“A Research Roadmap for Robotics in Manufacturing and Automation”
9am - 5pm, June 17, 2008
Westin Arlington, Washington DC
Co-Chairs:
Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Vijay Kumar, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Jeff Trinkle, RPI
Introduction
This one-day workshop will 1) identify a focused set of major U.S. research goals for robotics related to manufacturing and automation, and 2) develop a roadmap for achieving these research goals in the coming decade. The workshop will include American leaders in academia, industry and government. Although 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. Highlights from the workshop may be discussed at the U.S. Congressional Caucus on Robotics in Washington, DC on June 18, 2008.