TY - JOUR
T1 - The Italy-Japan Workshop
T2 - A History of Bilateral Cooperation, Pushing the Boundaries of Robotics
AU - Trovato, Gabriele
AU - Ricotti, Leonardo
AU - Laschi, Cecilia
AU - Zecca, Massimiliano
AU - Cosentino, Sarah
AU - Bartolomeo, Luca
AU - Hashimoto, Shuji
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
AU - Dario, Paolo
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The problem of elevating education to include robotics was tackled during the same years in both countries. Waseda University instituted the Global Robot Academia within the Global Center of Excellence program for graduate schools, which was launched by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology to establish international education and research centers. Waseda University and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, together with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, made a shared effort organizing the Waseda-SSSA-KIST-Tsukuba-Nagoya (WSK-TNg) International Summer School on Robotics cycle, which lasted five years and grew to involve many other institutions.
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PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - This article presents the experience of a longlasting collaboration in robotics between the countries of Japan and Italy. The diversity of the approaches to robotics research and technology in the two countries and, at the same time, the similarity of some social drives for robotics progress have created a stimulus for generating new thinking about robotics. Not only has this occurred at the main participant institutions of Waseda University in Tokyo and Scuola Superiore Sant?Anna in Pisa, Italy, but it has also happened worldwide. The authors present a summary of the Italy-Japan workshops, exploring topics on 1) humanoid robotics, 2) the application of robotics for exploration and rescue, 3) biorobotics, 4) the use of robots in education, 5) the ethics of robotics, 6) robotics for sports, and 7) robotics for the arts. The experience of the workshops represents an example of an open-minded approach to robotics that is grounded on social challenges, explored through multidisciplinary discussion. Such interdisciplinary research efforts deserve to be shared with the international robotics community. Indeed, this approach could be used as a base model to foster further international collaborations among countries as well.
AB - This article presents the experience of a longlasting collaboration in robotics between the countries of Japan and Italy. The diversity of the approaches to robotics research and technology in the two countries and, at the same time, the similarity of some social drives for robotics progress have created a stimulus for generating new thinking about robotics. Not only has this occurred at the main participant institutions of Waseda University in Tokyo and Scuola Superiore Sant?Anna in Pisa, Italy, but it has also happened worldwide. The authors present a summary of the Italy-Japan workshops, exploring topics on 1) humanoid robotics, 2) the application of robotics for exploration and rescue, 3) biorobotics, 4) the use of robots in education, 5) the ethics of robotics, 6) robotics for sports, and 7) robotics for the arts. The experience of the workshops represents an example of an open-minded approach to robotics that is grounded on social challenges, explored through multidisciplinary discussion. Such interdisciplinary research efforts deserve to be shared with the international robotics community. Indeed, this approach could be used as a base model to foster further international collaborations among countries as well.
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U2 - 10.1109/MRA.2021.3068559
DO - 10.1109/MRA.2021.3068559
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105117511
SN - 1070-9932
VL - 28
SP - 150
EP - 162
JO - IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
JF - IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
IS - 3
M1 - 9416722
ER -