The Future of Community and Mobility Week
Integration of the real & digital worlds
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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2025.05.17[Sat]
13:30 ～ 15:30
(Venue Open 13:00)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'How will the integration of real and digital realms affect community & mobility? (Social participation through avatars/humanoids)'
Cast
Moderator
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Professor of Department of Systems Innovation, Osaka University, Visiting Director of ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories
Visiting Director of ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories His research interests are interactive robotics, avatar, and android science. Geminoid is an avatar android that is a copy of himself. In 2011, he won the Osaka Cultural Award. In 2015, he received the Prize for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He was also awarded the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award in Dubai in 2015. Tateisi Award in 2020.
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Masahiko Inami, Ph.D
Special Advisor to the President for The University of Tokyo, Deputy Director / Professor for Advanced Science and Technology
Masahiko Inami, Ph.D.
Special Advisor to the President for The University of Tokyo, Deputy Director / Professor for Advanced Science and Technology
Dr. Masahiko Inami took up his current position as professor at the University of Tokyo after working at the University of Electro-Communications and Keio University.
His interests include “JIZAI body editing technology,” the Augmented Human, and entertainment engineering.
He has received several awards, including TIME Magazine’s “Coolest Invention of the Year” award and the Young Scientist Award and Research Category Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT).
He is also a director of the Information Processing Society of Japan, a director of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, and a member of the Science Council of Japan.
His latest book is called “Theory of JIZAI Body" (Springer, 2023).
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Giulio Sandini
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Unit
Giulio Sandini is Founding Director of the Italian Institute of Technology where in 2006 established the department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences. As Assistant Professor at the Scuola Normale in Pisa and Visiting Researcher at the Neurology Department of the Harvard Medical School he investigated visual perception, sensorimotor coordination in humans and technologies for Brain Activity Mapping to study children with learning disabilities. In 1996 he was Visiting Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Lab of MIT.
As a professor of bioengineering at the University of Genova in 1990 he founded the LIRA-Lab (Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics) which, with a focus on developmental robotcs, was to become the birthplace of a family of humanoid robots including the “open source” iCub platform which, designed within the EU-funded collaborative project RobotCub, has later become a reference humanoid platform of the Italian Institute of Technology.
Giulio Sandini research activity is characterized by an engineering approach to the study of natural intelligent systems with a focus on the design and implementation of embodied artificial systems to investigate the development of human perceptual, motor and cognitive abilities.
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Miwako Doi
Auditor, Nationatil Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Vice President for Data Strategy and Co-Creation, Tohoku University Executive Director, NARA Institute of Science and Technology
She received her B.E. and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in 1977, 1979 and 2002 from the Univ. of Tokyo. She joined Toshiba in 1979 and has been a researcher of human interface technology and involved in developing a portable Japanese word processor, a machine translation system, a CG chip for video games, a pedestrian navigation system for mobile phones, and so on over 35 years.
She is an invited professor of Osaka University, Guest Professor of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Guest Professor of Osaka University of Arts, Sub Project Director of Moonshot Goal1 and others.
She got 2８prizes: the Grand Prize of Tateishi Prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Award of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Achievement Award, the Society Activity Contribution Award, the Best Author award from the Information Processing Society of Japan, a prize of National Commendation for Invention, and so on. She authored and co-authored 13 books, over 300 patents, over 300 technical papers on multimedia information system, human interface design, and so on.
She had been members of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism - Transport Safety Commission, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Independent Administrative Agency Accuracy Evaluation Committee, Information and Communications Council Committee, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - University Establishment and Corporation Committee, Science and Technology Policy Council Committee, and so on.
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Cecilia Laschi
Provost's Chair Professor, National University of Singapore
Cecilia Laschi is Provost’s Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, Director of Advanced Robotics Centre (ARC) and Co-Director of CARTIN – Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology and Innovation. She is on leave from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy, The BioRobotics Institute. She graduated in Computer Science at University of Pisa and received a Ph.D. in Robotics from University of Genoa. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
Cecilia Laschi is best-known for her research in soft robotics, an area that she pioneered and contributed to develop at international level. She uses a bioinspired approach starting from the octopus as a model for robotics. She explores marine applications of soft robots and their use in the biomedical field, specifically in eldercare.
She is Editor-in-Chief of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics and Specialty Chief Editor of Soft Robotics in Frontiers in Robotics & AI. She is Editorial Board member of Science Robotics, IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, International Journal of Robotics Research, and the Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents (IRAA) Series of MIT Press. She serves as evaluators for the EC (incl. ERC programme), HFSP and national research agencies.
She is IEEE Fellow and member of AAAS, I-RIM (Italian Institute of Intelligent Machines) and GNB (Italian National Group of Bioengineering). She is member of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS), where she was elected twice as AdCom member and co-founded the Technical Committee (TC) on Soft Robotics. She founded and chaired the 1st IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) in 2018, serving now in its Steering Committee. She was Co-Chair of Gordon Research Conference on Robotics 2024 and Program Chair of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Systems – IROS in 2018 and in 2024. She co-founded the spin-off company RoboTech, in edutainment robotics.
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The Future of Community and Mobility Week
Integration of the real & digital worlds
-
2025.05.17[Sat]
13:30～15:30
(Venue Open 13:00)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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