I joined the ICRA 2024 workshop, “The robotics, psychology and neuroscience of body augmentation,” and gave a talk.
Date: 13 May 2024
16:20-16:40: Shunichi Kasahara (Sony CSL)
Title: Cybernetic humanity: exploring the new humanity emerging from the integration of humans and computers
Robotic body augmentation looks to use the sensing and actuation capabilities of robots to extend the human body’s abilities. This novel form of robot-human interaction with supernumerary robot limbs (SRLs), avatars and artificial feedback devices blurs the physical boundaries between human and machine such that interdisciplinary understanding is required. This full-day workshop will provide a venue to discuss the challenges across the disciplines of robotics, psychology and neuroscience, as they associate to robotic body augmentation. It will build on the successful ICRA2023 workshop on “The robotics and neuroscience of supernumerary limbs”, extending the discussions to include the fields of psychology and virtual reality and explain how the integration of these fields with robotics and neuroscience is contributing to the creation of a new generation of robots and machines. Through a series of presentations, 10 leading experts in robotics, neuroscience, and psychology will present the state of the art research into robotic body augmentation. This will be complemented by a poster session as well as a moderated Q&A panel that will enable the audience to join the discussion on the challenges and directions for future research and industrial collaboration. The participants will be able to attend an augmentation fashion show and take part in a special competition session where they can augment their bodies with other participants in a virtual game.
ICRA 2024 workshop : The robotics, psychology and neuroscience of body augmentation
Cybernetic Humanity 