Informatisches Kolloquium Wintersemester 2009/2010

Montag, 2. November 2009
um 17 Uhr c.t.
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal
Gebäude B

Manual Intelligence - Shaking Hands between AI and Robotics

Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter
Excellence Cluster "Cognitive Interaction Technology" (CITEC) and
Institute of "Cognition and Robotics" (CoR-Lab)
Universität Bielefeld

Robotics and entirely disembodied AI are often seen as opposite extremes to approach the challenge of understanding and building intelligent systems. We argue that grasping and manual actions can offer a rich and interdisciplinary "middle ground", thoroughly rooted in physical interaction on the one side, and yet connected to many aspects of "high level" intelligence, such as tool use, language and even emotion. We discuss some issues and challenges in this upcoming field of "Manual Intelligence", report on some examples from our own research on controlling grasping movements of anthropomorphic robot hands, and discuss how this and similar research fits into the "larger picture" of understanding cognition.

Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Christopher Habel
E-Mail:
Telefon 2417