We are very excited to have an all star line up of keynote speakers for ARSO 2017: (1) Ruzena Bajcsy, Director Emerita of Citrus at the University of California at Berkeley and co-founder of the renown GRASP laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania , (2) Sabine Hauert, Professor of Swarm Robotics at the University of Bristol, TED talk speaker, and expert in science communication, (3) Mady Delvaux, member of the European Parliament and advocate of increasing digital competences in education systems, and (4) Alan Manning, a renowned UK labour economist and professor of the London School of Economics.

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The 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2017)

The IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO) will take place in Austin, Texas, during March 8-10, 2017. ARSO is a single track workshop featuring talks in diverse scientific, health, industrial, social, innovation, security areas and more. The series started in Nagoya in 2005, and traveled through Beijing (2006), Hsinchu (2007), Taipei (2008), Tokyo (2009), Seoul (2010), Half Moon Bay, CA (2011), Munich (2012), Tokyo (2013), Evanston (2014), Lyon (2015), and Shanghai (2016). Participants will be world class robotic research scientists, social, economic and technology thinkers, innovators, investors and federal agency personnel. ARSO’s topics range from traditional Robotics technologies, innovation, socio-economic aspects, but also psychological and philosophical aspects of Human Robot Interaction. The workshop, ARSO 2017, will overlap on its last day with the famed South by Southwest (SXSW 2017) conference of Austin, featuring a powerful interactive festival with cutting-edge talks in topics highly connected to ARSO. A mix panel ARSO-SXSW is currently being organized as part of both events for Friday March 10.

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