4 December 2018 - How do we imagine the social robots of the near future? What characteristics must the collaborative robot that interacts with humans have? From the survey "The robot I would like" conducted byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in collaboration with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale the idea of the “Tech Care Hackathon” was born, a development and design marathon, involving students and researchers from the National Bioengineering Group and the Don Foundation Carlo Gnocchi, to design new artificial intelligence solutions for elderly care. The event is promoted by the Digital World Foundation, byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and by the National Bioengineering Group. Appointment at the University next Wednesday, December 5th.
How to build trust around social robotics? How to make bots more trustworthy and friendly? How important is their appearance? Robots should be efficient, versatile, powerful and controllable, preferably not anthropomorphic. “The robot I want” was imagined by over 1.600 students, in a survey carried out by theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma with the collaboration of Fondazione Mondo Digitale to probe the relationship of trust between digital natives and new generation machines. Young people were asked to identify hardware and software characteristics that hypothetical robots should possess and enabling techniques in different sectors of society and to make recommendations to companies for designing robots that inspire confidence.
With the company Tech Care Hackathon young people are now being actively involved. In the first major development and design marathon on ethics and robotics, students are asked to combine technical reliability and moral trust in the robot. Wednesday 5th December at the 'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma 100 high school and university students, will work from 9 to 20 on the creation of innovative solutions with the aim of countering the sense of loneliness and uselessness often experienced by the elderly, guided by the coaches of the Digital World Foundation, ofCampus Bio-Medico University and Don Foundation Carlo Gnocchi. The event will be moderated by Eugenio Guglielmelli pro-rector in search ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and animated by the interventions of the professors Vittoradolfo Tambone, Francesco Bruno, Giampaolo Ghilardi and Alfonso Molina, scientific director of the Digital World Foundation.
From the solution to promote and facilitate the person's social reintegration to the application designed to virtually connect the user with distant relatives and friends. The challenge is to take care (take care) of others by making the best use of not only professionalism and competence, but also creativity and humanity, to design functional, ecologically sustainable and "ethically beautiful" technological solutions, capable of improving the quality of life of patients and counteracting the sense of loneliness at the same time , exclusion and uselessness of the elderly, so opposed by Pope Francis who defined it as a "culture of waste".
