BIOROBOTICS EXHIBITION - “NEXUS” AT MIL SESTO SAN GIOVANNI ON NOVEMBER 8, 2016: CONTEMPORARY BIOROBOTICS RESEARCH AND HUMAN-ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS
Launched in Spring 2016, and after a successful start in Florence, the “NEXUS exhibition. Human-robot interactions: exploring issues of future technologies”, will be held on November 8 at MIL Sesto San Giovanni (Milan). The event organized by Sant’Anna School - Pisa, Galileo Museum - Florence and University of Siena is entirely dedicated to explore the latest developments and new research results in biorobotics technologies, showing the parallel paths of science and imagination.
The exhibition will be open from November 8 - 7.00 p.m. until November 20, 2016. Last Spring successful event held in Florence in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, reached its goal engaging young people and college students in a training session also giving information about robotic concepts, processes and tools used. In fact, the Sesto San Giovanni exhibition offers free guided tour for reserved school groups, Tuesdays through Fridays, 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m..
Also connected to Nexus exhibition is a workshop scheduled on November 12. Scientists and experts of the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroengineering Center for Neuroprosthetics – EPFL Lausanne, the Sant’Anna School Biorobotics Institute, the Laboratorio Dagad and the Archivio Giovanni Sacchi will discuss the topic “Robotics in healthcare” ranging from the new frontiers of rehabilitation robotics, robot-assisted surgery, and design of neuroprostheses.
The exhibition will offer practical talks and demonstrations on human-robots interactions (just for instance: rehabilitation robots designed to make the compensations of physical capabilities of elderly, injured, disabled or normal people).
As robotics technology and autonomous robots enter human social environments, ethical and policy issues arise. Robotics researchers, designers, and engineers face daily both ethical and legal challenges given the speed with which robotics technology advances. In fact, more significant open questions remain as to when the handoff of control to robots should be legally or ethically required.
