiesi.
Pepper is a “diversity aware” robot, able to communicate with students, patients, and the elderly, adapting to their preferences and different cultural and emotional sensitivities.
The meeting will be held in person (Aula Magna del Collegio Nuovo, via Abbiategrasso 404, Pavia) and remotely. Registration is required by November 16th for in-person attendance; by November 17th at 6:30 PM for those wishing to join remotely.
The initiative is included, subject to confirmation by the individual interested College member of the CCUM, in the recognized training activities and is accredited as part of the IUSS extra-class training activity.
