Organized by
Institute for Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology

Sponsors:
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP)
JSPS Kakenhi (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research), No. 21520004

Program and Speakers:
November 11, 2010
‘From Fiction to Science, A German-Japanese Era-Project’
Prof. Dr. Dr. Walter Ch. Zimmerli [President of TU Cottbus]

‘Roboethics: Future of Robotics Research in Japan’
Prof. Dr. Kohji Ishihara [Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan]

‘Robotic Research in Germany: Potential and Perspectives’
Prof. Dr. Thomas Christaller [Fraunhofer Institute for intelligent Analyse and Information Systems (IAIS)]

‘Robotics in Japanese Popular Culture’
Maika Nakao [Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan]

‘Technical Opportunities and Cultural Embedding’ (Panel Discussion)

November 12, 2010
‘Robotic Appearances and Forms of Life’
Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh [Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, NL]

‘Culture of Robotics, An Eurasian Perspective’
Dipl. Inf. Arun Tripathi [NISTADS (New Dehli, India), TU Dresden]

‘Who is taking over? A Technology Assessment of Autonomous Robots’
Prof. Dr. Michael Decker [Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)]

‘Justifying the Trust into Robots. A Challenge between Generations to accept new Technologies’
Michael Funk [Research Assistant of Philosophy of Technology, TU Dresden]

‘Humanoid Robot Research in Japan: Some Issues on Human Robotic Science and Social Acceptability’
Dr. Jorge Solis [Assistant Professor of Robotics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan]

Review of the workshop
Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernhard Irrgang [Professor of Philosophy of Technology, TU Dresden]

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Website:
http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/philosophische_fakultaet/iph/tph/robotik_tagung_2010