HIAS Webinar – Robotics in the AI era: Opportunities for Innovation in Greece
HIAS announces its first webinar, in partnership with the National technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Robotics in the AI era: Opportunities for Innovation in Greece
(Η Ρομποτική στην Εποχή της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης: Ευκαιρίες για Καινοτομία στην Ελλάδα)
Date: Friday, February 25th 2022, 17:00 Athens time
Webinar Link: https://grnet.zoom.us/j/68636410762
Live Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-MHC_3N7jQ
Aim: to inform young and early stage researchers (undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers) on global robotics trends and related emerging research and business opportunities. The speakers are academics – researchers with significant activity abroad and entrepreneurs with relevant activity in Greece.
The event is co-organized by: L. Kavraki (Rice U.) – Κ. Kyriakopoulos (NTUA) – A. Boudouvis (NTUA) – G. Pappas (U. Pennsylvania)
AGENDA
| Time (Athens) |
Topic | Speaker |
| 17:00 | Introduction | Lydia Kavraki Professor, Rice Univ |
| 17:15 | Aerial Robots
|
Kostas Alexis, Professor, NTNU |
| 17:30 | Dimitris Stefanakis, CEO & Co founder, UCANDRONE SA | |
| 17:45 | Autonomous Vehicles & Systems
|
Margarita Chli, Professor, ETH Zurich |
| 18:00 | Katerina Fragkiadaki, Assis. Prof., Carnegie Mellon | |
| 18:15 | Human-oriented Robotics | Panos Artemiadis, Assoc. Prof., Univ. Delaware |
| 18:30 | Agricultural Robots | Stavros Vougioukas, Professor, UC Davis |
| 18:45 | Industrial Robots | Evangelos Theodorou, CEO, Theodorou Group |
| 19:00 | Marine Robots | Michael Triantafyllou, Professor, Director MIT, Sea-Grant Program |
| 19:15 | Summary & Conclusions | George Pappas, Professor, Univ. Pennsylvania |