Robotics – new technologies for an ageing society
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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in englischer Sprache
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Ph.D. Sarah HARPER
Professor of Gerontology and Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford
| Sarah's research concerns globalization and global ageing, and the impact of population change, in particular the implications at the global, societal and individual level of the shift in population ages from predominantly young to predominantly older societies. | |
| Particular research interests are the impact of this demographic shift on intergenerational relationships and work. She has undertaken research in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific with particular interest in China, Japan and Malaysia, and is a PI the Global Ageing Study, a survey of 44,000 men and women aged 40 to 80 in 24 countries. She was first post holder of International Chair on Old Age Financial Security at the University of Malaya, advising the government on pension security. |
Prof. Dr. Edgar KÖRNER
Chairman, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach am Main
| Studied Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Cybernetics at Ilmenau Institute of Technology, Germany | |
| 1976-1984 | Assistant Professor and Senior Staff Researcher, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1977 | Dr.-Ing. in the field of Biomedical Cybernetics, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1984 | Habilitation in Biocybernetics, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1984-1987 | Research Fellow, Bioholonics Project of JRDC, Tokyo |
| 1987-1988 | Associate Professor, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1988-1992 | Full Professor in Biocybernetics and Head of Department of Neurocomputing and Cognitive Systems, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1992-1997 | Chief Scientist at Honda's R&D Wako Research Center, Japan |
| 1997-2003 | Executive Vice President and Head of the Future Technology Research Division, Honda R&D Europe |
| 2003-2010 | President of the newly established Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
| since 2007 | Co-director, Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, University Bielefeld |
| since 2010 | Chairman, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
| His research interest covers brain-like intelligence, with a special focus on self-referential control architectures, self-organization of knowledge representation, and autonomous robots. |
Ph.D. Takanori SHIBATA
Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba
| 1991 | M.S. in Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan |
| 1992 | Ph.D. in Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan |
| 1993-1998 | Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST |
| 1995-1998 | Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Lab., Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT |
| 1996 | Visiting Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Lab., University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| since 1998 | Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST |
| 2009-2010 | Deputy Director, Information and Communication Technology Policy, Bureau of Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan |
| His research interests include human-robot interaction, robot therapy, and humanitarian de-mining. He was certified as the inventor of a seal robot named Paro, the World's Most Therapeutic Robot, by Guinness World Records in 2002. |
Dr. Joachim TREUSCH
President Emeritus, Jacobs University Bremen
| 1970 | Professur in Frankfurt |
| 1971 | Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik in Dortmund |
| 1984-1986 | Präsident der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft |
| seit 1987 | Vorstandsmitglied der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich (KFA) |
| 1993-1997 | Vorsitzender der Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren |
| 1995-1996 | Präsident der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte |
| 1990-2006 | Vorsitzender des Vorstands der Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH |
| 1999-2003 | Vorsitzender des Deutschen Verbandes Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine |
| 2000-2006 | Vorsitzender des Lenkungsausschusses "Wissenschaft im Dialog" |
| 2006-2012 | Präsident der Jacobs University Bremen |
