Current Challenges and Future Perspectives of
Emotional Humanoid Robotics

This workshop will cover both the basis of robotic technology (such as mechanical engineering, control engineering, materials engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, information engineering, and ergonomics) and many other disciplines, including medicine, physiology, psychology, and neuroscience, as well as sociology, law, and ethics. In particular:

• Human emotions & emotional humanoid robots;
• Understanding the human motor control and human perception, and their relationship with emotions;
• Novel paradigms of collaboration and interaction between robots and humans
• Trends in neuroscience and neuroscientific models relevant to the design of new emotional robotic systems
• Robotic platforms usable for validating and investigating neuroscientific models of emotions;
• Biologically-inspired sensory-motor co-ordination

The program will be selected to span both academic and industrial research.