Second appointment with the Consulting Committee
Pepper, Barthoc and Kabian are three robots who take care of the elderly, in Japan. In the land of the rising sun there are already many i interactive robots at the service of the people and that model of assistance is particularly appreciated by the Japanese. Other types of robots are already present in the operating rooms of many advanced countries, such as Italy. And many other robots, humanoids and otherwise, they will populate the lives of us human beings by collaborating in our work, eliminating many of the risks we run today and making many of our actions more effective.
This massive entry into the newspaper of collaborative technologies, "smart" machines with which we will be able to relate, requires an ethical reflection on their functioning right from the planning stage, in order to try to understand what the world of tomorrow will be like in which technology will play a fundamental role in providing assistance services for the person, treatment, company and to take care of many of our fellow men. And to do some centrality of the person the key value around which to develop new paradigms.
of the technological revolution in place and how to deal with it was discussed last Wednesday, March 22 in the main hall of the Trapezium in the seminar "Robotics between Medicine and Engineering", Organized by the Consulting Committee UCBM coordinated by prof. Sergio Berlardinelli of the University of Bologna and moderated by Prof. Paola Ricci Sindoni, philosopher and former professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Messina. Alongside her speech, the students and numerous university professors present listened to the passionate testimony of the prof. Paul Darius, world pioneer of robotics, professor emeritus of biomedical robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, where he founded and directed the Biorobotics Institute for years. At Ucbm he received an honorary degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2018.
"We are in the era of the fourth industrial revolution - has explained Paul Darius - that of the connection. We are all connected, as are all objects and all machines. This leads to some upheavals that were absolutely not foreseen until recently. Today, robots can actually touch people in an absolutely safe way."
"To the many questions, always necessary in order not to passively submit to the power of easy answers regarding the meaning of technological development – he recalled the Prof. Ricci Sindoni during his speech - they must not and cannot follow certain and pre-packaged solutions, but rather the need to train a critical and open spirit, capable of interpreting change".
On stage also the reports of teachers Maria Grazia De Marinis, Head of the Palliative Care Center "Together in Care", Francesca Cordella of the Advanced Robotics and Person-Centered Technologies Unit and of Giovanni Di Pino, professor of Human Physiology. At the end of the reports, coordinated by the philosopher of science Laura Corti, a group of female students UCBM he asked a few questions to Paolo Dario and the other speakers.
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