Houston, Texas March 10/11, 2005 Oliver Brock

Sense of Urgency Japan: $30 billion over 5 years Korea: major national priority Europe: several large research initiatives Industry: Honda, Sony, Toshiba, … In the US: –arguably leadership in several areas –lack of integrated research initiatives

Questions we would like to answer How should integrated research efforts be structured? What are critical technology milestones? What are important applications? How should funding agents get involved? How to get industry involved? Safety, Ethics, Social Implications

Work Turing Test A robot passes the Work Turing Test if it can carry out any set of instructions by autonomously performing physical work such that the resulting state of the world is indistinguishable from the one which would result from a cooperative, capable, non- expert human carrying out the same instructions.

Areas Platforms and Intl. Initiatives (Rob Ambrose) Grasping and Manipulation (Rod Grupen) Control and Representation (Vijay Kumar) Perception (Greg Hager) Embodiment (Ken Salisbury) Teaching, Learning, Developmental Programming (Stefan Schaal) Reasoning

Program for Today 8:30–9:15Platforms and International Initiatives 9:15–10:00Grasping and Manipulation 10:00–10:30Coffee Break 10:30–11:15Control and Representation 11:15–12:00Perception 12:00–13:00Lunch 13:00–13:45Embodiment 13:45–14:30Teaching and Learning 14:30–15:00Coffee Break 15:00–15:30Goals Discussion 15:30–17:30Break-Out Groups 18:00Departure for Dinner

Program for Tomorrow 8:00–10:00Plenary Session 10:00–10:30Coffee Break 10:30–12:00Break-Out Groups 12:00–13:00Lunch 13:00–14:15Plenary Session 14:15–14:30Closing Remarks 14:00–14:30Coffee Break 15:00–17:30NASA Tour

Break-Out Sessions 1.Identify Scribe 2.In the context of integration with other components, identify solutions, recommendations, etc. (PostIt Pads) 3.Make 2–3 slides for plenary session 4. notes of break-out session to