Program with slides

 

Time Talk
8:30- 8:40 Opening
8:40 – 9:10 Talk 1: Underactuated Hand Exoskeleton
Jumpei Arata (Kyushu University)
9:10 – 9:40 Talk 2: Human Motor Performance in Robot-Assisted Surgery
Allison Okamura (Stanford University) [slides]
9:40 – 10:10 Talk 3: Approaching human hand dexterity through highly biomimetic design
Zhe Xu (Yale University) [slides]
10:10 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 Talk 4: Object Manipulation with Anthropomorphic Robot Arm
Koh Hosoda (Osaka University)
11:00 – 11:30 Talk 5: A neural basis of hand muscle synergy
Kazuhiko Seki (National Institute of Neuroscience)
11:30 – 12:00 Short talks from presenters of poster session
12:00 – 13:00 Poster session
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30 Talk 6: Dynamic Manipulation based on thumb opposability
Ryuta Ozawa (Ritsumeikan University)
14:30 – 15:00 Talk 7: Robust grasping and manipulation against uncertainty of sensing information: One of applications of thumb opposability based controller
Kenji Tahara (Kyushu University)
15:00 – 15:30 Talk 8: Interface between Robotics and Digital Human
Mitsunori Tada (AIST)
15:30 – 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 – 16:20 Talk 9: Planning Dexterous Dual-arm Manipulation
Kensuke Harada (Osaka University)
16:20 – 16:50 Talk 10: Robot Dexterity the non-Anthropomorphic Way
Alberto Rodriguez (MIT) [slides]
16:50 – 17:20 Talk 11: Hand structure and dexterity
Tetsuyou Watanabe (Kanazawa University) [slides]
17:20 – Closing