“A Research Roadmap for Domestic and Professional Service Robotics”
August 7-8, 2008
San Francisco, CA
Co-Chairs:
Oliver Brock, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bill Thomasmeyer, Tech Collaborative
Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech
Introduction
This two-day workshop will
- identify a focused set of major U.S. research goals for Domestic and Professional Service Robotics, and
- develop a roadmap for achieving these research goals in the coming decade.
The workshop will include leaders from the U.S.A. in academia, industry, and government. Even though the American 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. The results of this workshop will culminate in a report for the US Congress.