FONDAZIONE GIANNINO BASSETTI

Arrivano i robot

Fra luglio e agosto la roboetica è stata più volte protagonista sulle pagine dei giornali e sui siti web. Diversi robot dalle fattezze umane o somiglianti ad animali sono giunti a un livello di sviluppo tale da far notizia anche per un pubblico di non esperti: occorre quindi interrogarsi per tempo sulle possibili conseguenze di questa innovazione. - Leggi 

The mechanization of Empathy in Health Care - 2. Takanori Shibata

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. - Leggi 

Report I - Communication Robots ATR

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. - Leggi 

Artificial Empathy: a research diary.

Today's sciences of the artificial extend all the way to the domain of emotions. The recent re-inclusion of the emotional dimension within cognition, in the scientific trend that considers 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. - Leggi 

The fourth global iSummit Centre in Sapporo, Japan

The fourth global iSummit will be held at the Sapporo convention centre in Sapporo, Japan from 29 July to 1 August, 2008. iCommons in association with Digital Garage, Creative Commons Japan and the City of Sapporo will bring together pioneers of the free Internet from over 60 countries around the world. - Leggi 

Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 2)

Seconda parte dell'intervista a Sophie Houdart realizzata al Centre Culturel International di Cerisy-La-Salle: "abbiamo discusso dei molti collegamenti tra l'etnografia della scienza e l'innovazione responsabile". - Leggi 

Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 2)

The second part of the Interview with Sophie Houdart: "we debated on the many links between the ethnography of science and the interrogation on responsible innovation". - Leggi 

Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 1)

In questa intervista a Sophie Houdart realizzata al Centre Culturel International di Cerisy-La-Salle, abbiamo discusso dei molti collegamenti tra l'etnografia della scienza e l'innovazione responsabile. Il lavoro di Sophie Houdart mette in luce molte importanti categorie, quella del fatto e quella dell'evento, l'idea di una responsabilità morale dello scienziato per il tipo di oggetti che crea nel laboratorio, e la consapevolezza da parte degli scienziati della rilevanza del loro lavoro per la società. - Leggi 

Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 1)

In this interview to Sophie Houdart taken at the Cerisy Cultural Centre, we debated on the many links between the ethnography of science and the interrogation on responsible innovation. The work of Sophie Houdart brings to the fore many important categories, that of fact and that of event, the idea of a moral responsibility of the scientist for the kind of "objects" he/she creates in the laboratory, and the scientist's awareness of the relevance of their work for society at large. - Leggi