Amit Kumar Pandey

Amit Kumar Pandey, Chief Scientist , Aldebaran Robotics, A-Lab Paris, France

Dr. Amit Kumar Pandey is Chief Scientist at Aldebaran(Robotics) SoftBank Group, Paris, France, serving as the scientific coordinator (R&D) of the collaborative projects. Earlier for 6 years he worked as researcher in Robotics and AI at LAAS-CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Toulouse, France. His Ph.D. thesis titled Towards Socially Intelligent Robots in Human Centered Environment, is the second prize winner (tie) of the prestigious Georges Giralt Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis in Robotics in Europe, awarded by euRobotics(the European Union Robotics Community). He obtained his MS by Research from IIIT-Hyderabad, India and B.Tech. formJIIT, Noida. Among other responsibilities, he is the coordinator of Socially Intelligent Robots and Societal Applications (SIRo-SA) topic group of euRobotics, and active contributor in the Multi-Annual Roadmap of euRobotics, which aim to shape the future of robotics in Europe in collaboration with European Commission (EC). Recently, he has been awarded with the PravasiBihariSammanPuraskar 2014, for science, technology and education category, by the Chief Minister of Bihar.

Title: "Some major European Union Projects on Socially Intelligent Robots and the Societal Applications: R&D Challenges and Results so far"

With significant advancements in robotics, now the robots are beginning to coexist and work with us, to assist and accompany us, and to interact, play, learn and teach. Time has arrived, when social robots are getting deployed or available for practical purposes in homes, stores, and public places. However diverse the applications might be, the common requirement is that such robots, beyond their short term engaging effect due to novelty, should actually be able to establish long term social relations with human and with individuals, by behaving in socially expected and accepted manners. For this, Human-Robot Interaction and Social Intelligence, being the underlying mechanisms for reasoning, play crucial roles. These are also prominent from commercial perspective of exploitation of social robots. The talk will emphasize on these aspects, point some of the European Union projects, the R&D challenges and needs, and illustrate some of the applications, targeted scenario and use cases, which are getting addressed by the robotics community.

Email:
akpandey@aldebaran-robotics.com
amit.kr.pandey@gmail.com

Websites:
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http://in.linkedin.com/in/amitkrpandey