“A Research Roadmap for Emerging Technologies and Trends”

August 14-15, 2008
Snowbird, UT

AGENDA

Thursday, August 14
7:45 am Breakfast
8:45 am Introduction and workshop context
9:15 am Topic: Technologies - 6 x Identify key technology (provisional)

- Micro / Nano - Requicha
- Wireless - Voyles
- Actuators - Ruddy
- Human interfaces - Carignan
- AI/ML - Tedrake
- Planning - LaValle

10:15 am Break
10:35 am Group discussions - 5 most promising emerging technologies
11:35 pm Plenary synthesis on 10 promising emerging technologies
12:15 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Problems in robotics in need of new technologies - group discussion
2:45 pm Plenary Synthesis
3:30 pm Break
3:50 pm Identify major research directions - group discussions
5:15 pm End of Day 1
7:00 pm Joint dinner
Friday, August 15
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Recap from Day 1
8:45 am Plenary synthesis of major research directions
9:30 am Plenary discussion on main observations and document structure
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Beyond the workshops
11:15 am Wrap-up / summary
11:45 pm End of workshop