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Second part of the report on "technology and empathy in the context of health care" held in January. During the conference, Dr. Shibata presented essential aspects of the idea of a "Robot Therapy". Dr. Shibata is Senior Researcher at Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Sciences and Technology AIST (Tsukuba, Japan). He is the inventor of PARO.

Luisa Damiano http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/roboethics/2009/05/the_mechanization_of_empathy_i_1.html 2009-05-08T10:04:35Z 2009-06-17T11:17:07Z

On February 5, the "Springer Handbook of Robotics" by Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib has won two awards "PROS Awards 2008". Prose Awards are the American equivalent of the Oscar awards in the scientific and professional field. Inside, a chapter of Veruggio and Operto entitled "Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics" which discusses the basic principles of roboethics, new ethics applied to robotics and robot lemmas.

Tommaso Correale Santacroce http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/roboethics/2009/03/springer_handbook_of_robotics.html 2009-03-19T14:00:46Z 2009-03-20T08:57:44Z

On January 24, 2009 was held at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto an international workshop on "technology and empathy in the context of health care". Given the thematic orientation of this blog, the followsing report will concentrate on the second half of the workshop (centered on the relational implications of the therapeutic use of robots) that was organized around the interventions of two internationally recognised pioneers in the therapeutic use of robots.

Luisa Damiano http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/roboethics/2009/03/the_mechanization_of_empathy_i.html 2009-03-03T16:24:47Z 2009-05-09T14:54:21Z

These are the questions we use when we first interview a researcher.

Luisa Damiano http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/roboethics/2008/09/what_are_the_nature_and_the_pr.html 2008-09-19T08:18:16Z 2008-09-19T08:25:40Z

On January 26 we visited ATR (Advanced Telecomunication Research Institute International) a Japanese company of which some branches are specialised in the production of robots and whose headquarters are located close to Kyoto. Our interlocutor was Dr. Takayuki Kanda who gave us a a warm reception and detailed description of the research dedicated to in robots destined to social use.

Luisa Damiano http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/roboethics/2008/08/report_i_communication_robots.html 2008-08-04T07:58:03Z 2008-08-04T09:01:29Z

knowing as a form of doing - constructing, creating, fabricating - transforms our understanding of cognitive processes. In our we present the (relatively still brute) result of our encounters with researchers in the field of artificial agents and empathy, in order to receive comments and criticisms and initiate discussions from which we will profit, and where visitors of the Foundation's website can gain information and participate in shared reflection.]]>

Luisa Damiano http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/roboethics/2008/08/artificial_empathy_a_research_1.html 2008-08-03T14:09:46Z 2008-08-11T11:13:24Z