“A Research Roadmap for Medical and Healthcare Robotics”
June 19-20, 2008
Westin Arlington, Washington DC
Co-Chairs:
Allison Okamura, Johns Hopkins University
Maja Mataric’, University of Southern California
Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech
Introduction
This one-and-a-half-day CCC/CRA sponsored workshop will (1) identify a focused set of major US research goals for medical and healthcare robotics, and (2) develop a roadmap for achieving these research goals in the coming decade. The workshop will include US leaders in academia, industry, and government. Although the US robotics research community is highly diversified, analogous efforts in Europe and Japan to reach consensus and develop unified research roadmaps for their regions have been extremely successful in creating new partnerships and attracting major research funding. Results of this workshop will be presented to US government agencies.