If you missed any part of We Robot 2021, or you just want to enjoy it again, you’ll be pleased to know we’ve got recordings of the sessions available on line. If you want to read the paper before hearing the discussion (highly recommended!) see our program page for links to everything. Recording of Welcome […]
#WeRobot had a great Workshop day; now the heavy lifting begins. See the Program page for the next two days’ schedule and for links to all the papers, demos, and more. Our conference software allows a healthy back-channel discussion, and this was in full form yesterday–expect even more today.
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Looking behind the curtain: What robots can (and cannot) do and how that influences the types of policies that can (and cannot) be written Bill Smart and Cindy Grimm will lead this workshop session at 11:00am on Thursday, September 23rd at #werobot. Machine learning is <gasp> just a glorified spreadsheet. Robots do not (and will […]
At We Robot we ask (and expect) that everyone reads the papers scheduled for Days One and Two in advance of those sessions. (The Workshops do not have advance papers.) In most cases, authors do not deliver their papers. Instead we go straight to the discussant’s wrap-up and appreciation/critique. The authors respond briefly, and then […]
Roel Dobbe and Thomas Gilbert will present their paper, Autonomous Vehicles Fleets as Public Infrastructure, on Saturday, September 25th at 11:30am at #werobot 2021. Madeleine Clare Elish will lead the discussion. The promise of ‘autonomous vehicles’ (AV) to redefine public mobility makes their development political — across a variety of stakeholders. This politics may not be obvious. In […]
Charlotte Tschider will present her paper, Prescribing Exploitation, on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot 2021. Michelle Johnson will moderate the 4:30pm – 5:30pm panel on Health Robotics. Patients increasingly rely on connected wearable medical devices that use artificial intelligence infrastructures and physical housing that directly interacts with the human body. Many folks who have traditionally relied […]
Kelly Bergstrand, Jess Findley, Christopher Robertson, Marv Slepian, Cayley Balser, and Andrew Woods will present their paper, Diverse Patient Perspectives on the Role of AI and Big Data in Healthcare, on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot 2021. Michelle Johnson will moderate the 4:30pm – 5:30pm panel on Health Robotics. Artificial intelligence and big data (AIBD) are being used to find […]
Alyssa Kubota, Maryam Pourebadi, Sharon Banh, Soyon Kim, and Laurel D. Riek will present their paper, Somebody That I Used to Know: The Risks of Personalizing Robots for Dementia Care, on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot 2021. Michelle Johnson will moderate the 4:30pm – 5:30pm panel on Health Robotics. People with dementia (PwD) often live at home with […]
Marc Canellas will present his paper, Anti-Discrimination Law’s Cybernetic Black Hole, on Saturday, September 25th at 3:00pm at #werobot 2021. Cynthia Khoo will lead the discussion. The incorporation of machines into American systems (e.g., crime, housing, family regulation, welfare) represents the peak of evolution, the perfect design, for our devotion to a colorblind society at the […]